Farsley Farfield Primary School

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Headteacher blog 20th January 2017

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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

Head teacher blog 13th January 2017

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For headteachers, this week has been dominated by debates about cuts to funding and rising costs for Leeds schools. In the medium term, Leeds might be a slight ‘winner’ in the new National Funding Formula that will be implemented in a few years time. In the short term, however, all schools are facing a Read More

Head teacher blog January 6th 2017

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Happy new year! It is great to be back at school: this is a key term for learning and progress as the children are all well settled in their classes, their teachers know them well and we have a complete term without distractions such as Christmas or SATs. I have visited each classroom this Read More

Headteacher blog 9/12/16

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Christmas is dominating things at Farfield this week with eight children participating in the brilliant Town Hall Christmas Concert with the inspiring Leeds Youth Orchestra, two lovely performances of the Foundation Stage Nativity and lots of rehearsals for KS1 and KS2 performances next week. As well as marking Christmas, these performances are good for children’s Read More

Headteacher blog December 2nd 2016

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This is such a busy time of year: we have rehearsals and performances for our Christmas shows, end of term assessments, school evaluations, lots of trips, sporting fixtures and events such as the Farsley Lights Parade. It was great to see so many Farfield families supporting the parade again and special thanks go to Read More