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Spelling Bee Champions!
This morning, a team of 6 children from Years 2 – 6 joined 8 other school teams at Pudsey Southroyd Primary School for The Great Pudsey Spell Off – the first Pudsey area Spelling Bee. The children competed in pairs through 5 very competitive rounds: homophones, spelling patterns, creating sentences, word builders and a Read…
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Camp-Over 2017: a really enjoyable day and night
We hope that everyone had a great time at Farfield Camp-Over 2017. We were lucky with the weather yet again and everything seemed to go to plan: the White Rose Cheerleaders and juggler Matthew Tiffany entertained us and the Obstacle Course was a big hit with competitive families. As usual, the water fight went Read…
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S Factor 2017
This morning we had our S Factor Finale. In front of a packed hall, each class’ champion scientist presented their investigation or demonstration to the team of three ‘real scientist’ judges (all female): Jane (an immunologist), Davina (a medical professional) and Bernice (a chemist). Congratulations to Mrs Galbraith, Mrs Daniels and Miss Levett for Read…
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Head teacher blog 30th June 2017
What a week it has been! It began with our triumph in London at the glitzy TES School Awards and continued in that positive and enjoyable vein. We have confirmed some really strong Key Stage 1 assessment results with improvements in every measure at Year 2 and by far our best ever results in Read…
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Congratulatory letter from the Regional Schools Commissioner
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TES Schools Award winner – Healthy school of the year
On Friday evening, a team of staff (and Tom Booles, a parent who has supported volunteering and fundraising through his employer Barclays Bank) attended the TES Schools Award ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London where Farfield were shortlisted in one of the categories for a national award. The evening, hosted by Julian Clary, Read…
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Observation hive at Farfield
Most classes this week got to be up close to bees in an observation hive brought in by Mrs Gilhooley and Mrs Laurie. Many thanks once again to the ladies for their wonderful insight into the fascinating life of bees. The hives on our Farfield Farm go from strength to strength under their watchful Read…
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Head teacher’s blog 23rd June 2017
This week has been generally hot and sunny and Farfield often looks its best at this time of year. I have done two tours of the school for groups of new parents joining Reception for September and they appear to have been impressed and inspired as they have seen all that the school can Read…
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Girls football tournament
Our under 12s girls football team took part in a tournament with 50 other teams yesterday at the John Charles Centre for Sport. This was a huge event that took a lot of organising! The girls did amazingly well, playing a total of 4 games, loosing two and winning two. Well done to all Read…
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Headteacher blog 16th June 2017
It was wonderful to meet so many families at the Reception Open Evening on Thursday. The children seemed delightful and confident; I am sure that they will be a good cohort. As I was speaking to the families, I was very well supported by the large Foundation Stage team. This team is very well Read…
