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Headteacher blog 31st January
It has, in large part, been a lovely bright, crisp week at school. We are having lots of trips and visitors at the moment: Florence Nightingale in Y2 earlier this week, Y5 on two trips to Cartwright Hall for an excellent workshop about Early Islamic Civilisation, Y4 to Murton Park next week to be Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 17th January 2025
It has been a much better week: even feeling a bit of sunshine warmth whilst on lunchtime duty! It is so good to see children out playing again – although some lower KS2 children are like a magnet to the inevitable post-thaw mud! Y3 have all been to the pantomime this week, enjoying the Read More
Read newsHeadteacher’s blog 10th January 2025
Happy new year! It has obviously been such a cold start to the new school year but we managed to stay open. Well done to the site team for their efforts clearing and gritting the site as best we can. I am grateful to staff for their determination to get to work: a few Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 13th December 2024
It was lovely to see the nursery and Reception Nativity this week. It was a more ambitious production than the norm, with more speaking parts and more challenging songs. I think that they did very well and, as I said after Thursday’s performance, I think the band of angels were the best we have Read More
Read newsHeadteacher’s blog 6/12/24
The rain was torrential on Thursday evening and I saw fountains erupt from roadway drains on Cotefields Avenue. Once again, our infant hall flooded and we are mopping and sucking up water to get the space usable once more. Site staff were working until well into the evening. A blocked drain may have contributed Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 29th November 2024
It’s been such a busy week at Farfield with school trips, Farsley Lights Parade and our first Show Time event of the year. Children are also busy rehearsing for their Christmas Shows and nativity performances. Farsley Lantern Parade was a brilliant spectacle and community event, even making it onto Look North. Some of our Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 22nd November 2024
It has been a gloriously sunny but freezing cold week! The children enjoyed some snow-balling early on in the week but it was short-lived. Later on, ice collection was a favourite activity and an ice shop appeared on the field with tyre-fulls of frozen lumps ‘for sale’. The minibuses have been busy this week. Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 15th November 2024
It has been a really busy week again, with a full governing body meeting and lots of school tours: one of which was in the dark in the evening with no children – that’s a sales challenge! On one of the tours I was leading a group of prospective parents and children up to Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 8th November 2024
It has been an excellent first week of the half term including two very successful parents’ evenings. We also had children’s family photographs – a logistical nightmare, especially on a split site – and Y5 Bikeability training. We are enjoying the unseasonably warm and dry weather, with children still able to make full use Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 25th October 2024
It is the end of a long, eight-week half-term and everyone will be ready for a break. It has been a successful half term and I am pleased that the large number of new staff have all settled well and made a positive contribution already. I am in the season of tours for prospective Read More
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