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Year 6 residential Day 1
We have had a super day with 6D on residential. The weather is glorious but not too oppressive as it is cool in the shade of the gorge (or in a cave). After an hour’s drive, we arrived at Coldstone Cut on Greenhow Hill. This amazing bit of public art overlooks a quarry and Read…
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Running for Maggies!
A dozen of our colleagues will be hoping that the hot weather breaks next weekend as they are set for a 10k run in support of Maggies and our colleague Natasha Loveridge. The group have raised over £2000 so far. If you would like to support them, please visit their Just Giving page to sponsor them.
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Headteacher blog 9th June 2023
This summer half-term is always busy and hectic and this week has been no exception. We have had Reception classes visiting Harlow Carr Gardens and a Year 3 class at The Armouries. We have had new parent meetings for Nursery and for Reception 2023-24, Relationships and Sex Education meetings, an important governors’ meeting and Read…
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Curriculum News June 2023
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Headteacher blog 26th May 2023
It has been a gloriously sunny week at Farfield and we have made the most of our beautiful grounds with playing and lessons across the whole site. I enjoyed an afternoon on the school farm with all the Y1 children, looking at the chickens and learning about how we look after them. The children Read…
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Headteacher blog 19th May 2023
Year 5 have enjoyed a fine week up in the Yorkshire Dales on residential this week: caving, mountain biking, walking and geography fieldwork. The children have shown good resilience and confidence tackling the activities. I am very grateful to the volunteer staff who work from 6am ’til gone midnight each day, to our volunteer Read…
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Headteacher blog 12th May 2023
It has been SATs week for Y2 and for Y6. This has hit the news as the Y6 papers have seemed a bit harder than usual: especially the reading paper. I do feel that there should be more accessible tests for those that are less high attaining: it is painful to watch those children Read…
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Year 5 residential
Year 5 are on residential w/b 15th June. Mr Harris, the headteacher will accompany the first class Mon-Wed. The children will be going to the Yorkshire Dales for walking, a river study, caving and mountain-biking.
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Headteacher blog 5th May 2023
It has been a less-than-satisfactory school week with a bank holiday and then partial closure due to strike action again on Tuesday. Nevertheless, we still managed to squeeze in some mountain biking for Y5 at Otley Chevin and a trip to Leeds on Thursday for 4HB. I postponed a further trip to Leeds today Read…
