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Headteacher blog 6th July 2018
Last week’s ‘Friends of Farfield’ Camp-Over was a great success again and has raised £3000 towards another new minibus. This was a great community event and I am immensely grateful to Diane and her team of volunteers for their brilliant work. It is always great to see happy children playing freely for hours across Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 29th June 2018
I have been thinking about a sense of belonging this week. Year 4 have been creating shields with symbols of those things that mean most to them or that they feel define them. Icons relating to X Box and Playstation were quite prevalent, but so were family, friends, religion and clubs that the children Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 22nd June 2018
Year 2 went to Skelton Grange nature reserve this week and some of them found newts and a lizard: how fantastic is that? Our infants visit lots of nature reserves – Rodley and Denso Marston as well as Skelton Grange – but our juniors don’t. We will need to address that next year. The Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 15th June 2018
Happy Eid to all our Muslim families! This week our Y1 children have been doing their statutory phonics assessments and they have been doing really well. Thank you to all the staff for their collective efforts and to families who have clearly been practising at home. Well done! On Tuesday we welcomed all our Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog June 8th 2018
This week Year 6 have been on residential at How Stean Gorge and they have had an amazing time! The weather has been better this year and the children have had the challenge of abseiling, gorge scrambling, via ferrata, caving and canoeing. They have really enjoyed camping with their friends and they have been Read More
Read newsHeadteacher’s blog 25th May 2018
Year 5 have had a fabulous week in the Yorkshire Dales on their annual residential. They have been caving, mountain biking, walking amongst waterfalls and learning about rocks and rivers. Equally importantly, the children have been away from home, taking responsibility for themselves and their kit. The children have shown good determination and tenacity Read More
Read newsHead teacher blog 18th May 2018
This week has seen Y2 and Y6 completing SAT tests. They appear to have gone well and children have definitely worked hard. The teachers have set a healthy tone – do your best but don’t obsess about them – and most children will have actually enjoyed the week. Whatever the level of attainment shown, Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog May 12th 2018
Farsley is a wonderful place: close to great urban centres but also only a stone’s throw away from beautiful countryside. This was exemplified this week when Year 1 visited the hidden gem of Rodley Nature Reserve down in the Aire Valley. This wonderful place, run by super volunteers, has so much to offer and Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 4th May 2018
It has been an interesting week. I enjoyed working with colleagues from across the three Farsley schools as we observed maths lessons, looked at books and spoke with children at Springbank School. This is a lovely school and Miss Percival and her team are doing a great job in their very smart, newly-extended and Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog April 27th 2018
Obviously the highlight of the week was finally receiving our Ofsted report. As expected, it was very positive and the few areas picked out for further work were things that we were already aware of and trying to work on. Some of the most pleasing elements for me were the references to such a Read More
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