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Headteacher blog 20 September 2019
It has been glorious at school this week and we have certainly enjoyed the weather. With the Climate Strikes in the news this week, we have discussed Greta Thunberg and listened to her messages in assembly with the older children. Greta famously travelled to New York by sailing boat and Y6 children this week Read…
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Headteacher blog Friday 13th September 2019
This school year has started very well and it was lovely to be on a sunny lunchtime duty today as the cricket nets opened, Mr beevers ran a cross country club and children were having a really active playtime generally across the breadth of the school grounds. A new member of staff commented on Read…
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Headteacher’s blog 6th September 2019
It is great to be back in school! We had a rush to be ready in the juniors as we have had new heating installed in almost all the classrooms and had to clear all the rooms. Sadly, our re-roofing project for the infants was postponed at the last moment and that work is Read…
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Another successful family session on the school farm
About 40 children and adults were on the farm this afternoon as we held our second family session this holiday. It was hot as we weeded and watered and harvested. Everyone got ‘stuck in’ and the children confidently tried a range of fruit and vegetables. We harvested some huge peppers that had a wonderful Read…
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Holiday family session on the school farm
On Monday 5th August we had a successful couple of hours with a group of families watering, weeding, planting and harvesting. Everyone got ‘stuck in’ and we had a bountiful harvest (despite forgetting to cut the kale). At the end we sat around and discussed each vegetable and families helped themselves to big bag Read…
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Head teacher blog 19th July 2019
And so we end another academic year at Farfield… It has been a successful year with good academic progress and outcomes and lots of successes across the school. There have been challenges too. On Wednesday we had a fantastic Leavers’ Show that was superbly personalised for and by our children. What shone out was Read…
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Headteacher blog 12th July 2019
We are approaching the end of the school year and it is very busy. End of year reports will go out on Monday along with SATs results and other statutory assessments for Reception and Year 1. This week Y4 have been on a trip to Horton in Ribblesdale, 5L have been to Malham, Nursery Read…
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Headteacher blog July 5th 2019
We had another fantastic PTA Camp-Over last weekend: the sun shone, for the most-part, and children and families played for hours on end. Many thanks and congratulations to all those that organised or that contributed to the event and those that were able to attend. The PTA made nearly £2500 profit but, more importantly, Read…
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Headteacher’s blog June 29th 2019
It has been a very busy week. The biggest event was the S Factor final for Rec-Y6 held on Friday. In front of a packed hall, each class’ champion scientist presented their investigation or demonstration to the team of three ‘real scientist’ judges. It was a great morning and all the children did really Read…
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Headteacher blog June 21st 2019
This week at school we have had Y6 moderators coming to see our writing. Flicking through the books, it is clear that there is so much fantastic writing in this cohort. Well done to our teachers and children for their sustained focus on this important part of the curriculum. This Y6 external moderation completes Read…
