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Headteacher blog 6th July 2018
Last week’s ‘Friends of Farfield’ Camp-Over was a great success again and has raised £3000 towards another new minibus. This was a great community event and I am immensely grateful to Diane and her team of volunteers for their brilliant work. It is always great to see happy children playing freely for hours across Read…
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Camp-over – total raised
Drum roll please…. The total amount raised from the 2018 PTA camp-over is… £3000! This is the largest amount made from a camp-over yet. Thank you to everyone that came and supported the event. We are already looking forward to next year.
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Scorching: Camp-Over 2018
We hope everyone had a super time at this weekend’s camp-over – thank you for your support. A special thank you to everyone who helped us before, during and after the event through their volunteering: far too many to name individually (and I would no doubt miss someone out). Many thanks to our sponsors Read…
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Schools Yorkshire Tour 2018
This morning 10 children took part in the Schools Yorkshire Tour 2018 Cycling Relay. The Schools Yorkshire Tour is a large scale cycle event for primary, secondary and special schools in Yorkshire developed to encourage more young people to take up cycling, by promoting cycling as a fun and ‘cool’ method of transport. Its Read…
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Headteacher blog 29th June 2018
I have been thinking about a sense of belonging this week. Year 4 have been creating shields with symbols of those things that mean most to them or that they feel define them. Icons relating to X Box and Playstation were quite prevalent, but so were family, friends, religion and clubs that the children Read…
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Bronze medallists in the Mini-Olympics!
On Wednesday afternoon, 30 children from years 2-6 were selected to represent Farsley Farfield in the annual Pudsey Mini-Olympics at the John Charles Centre. Children competed in team and individual events to earn points. Our KS1 pupils came 2nd place in their team events and Farsley Farfield were awarded bronze medals for coming 3rd Read…
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Pudsey Spelling Bee
The Farfield team had a very successful morning at the annual Pudsey Spelling Bee! As defending champions, we went with the hope that we could place well again (although we took a completely new team – showing strength in depth!). The team of children from Year 2 to Year 6 did brilliantly and came Read…
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World Kettlebell Champion visits Farfield 26.6.18
Today we had a special visitor in school. Tracey Howson (a parent here at Farfield) joined us for the full day to share her own inspirational story of how an overweight and inactive girl/teenager/adult became World Kettlebell Champion. Tracey’s exploits were first made known to us by our PE Governor who was equally inspired Read…
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Headteacher blog 22nd June 2018
Year 2 went to Skelton Grange nature reserve this week and some of them found newts and a lizard: how fantastic is that? Our infants visit lots of nature reserves – Rodley and Denso Marston as well as Skelton Grange – but our juniors don’t. We will need to address that next year. The Read…
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Headteacher blog 15th June 2018
Happy Eid to all our Muslim families! This week our Y1 children have been doing their statutory phonics assessments and they have been doing really well. Thank you to all the staff for their collective efforts and to families who have clearly been practising at home. Well done! On Tuesday we welcomed all our Read…
