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Head teacher blog 8th September 2017
It is great to be back – no, really! It was a very busy summer at school with roofers, decorators, heating engineers, fencing contractors, carpet fitters and ground workers to coordinate, but we were ready on time thanks to lots of graft and teamwork! The site and admin team have had a particularly tough Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 21st July 2017
We are nearly at the end of the school year but things are still very busy! We have lots of classrooms and stock rooms to clear ready for a new roof for one third of the infant building over the summer and four teachers clearing their rooms ready for new staff to move in. Read More
Read newsHead teacher blog 14th July 2017
Sports Day was a great success I hear: sadly, I missed it as I was in meetings in Leeds all day. Many thanks to Miss Hutchinson and Mr Cooke for putting on such strong, inclusive events every year. On Tuesday we made three good new appointments to school as TAs: Andrea Birk-Telford, Brittany Kear and Read More
Read newsHead teacher blog July 7th 2017
It seems a long time ago since my last blog: a lot happens at Farfield in just a week. Over the weekend, we had our fabulous Camp-Over 2017. Hundreds and hundreds of people attended and we have had wonderful feedback. We raised well over £2000 for the PTA but equally importantly we had a great Read More
Read newsHead teacher blog 30th June 2017
What a week it has been! It began with our triumph in London at the glitzy TES School Awards and continued in that positive and enjoyable vein. We have confirmed some really strong Key Stage 1 assessment results with improvements in every measure at Year 2 and by far our best ever results in Read More
Read newsHead teacher’s blog 23rd June 2017
This week has been generally hot and sunny and Farfield often looks its best at this time of year. I have done two tours of the school for groups of new parents joining Reception for September and they appear to have been impressed and inspired as they have seen all that the school can Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 16th June 2017
It was wonderful to meet so many families at the Reception Open Evening on Thursday. The children seemed delightful and confident; I am sure that they will be a good cohort. As I was speaking to the families, I was very well supported by the large Foundation Stage team. This team is very well Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 8th June 2017
I have had a terrific end to the week supporting 6T on their residential at How Stean Gorge near Pateley Bridge. This is a super progression from the Y5 residential: abseiling 15m down into a steep gorge and then scrambling up river is surely a memory for a lifetime. As one parent commented on Read More
Read newsHead teacher blog 26th May 2017
It does seem that every northern community has been touched some way by the events in Manchester: events that have shown the very best and worst of humanity. We did have some Farfield families at the event but thank fully none of them were physically hurt. One of the victims was a friend of Read More
Read newsHead teacher blog 19th May 2017
Bees are important at Farfield: we have our own hives to help pollinate crops on the farm and they form the logo and learning ‘hive’ for the school. This week, bees have been centre stage with a very busy colony of bees taking over a bird box at the front of the infant conservation Read More
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