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Fabulous Easter Decorated Egg competition
We were overwhelmed with entries to our Easter Decorated Egg Competition with well over 100 submissions across the school. Thank you so much for your support! The imagination and skills shown were eggstremely impressive! Every child got a Highly Commended certificate. In each year group, there were runners-up and an overall winner. Lunch staff were…
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Enhanced SEND provision
After Easter, we are opening an in-house enhanced SEND provision aimed at infant children with Communication and Interaction needs, often autism. Further details below: 3
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Headteacher blog 27th March 2026
It has been the busiest week of the year for our school minibuses with two long trips down to South Yorkshire for Y2 classes to go to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park, and two long trips to beyond York for Viking days at Murton Park for Y4. Furthermore, our KS2 school councillors were taken to Leeds…
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2MW Visit Yorkshire Wildlife Park
What a fabulous day we have had today at Yorkshire Wildlife Park! Children had some close encounters with animals in our habitats workshop; holding African land snails and meeting hissing cockroaches and a royal python. We explored lots of the park and particularly enjoyed seeing the polar bears after learning about them before Christmas. Other…
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Debating and other Year 5 business
Good evening parents and carers, Well done to our Year 5 debating teams this week. After practise at school and becoming our finalists, seven children were selected to participate in a Leeds debating competition. They debated the motion: School uniform should be optional. Although they did not win, they all spoke eloquently and made strong…
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Headteacher blog 20th March
Eid Mubarak! Happy Eid to all our Muslim friends. Last week’s PTA iftar meal seemed to be a great success and a lovely community event. On Tuesday, the children enjoyed assemblies and book reading by TV celebrity George Webster. Over £500-worth of books were bought and we marked World Down Syndrome Day with odd socks…
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Headteacher blog 13th March 2026
“In like a lion….” Hopefully, the rest of that saying will come true later this month as we have endured a very windy week. We did keep the children in at break time on Thursday as winds easily exceeded 40mph and our risk assessment needs us to reduce numbers and time spent around the taller…
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Farfield one of the top schools in Leeds
The Yorkshire Evening Post has analysed the KS2 SATs results from 2025 and has declared Farfield joint 7th across our huge city for reading standards. There are over 220 primary schools in Leeds so this is quite an achievement! See the article here: https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/education/15-best-leeds-primary-schools-reading-skills-5623718?page=2 58% of our children last year achieved the ‘greater depth’ Read…
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World book day and other fun in Year 5
Hi all, We had another action packed week last week. Thursday was World Book Day and we had losts of fun. The children dressed up in a mixture of ways: as book characters, jobs and hobbies. Click here to see more photos of children and work from the day. Last week we had fun Read…
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Headteacher blog 6th March 2026
It has been a super week – helped by warmer, less wet weather that meant that children could play across the wider school grounds. This makes such a difference – lunchtimes have been fun. On Wednesday, Reception children and families enjoyed a bedtime story evening in the hall and cosy classrooms. We have had Read…
