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Headteacher blog 22nd April 2016
It is great to be back at school after the Easter break and the sunshine this week is so welcome. Farfield in the summer months is a wonderful place to be: this week there have been so many classes making use of the school grounds and Farfield Farm to enhance learning, and at playtimes Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 1st April 2016
At the end of this second term, we have been ‘taking stock’ and reviewing our successes to date. Flicking through children’s books, the progress is usually striking and self-evident. A senior leader from Priesthorpe came to visit this week to see the startling improvements in presentation since the autumn term; she went away impressed, Read More
Read newsHead teacher blog 18th March 2016
It is great to get positive feedback. This week, Leeds Children’s Services won a national award for excellence just 5 or 6 years after having previously been slated by OFSTED. This is great news and follows an exceptionally positive OFSTED inspection last year. I have been reading the overwhelmingly positive parental comments on mid Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 11th March
It has been a long but very positive week at Farfield having enjoyed two Parents’ Evenings as well as Reception’s Pyjama Story Evening. Almost every parental consultation went well: children are working hard, making pleasing progress and are happy in school. Hopefully, everyone could see the evidence for this in their child’s books. I Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 4th March 2016
We have celebrated World Book Day this week and, as usual, many of the children have come in fantastic book-related costumes! Many thanks for all the family support with this. Earlier this week I attended a headteacher conference and was required to present on an initiative in school that has shown a positive Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 26th February
In my opinion, the government’s education policies and practices are a shambles. This open letter sums up the dismay as regards the KS2 Year 6 assessments very well: https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/one-primary-teachers-open-letter-government-standards-expected-are Many of the concerns expressed about Year 6 here apply equally to Year 2 (and the expectations in the year groups in between). Furthermore, I do not Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 12/2/16
We have come to the end of an intense half term and I think all the children and staff are ready for a break. There has been so much flu and general ‘poorliness’ around; let’s hope the break can help everyone get well! It has been a busy week with Year 5 visiting the Read More
Read newsHead teacher blog 5/2/16
Star Wars came to Year 6 this morning! Desperate to enliven what might have been, frankly, a rather dull series of lessons on the use of active and passive verbs, the staff devised a morning on a Star Wars theme to deliver the learning in a much more engaging way. Some staff don’t need Read More
Read newsHead teacher blog January 29th 2016
It has been a very windy week at Farfield: the turbine has generated about £250 worth of electricity in the past month! Coat ‘parachutes’ have been very much in evidence at playtimes – some things don’t change from childhood to childhood… I showed some prospective Year 3 parents around yesterday and they were impressed Read More
Read newsHead teacher blog January 22nd 2016
I had the pleasure of accompanying class 2C on their trip to York’s Castle Museum on Thursday. The children were, as expected, delightful and inquisitive. It was a shock, however, that there weren’t any other schools at the museum throughout the whole day. At Farfield, we really value educational visits and I hope that Read More
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