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Headteacher blog 11th June 2021
It has been a lovely week at school – obviously, the warm, dry weather helps. It has been particularly heartening to see school trips restarting with Y4 visiting Murton Park this week to live like Vikings, and Years 1 and 2 visiting Rodley Nature Reserve and Skelton Grange Environmental Centre respectively next week. After Read…
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Headteacher blog May 28th 2021
This has been a week when some elements of school life have felt to be getting back to a more ‘normal’ feel but, at the same time, we have had a jolt of the new reality with two ‘bubbles’ bursting at a really bad time for the half-term holiday. The return to normality has Read…
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Headteacher blog 21st May 2021
“Rain, Rain, go away, Come again another day.” Actually, we have certainly all had enough of the rain this month; we should have the tennis courts out, not the wellies! The weather has caused us problems this week, leading to the truncation of some cycling activities and some difficult conditions across the site. Read…
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Headteacher blog 14/5/21
Eid Mubarak to all our Muslim families and colleagues! I hope that you have had a great time despite the current circumstances. This week I have been thinking about money: specifically, the school budget. We spent Tuesday modelling plans for this financial year and beyond and the bottom-line figure was better than we feared. Read…
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Headteacher blog 7/5/21
I am doing lots of school tours at the moment: new families with children due to start in September. The timing of the tour is quite significant as in the mornings we see lots of English and Maths whereas afternoon visits showcase a much wider curriculum. The children are clearly very settled now into Read…
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Headteacher Blog 30/4/21
It’s been a ‘blooming marvellous’ week at Farfield as the blossom dazzles and children have worked and played happily across the school. I have been doing lots of tours this week for parents of children that will be new to school in September 2021. Each set of parents that we have shown around seems Read…
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Headteacher blog 23/4/21
There are few better places to be than our school on a sunny day like today. The grounds look magnificent in the sunshine and the children are given lots of opportunities to enjoy them. It has been a pleasure giving tours this week to new families that have been allocated our school for next Read…
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Headteacher blog 1/4/2021
We have reached the end of a tough term. The debacle of the start of the term in early January seems such a long time ago and it has been a difficult time. Staff have worked hard to try to maintain as close to normal as possible, but school isn’t quite the same in Read…
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Headteacher blog 26/3/21
Children have been completing some assessments this week, helping us to analyse where there may need to be some intervention and the extent to which children are reaching age-related expectations academically. We will have to help some children fill some gaps, but we also want to restore a rich, broad curriculum and focus on Read…
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Headteacher blog 19/3/21
It has been our second full week back after lockdown, and some things are becoming clearer. Most children seem fine: simply happy to be back at school. For some children, however, anxieties have heightened. These are typically children who were known to us for related reasons previously. Standards don’t appear to have dropped off Read…
