Farsley Farfield Primary School

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Year 6 16.1.26

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Science We are close to completing our pictures which tell the story of the creation of Earth. We read a beautifully illustrated book called ‘The story of life – A first book about evolution’. The children were then tasked with retelling the story and have produced some excellent pieces of work. The finishing touches Read More

Y6 09.01.26 – Happy New Year!

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Welcome back to everyone this week! We have hit the ground running with lots of hard work and new topics to get our teeth into. Science – Evolution and Inheritance We have begun our new unit in science: evolution and inheritance. We began the term looking at the creation of life on Earth and Read More

Happy Holidays! Year 6 19.12.25

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We have come to the end of our first full term in Year 6 and what a wonderful term we have had. Well done to all of the children who have staggered to the end of the week which has been full of performances, fun and learning. Thank you for your cards and thoughtful Read More

Year 6 12.12.25

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Assessments The children have worked so hard this week and all tried their best in their assessments. We are so proud of how they’ve taken each test in their stride. Well done Year 6! We will use them to inform our next steps and booster groups in the spring term. PE This half term Read More

Year 6 05.12.25

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English This week in English we have written our letters as soldiers to family back home telling them about the Christmas Truce. The children worked hard to plan and write a letter full of interesting detail and emotion as well as use some of the language from the time. History From Zepplins to Sopwith Read More

Year 6 28.11.25

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English – The Christmas Truce This week we have begun to learn about an incredible moment in history: the Christmas Truce. We watched a very special video and talked about the emotions that the soldiers might have felt during this extraordinary day. Using some incredible websites we looked at some real-life letters from soldiers Read More

Year 6 21.11.25

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Science We have completed our unit on microorganisms and discovered the mouldiest place in the school! 6J found that wiping their bread in the farm room produced the most mould spores 6D found that wiping bread on the microphones in the hall produced the most. Special mention to Mrs Kroon for having an absolutely Read More

Year 6 14/11/25

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English This week the children have begun to learn the techniques of persuasion. We will be writing in role as a character from our text War Horse over the next few sessions and this week played around with language and grammar in order to get Mrs Dobkin and Miss Jones to extend break by Read More

Year 6 06.11.25

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Welcome back after what we hope was a restful half-term break. The children have had a good week in Year 6, cracking straight on with some great writing and some fun (and slightly gross) science experiments. English This week we have begun our new class text – War Horse – another text written by Read More

24.10.25

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Happy half-term The children have had a great start to Y6 and we have been very impressed with their efforts so far. A huge well done and time for a well-deserved rest. PE As part of our PE curriculum, 6D have been working on a dance linked to ‘Musical Theatre.’ Here is a video Read More