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U11s training at Leeds United’s Thorp Arch 18.1.17
On Wednesday, Mr Cooke accompanied some children from the U11 football team for a day-long training camp at Leeds United’s Thorp Arch. The 6 boys took part in some focussed training drills in the morning and then in the afternoon they played a number of matches in a friendly mini-tournament. This training camp was in preparation for Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 20th January 2017
This week in school, we had an inspirational visitor: Evelyne Ninsiima, a community leader from rural Uganda. Evelyne came to our school to see our school farm and to talk to some Y6 children. Back in Uganda, she leads a charity that has started and runs a school, planted a million trees and promotes Read More
Read newsConsultation on Sex and Relationships Education
We are consulting on the proposed revised Programme of Study for Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) that is based on the model PSHE scheme from Islington Council that is being promoted by Leeds City Council. The policy is here: https://www.farsleyfarfield.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/FFPS-SRE-Policy-v7-Jan-2017.pdf The proposed Programme of Study is here: https://www.farsleyfarfield.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Sex-and-relationships-education-SRE-PoS.pdf The survey is now closed. Thank you Read More
Read newsSchool staff panto
If the children came home with strange tales of men in dresses, a wolf headmaster, a woman pretending to be a boy and a grisly finale involving an axe, it is strangely true. This morning there was a rough (and not very ready) performance of (Not so) Little Red Riding Hood as a traditional Read More
Read newsWhat a waste?
Over the course of this half term, all the Y2s will be visiting the warehouse and ‘Pay as you Feel’ supermarket of the Real Junk Food Project on the Richardshaw Lane industrial estate. The first group went on Friday and visited for about 45 minutes. It was a really interesting visit and we are Read More
Read newsBarclays providing great support for Farfield Farm again!
Just before half term, we had 15 brilliant volunteers from Barclays working on Farfield Farm repairing raised beds, building paths, recovering our rhubarb area and improving a couple of community plots. They worked SO hard and we are very grateful for their wonderful support. The bank generously provided £500 of investment and, thanks to Read More
Read newsNew Curriculum Newsletter published
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Read newsFarfield wins a PE award
Farsley Farfield Primary School won the Active Schools Leeds ‘Delivering High Quality Physical Education – Innovative Curriculum PE Award 2016’ at a glitzy ceremony last night at the John Charles Centre for Sport. The school was represented by David Cooke and Stuart Tiffany and they were presented their award by Olympic athletes Jack Laugher, Read More
Read newsFarm and Harvest 2016
We have had another successful year on the school farm. Regular farming sessions have now been extended down to Year 2 and the youngest children visit the farm too to help with sowing and harvesting. We hope that these farming sessions support our work on science but, more importantly, will provide the children with Read More
Read newsHarvest Festival 2016
The school hall was packed for another harvest festival yesterday. The harvest display looked impressive and was artistically arranged by Ms Howells, a Y4 group and Mr Catto. Many thanks for all the donations of food for St George’s Crypt: we know that it is always appreciated. We enjoyed singing and poetry reading from Read More
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