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Headteacher’s Blog 24th November 2023
It’s been hard to keep up with the number of visits, visitors and events that the children have been enjoying over the past week or so: a trip to Temple Newsam, dance groups, football matches and events, accessible bowling, a sound workshop, cross country competition tomorrow, a World War 1 workshop on Monday and Read…
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Year 5 Blog 17.11.23
Good afternoon parents and carers, We have had another exciting and hard working week in Year 5. Amongst other things, we have begun rehearsals for the Christmas pantomime, which is very exciting! English In English we have been reading about Curiosity a Mars Rover. We are currently building vocabulary and skills ready to explain Read…
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Headteacher Blog 17th November 2023
We are doing a huge number of school tours at the moment which belies the data that tells us that there is a big drop in the birth rate. We don’t do ‘open days’ or evening events; every tour is an ‘ordinary day’ as I am confident that we will experience a happy, safe, Read…
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Farm Club manage to salvage some very late harvests
It may be November, but that hasn’t stopped Farm Club eking out some final harvests of the year. Before half term we harvested some green, unripe tomatoes and we ripened them in a sunny spot over half term. In the polytunnel, two young fig trees decided to ripen a big harvest of fruit despite Read…
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Headteacher Blog 10th November 2023
May I first wish everyone Happy Diwali if you are celebrating this weekend! It’s been a very busy week at Farfield with two parents’ evenings and two evening trips to the theatre – one of which was aborted! On Tuesday and Wednesday we had successful parents’ evenings although we very much prefer the in-person Read…
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Headteacher’s blog 27th October
This has been a tricky end to what has been a very long half-term. We have had to have our infant school car park dug up to work on the school’s three-phase electrical supply and we have had to contend with two days of kitchen closure and a further long power cut on Thursday Read…
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Headteacher blog 20th October 2023
It’s been a wet end to the week but a good one nonetheless. Year 3 enjoyed their Stone Age Day although it was much damper and muddier than last year. Life in those times will have been hard! Year 1 had two successful reading and phonics workshops, highlighting the importance given to the rapid Read…
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Headteacher Blog 13th October 2023
It has been a big week at Farfield: the publication of our Ofsted report, Harvest Festival and lots of sports and physical activity. The Ofsted report is very positive and uses words and phrases like vibrant, happy, ambitious, exceptional (twice), flourish, highly effective and confident. We are delighted to have received such a validating Read…
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New OFSTED report published
Following our inspection in September, Ofsted have now published their report for our school. Once again, we are strongly ‘Good’ and the report is effusive in its praise. Our school is described as ‘vibrant and happy’; our curriculum is ‘ambitious’ and ‘exciting’, with some of it being ‘exceptional’; all our children ‘flourish’ in our Read…
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Headteacher Blog 6th October 2023
It’s been warm but more autumnal this week. It is time to enforce the welly rule on the grounds for juniors as it is suddenly very wet and muddy in places. It is also important that all juniors have indoor shoes to change into. Provision for children with SEND is in the news this Read…
