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Harvest Festival 2017
Harvest Festival was very busy this morning: many thanks to all the parents and grandparents for attending and for the donations. Well done to the children that performed and to everyone for their hard work on the farm. We had a guest appearance from Cabbage Comedian: the children were, frankly, a bit mean to him! Read…
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Head teacher blog October 13th 2017
Speaking with head teacher colleagues earlier this week, I commented that I was working hard on, and a bit worried about plans for, Harvest Festival. My concerns were met with incredulous looks; Harvest Festival is clearly a much bigger event at Farfield than in most schools. And so it should be: food, cooking and Read…
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Head teacher blog 6th October 2017
It has been good to see children enjoying the school grounds this week: it was Y3’s week for the den-making area and I have never seen such large numbers and obvious enthusiasm and delight up there. The children have started a topic around ‘Stone Age’ and there was a lot of tool making and Read…
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National Fitness Day 27th September 2017
Some pictures from the group of Y3, Y4 and Y5 children who took part in the National Fitness Day event at John Charles Centre for Sport last week. The children learned a Samba routine and then performed it ‘en masse’. They then had an active hour where they worked with Leeds Rhinos and our ‘Schools Games Organiser’ – Read…
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Head teacher blog 29th September 2017
This week our extensive programme of after-school clubs started and it is an important part of the Farfield offer. There are literally hundreds of club places, ranging from arts, crafts, singing and sudoku, to football, athletics and karate. I am grateful to all the staff and others that run the clubs, especially those volunteers who Read…
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Head teacher’s blog 22nd September 2017
Next week, Mr Cooke is presenting at a major PE conference in London. Having won a couple of important PE-related awards last academic year, news of some of our innovative approaches to PE is spreading and it will be an honour to share our ‘physical activity’ story so far with colleagues from across the Read…
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Podium places in the cross country competition
A fabulous well done to our teams who took part in the cross country competition at Farnley Academy on Tuesday. All our teams managed to get a podium place and should be very proud of their achievements. We look forward to seeing what the children can achieve at future events. Year 4 boys – Read…
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Head teacher blog 15th September 2017
We are trying hard to live up to our award of ‘Healthy School of the Year 2017’ and this week has been no exception. The KS2 PE curriculum had a successful kick off this week with new teacher Nick Little leading our ‘Speed, Agility and Quickness’ sessions and children engaging in a wide range Read…
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Curriculum Newsletter September 2017
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Head teacher blog 8th September 2017
It is great to be back – no, really! It was a very busy summer at school with roofers, decorators, heating engineers, fencing contractors, carpet fitters and ground workers to coordinate, but we were ready on time thanks to lots of graft and teamwork! The site and admin team have had a particularly tough Read…
