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Change to HT secondment
For the summer term, Mr Harris’ secondment to Leeds City Council will reduce from 50% to 30% i.e. from 2.5 days per week to 1.5 days.
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Year 5 VIPs
14 children from year 5 have been attending a Scholars Programme at Priesthorpe School over the past couple of months. This afternoon, the children were invited back to Priesthorpe as VIPs and each child received a gift presented to them in front of KS3 in an end of term celebration assembly. Well done to Read…
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Headteacher blog 29th March 2019
It’s the end of a busy term and the sun is shining: heralding the coming of spring and longer, warmer days. The children have enjoyed the good weather and the use of the grounds. I particularly liked the Y4 Rock Club that has been set up by the children around the spoil heap from Read…
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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…
