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Headteacher blog 28th February 2025
It has been a very positive first week back after half term: improving weather along with refreshed children and staff. We have had a busy week: with twilight training on a new phonics scheme as well as a governors meeting and a Schools Forum. Our Y4s did well at a city-wide skipping competition, our Read…
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Headteacher’s Blog 14/2/25
Happy Valentine’s Day! We have had some staff absence this week so I have taught a bit more than usual. I had a particularly delightful time teaching computer coding and French with most of 5KH on Wednesday afternoon. The children were all engaged and supportive of each other – and really good company. We Read…
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World 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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Headteacher blog 7/2/2025
We have had lots of trips this week, with Y4 at Murton Park near York experiencing life as an Anglo-Saxon and Year 1 visiting Leeds City Art Gallery. Visits like these are an important part of a rich curriculum, but they do take some organisation and incur costs. We do whatever we can to Read…
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Trading, Oobleck and other strange goings on in Year 5.
We have had a busy and extremely fun week in Year 5 this week. The children havew worked hard to finish the multiplication and division topic in Maths and have on the whole done well in their end of unit assessments. In Science we learnet about the difference between Newtonian and Non-Newtonian liquids. The Read…
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Headteacher blog 31st January
It has, in large part, been a lovely bright, crisp week at school. We are having lots of trips and visitors at the moment: Florence Nightingale in Y2 earlier this week, Y5 on two trips to Cartwright Hall for an excellent workshop about Early Islamic Civilisation, Y4 to Murton Park next week to be Read…
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Week ending 24.1.25
Hi all, Sorry for a bit of a late blog but I got a bit sidetracked this weekend. The chilkdren had another fantastic week of learning last week, impressing us with their effort and enthusiasm. We are now investigating ‘Materials and their Properties’ in science. This week the children enjoyed investigating the viscosity of Read…
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Final Saturday cross country event of the year
Farfield had full teams for all the races on the final Saturday cross country event of the season at Middleton Park on a cold January morning. Chair of Governors Ruth Fain has, along with Mrs Tomlinson, led the organisation and team management and was delighted with the efforts at the last event of the Read…
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Headteacher blog 17th January 2025
It has been a much better week: even feeling a bit of sunshine warmth whilst on lunchtime duty! It is so good to see children out playing again – although some lower KS2 children are like a magnet to the inevitable post-thaw mud! Y3 have all been to the pantomime this week, enjoying the Read…
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Headteacher’s blog 10th January 2025
Happy new year! It has obviously been such a cold start to the new school year but we managed to stay open. Well done to the site team for their efforts clearing and gritting the site as best we can. I am grateful to staff for their determination to get to work: a few Read…
