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Camp-Over 2025 is a hot one!
We had 80 families camping and about 750 on-site for last weekend’s PTA Camp-Over. We think that the first was in 2014 and we missed a couple due to COVID, so this was probably our 10th event: the biggest and probably one of the best! We had a brilliant time in our water fight Read More
Read newsJunior Sports Day 2025
We had an exciting Junior sports day this week with every child participating in their own way. A big crowd of parents and carers cheered them on and were treated to lots of close races and impressive performances. Well done to all the staff for great organisation and such a smooth, well-run event that Read More
Read newsOutstanding Key Stage 2 Y6 SATs results
Our Y6 children have smashed their statutory SATs again! Last year, we were in the top 5% of schools for combined Greater Depth in Reading, Writing and Maths. This year, our writing was good but wasn’t as strong as 2024; however, Greater Depth in Reading, Maths and Grammar was outstanding! Our average scaled scores Read More
Read news6J residential Day 3
Just a quick blog to finish the week… The children had their final activity this morning. Miss Jones’ group went caving. I believe that almost all of them did the ‘Cat’s Crawl’ which is very challenging. Most ended up in Eglin’s Cave. Mr Harris’ group and Mrs Du Preez’s group did the via ferrata Read More
Read news6J residential Day 2
The children slept well (they might say they didn’t) and didn’t get up too early. The weather was gorgeous ‘first thing’ and has been ok, if a bit breezy, all day. The breeze may have helped reduce midges initially this evening. Each group has done two activities today. Groups 2 and 3 did canoeing Read More
Read news6J residential Day 1
We are having a very good residential so far. We drove through rain but it held off as we climbed up to Coldstone Cut outside Pateley Bridge. We looked down into the quarry and reminded ourselves about the formation of the limestone 300 million years ago. We arrived at How Stean Gorge shortly after Read More
Read newsNew Deputy Head teacher/SENDCO for school
As you may know, Deputy Headteacher/SENDCo Dan Hemming has been successful in securing the headship at Cookridge Holy Trinity Primary School for September. Lucy Swindlehurst, the former SENDCo, has been working with us part time this year as she moves to a new career outside of education but in a related field. Lucy’s last Read More
Read newsFarfield hosts live-streamed assemblies to tens of thousands
This week our school was turned into a TV studio for two live-stream assemblies for Network Rail around railway safety. Nearly 170,000 children across the country were logged in to watch the professionally-produced assemblies, with 6D and then 2BW as the audience and participants. The assemblies had good safety messages but were also a Read More
Read newsWorld Book Day ‘Read Aloud Your Way’ Competition winners
We had over 150 entries into our video competition, showcasing brilliant reading and story-telling from Nursery up to Year 6. Class 6D, in particular, did really well in terms of entries. Thank you for all the entries: the standard was very high and we were delighted with the quality of the reading. There were Read More
Read newsWorld Book Day plans
It is World Book Day after half term at the beginning of March. Details of plans are below.
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