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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…
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6H Residential Day Three
A Message from 6H We went Canoeing in a reservoir on our last day of residential. At the start we were getting used to paddling but at the end of the session we all got the hang of it. We managed to keep dry although there was a bit of splashing! At the end Read…
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Headteacher blog June 8th 2018
This week Year 6 have been on residential at How Stean Gorge and they have had an amazing time! The weather has been better this year and the children have had the challenge of abseiling, gorge scrambling, via ferrata, caving and canoeing. They have really enjoyed camping with their friends and they have been Read…
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6H Residential Day Two
A message from 6H Today was amazing, we did loads of fun, adventurous activities including; Via Ferrata, canoeing and caving. The Via Ferrata was jam packed with loads of new challenges. We tried our best to be as safe as possible whilst climbing across a rock face . Also, we did another great activity, Read…
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6H Residential Day One
A message from year 6… It has been a pleasure to be part of the year 6 team today as we have participated in the year 6 residential. On the first day, we did an activity called abseiling where we glided down to a deep gorge using a rope and went through a natural Read…
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6S Residential Day 2
A day of action! Weather a bit chilly first thing but lovely later. The children are now enjoying a sing-along camp fire and we may have an earlier night tonight. Many thanks for all the comments: we enjoyed reading them out. I made the children laugh/cringe over them depending on whether XXs were left Read…
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6S residential at How Stean Gorge Day 1
It has been a fabulous first day and a fantastic group (so far). The journey up was very misty: I had to put on windscreen wipers even though it wasn’t raining and we needed headlights too. As a result, we couldn’t see much at our first stop at the top of Coldstone Cut. Once Read…
