Farsley Farfield Primary School

Head Teacher's Blog

Happy New Year!

11/01/2019 · No comments yet

Welcome back to school and a belated happy new year! This term began with a teacher training day around development of vocabulary. This was a really good session, led by a fabulous member of the local authority’s school improvement team. The staff seemed to be enthused by the suggestions and it is good to Read More

Headteacher blog 14 December 2018

14/12/2018 · No comments yet

This week there have been two charming Christmas performances in Nursery and Reception and on-going rehearsals for next week’s many performances amongst the older children. On Wednesday we had a successful Christmas Fair and our sincere thanks go to our fabulous PTA volunteers for all their hard work throughout the day (and beforehand) setting Read More

Headteacher’s blog 7/12/18

07/12/2018 · No comments yet

I have missed school this week as I have been largely working on secondment in Leeds.  It is interesting working across our huge, vibrant city with a wide range of partners: over 300 schools and academies, social work teams, the NHS and third sector. Working together is a strength in the city but brings Read More

Head teacher blog November 29th 2018

30/11/2018 · 2 comments

It has been quite a week – lots of events and an unexpected drama on Tuesday when we had a partial power failure in the infants building which resulted in us having to make over 320 packed lunches at very short notice! The Farfield team all pulled together and we got through a very tricky afternoon. Read More

Head teacher blog 23rd November

23/11/2018 · 1 comment

The weather has turned colder and more miserable and the winter sniffles have definitely arrived. More seriously, a local school has been heavily hit by influenza this week (more than half of Year 3 off school for example). Next week we have influenza vaccinations in our school for all those children up to Y5 Read More