Farsley Farfield Primary School

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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

Year 6 17.10.25

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Geography We are coming to the end of our topic on Natural Disasters and the children this week have been learning about different types of volcano. They produced some creative presentations, posters and websites to explain their research which we were really impressed with. We have also been completing some work around UK geography Read More

Year 6 10.10.25

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Kensuke’s Kingdom – The Jellyfish This week we became Kensuke and rewrote a chapter of the book from his point of view. The children worked incredibly hard on their writing trying hard to include tension and description. In grammar we have tried hard to use a semi-colon to join independent clauses – see if Read More

Year 6 03.10.25

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English This week, we became the main character of our class text: Kensuke from Kensuke’s Kingdom. We used drama to get into role and think carefully about the emotions which Kensuke experienced during the chapters we have read this week. Here are some pictures We will be writing as Kensuke and aiming to improve Read More