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Poppy Appeal
The annual poppy appeal raised £454.62: effectively a pound per child. Thank you for your support with this.
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Headteacher blog 24th November 2017
I have been head teacher here a long time: 13 and a half years. I was reminded of this on a school tour earlier this week when a prospective parent that I was showing round announced that she had been in Y6 when I first came to the school in 2004. I had also Read…
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Children in Need total
The total raised for Children in Need last week was £579.15! Thank you for your generosity!
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Friends of Farfield Christmas Shopping evening – Friday 1st December at 7pm
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Headteacher blog 17th November 2017
It was an interesting week of contrasts in terms of my experience of co-operation between schools and partners this week. As a member of the Leeds Safeguarding Children Board, I have been involved in a dispute between schools on the other side of the city where an academy is trying to withdraw from ‘cluster’ Read…
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Y6 Sportshall Athletics
Yesterday’s ‘Sportshall Athletics’ competition for YR6 was a great event and I think all the children had a brilliant time. We were phenomenal in the races, coming 1st or 2nd in 10 of the 12 races. However, we had mixed success in our field events with some stand-out individual performances but just not quite enough strength in depth Read…
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Headteacher blog 10th November 2017
Staff absences can be difficult to cover, especially when we have such an ambitious and creative curriculum, but if it falls to me to cover a class or group, at least I have the pleasure of working directly with children again and I get to experience life ‘at the chalk face’. I really enjoyed Read…
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Bouldering at the Depot
A number of groups of children are bouldering at the Depot this half term. Over six weeks, the children develop their confidence, skills, strength, resilience and problem-solving. This is a terrific aspect of our PE offer, showcasing yet another type of physical activity that a wide range of children can enjoy and find success Read…
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Head teacher blog 3rd November 2017
I had a good half term break but I am nevertheless pleased to be back at school spending time in classes and looking at books. I have been focussing on ‘Behaviour and Engagement’ in my first round of monitoring visits this academic year and what I have observed was overwhelmingly good. This week I Read…
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Headteacher blog 19th October 2017
It was an absolute pleasure covering an absent colleague on Tuesday, leading a group of twenty immaculately-behaved and motivated Year 5 children for an afternoon of coding using an application called Scratch. Children in Years 4-6 have two full afternoons of coding each half term and it is a really good amount of time Read…
