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Tag Rugby 17th April 2018
This afternoon, I had the pleasure of taking ten Y6 pupils to a Tag Rugby Tournament at Stanningley Sports & Amateur Rugby League Club. The tournament was used as the qualification route to the City Finals and, as such, there was fierce competition. Farfield were placed in a group with Holy Family, Lowtown and Coop Read More
Read newsFarfield volunteer is Yorkshire’s Unsung Hero!
Mandy Parker is a former governor of our school and our most generous and longest-standing volunteer. She runs an after-school cycling club at school (and has done for over a decade!) and is an important part of our junior PE curriculum. So many of our children wouldn’t be able to ride a bike if Read More
Read newsY6 Sportshall Athletics
Yesterday’s ‘Sportshall Athletics’ competition for YR6 was a great event and I think all the children had a brilliant time. We were phenomenal in the races, coming 1st or 2nd in 10 of the 12 races. However, we had mixed success in our field events with some stand-out individual performances but just not quite enough strength in depth Read More
Read newsNational Fitness Day 27th September 2017
Some pictures from the group of Y3, Y4 and Y5 children who took part in the National Fitness Day event at John Charles Centre for Sport last week. The children learned a Samba routine and then performed it ‘en masse’. They then had an active hour where they worked with Leeds Rhinos and our ‘Schools Games Organiser’ – Read More
Read newsTES Schools Award winner – Healthy school of the year
On Friday evening, a team of staff (and Tom Booles, a parent who has supported volunteering and fundraising through his employer Barclays Bank) attended the TES Schools Award ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London where Farfield were shortlisted in one of the categories for a national award. The evening, hosted by Julian Clary, Read More
Read newsGirls football tournament
Our under 12s girls football team took part in a tournament with 50 other teams yesterday at the John Charles Centre for Sport. This was a huge event that took a lot of organising! The girls did amazingly well, playing a total of 4 games, loosing two and winning two. Well done to all Read More
Read newsYear 6 residential 2017
Year 6 had a phenomenal time on their residential to How Stean Gorge:
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Y6 have been having a great time on the Y6 residential to How Stean Gorge. For the full story: http://ff6w.primaryblogger.co.uk/pe/6t-residential-day-1/
Read newsYear 5 residential in the sun
Year 5 have had a great week in the Yorkshire Dales at Gearstones Lodge. They have learnt about rocks and rivers, found out about the building of the magnificent Ribblehead viaduct, been on a waterfall and night walk and taken part in strenuous caving and mountain biking activities. The weather was glorious (a bit Read More
Read newsFarfield are flying high!
Thanks to Mr Cooke winning a cycling competition, 12 lucky year 6 children got to have a go on the zip wire at Herd Farm on Friday afternoon last week. The children got kitted out in harnesses and flew over 150 feet through the air down the beautiful hillside. See the photos and videos below.
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