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Headteacher blog 22nd March 2019
It has been lovely to see the sun shine again this week and our school grounds bustling with activity at playtimes and lunchtimes. There has be plenty of other ‘activity’ this week too. On Monday half of the Year 4 cohort took part in a skipping festival at West Leeds Academy, on Tuesday we took Read…
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Headteacher blog 15th March 2019
It has been quite a wild and windy week. Traditionally, this has caused a headache for teachers as children bring their loud, outdoor voices into the classroom. In fact, things have remained very calm and peaceful inside the school with one teacher having to encourage their children to actually talk more as I visited Read…
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Special visitor to school
Lisa from The Children’s Heart Surgery Fund came to speak to the children about the charity. Lisa told us about what the money goes to support. We watched a video about a young girl who had had heart surgery. ‘Katie Bear’ came in to the hall and we presented a school cheque – a total of £462.34 Read…
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Head teacher blog March 1st 2019
It is the first day of spring and the children have enjoyed the fine, dry weather and being able to play on the grass. The temperatures have been ridiculously unseasonal, and children in Year 5 children studying plant reproduction this week have seen bees all over a tree near the farm whose pollen-filled catkin Read…
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Third successful trip as part of Show Time club
On Saturday night, the 30 children in Show Time club had their third trip of the school year. Following ballet and a reading of War Horse last term, this time it was a classical concert at Leeds Town Hall playing music from the Harry Potter films. Performed by the world-renowned Halle Orchestra, the evening Read…
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Head teacher blog February 15th 2019
Thursday was the day of love and I saw so much to love in school on that day. The morning consisted of a Farsley Learning Alliance review of writing across our school with the heads of the other Farsley primary schools, their leaders and our School Improvement Advisor joining with our own senior leadership Read…
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Headteacher blog 8th February 2019
As you may know, I am on secondment for 50% of the time with Leeds Children’s Services. I do miss school sometimes, and I often find that my remaining time in school is disproportionately spent in meetings rather than with children and colleagues in classrooms. Fortunately, we have very strong teaching and support teams Read…
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Head teacher blog 1st February 2019
It has been a typically busy and exciting week at Farfield. I am always particularly pleased when the school makes good use of expertise and opportunities from the local community and this has been evident this week. On Monday, both Year 6 classes went to visit Sunnybank Mills to explore our local heritage. This Read…
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Headteacher blog 25th January 2019
It has been back to the sixties in Year 2 this week with visitors reminiscing and a day-long workshop that ended with an enjoyable performance for parents. It has been great to have such a vibrant, ‘living’ topic but it does make me feel old that a decade I lived in is now a Read…
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Head teacher blog 18th January 2019
I have been thinking about food a lot this week. On Tuesday we had an interesting day with a researcher working on behalf of Public Health England who is doing a food case study on our school prior to a consultation on changes to School Food Standards. This is such a broad issue about Read…
