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World Book Day ‘Read Aloud Your Way’ Competition winners
We had over 150 entries into our video competition, showcasing brilliant reading and story-telling from Nursery up to Year 6. Class 6D, in particular, did really well in terms of entries. Thank you for all the entries: the standard was very high and we were delighted with the quality of the reading. There were Read…
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Headteacher blog 7/3/25
It has been such a good week! Dry weather and sunshine makes such a difference and it is great to see the children enjoying themselves across the whole school grounds at break times. This week has been dominated by World Book Day. Reception had a very successful bedtime reading event on Wednesday evening. The Read…
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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…
