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Farfield wins a PE award
Farsley Farfield Primary School won the Active Schools Leeds ‘Delivering High Quality Physical Education – Innovative Curriculum PE Award 2016’ at a glitzy ceremony last night at the John Charles Centre for Sport. The school was represented by David Cooke and Stuart Tiffany and they were presented their award by Olympic athletes Jack Laugher, Read…
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Head teacher blog 21st October 2016
It has been a very busy half term and it has ended on a high with Farsley Farfield Primary School winning the Active Schools Leeds ‘Delivering High Quality Physical Education – Innovative Curriculum PE Award 2016’ at a glitzy ceremony last night at the John Charles Centre for Sport. The school was represented by Read…
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Farm and Harvest 2016
We have had another successful year on the school farm. Regular farming sessions have now been extended down to Year 2 and the youngest children visit the farm too to help with sowing and harvesting. We hope that these farming sessions support our work on science but, more importantly, will provide the children with Read…
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Harvest Festival 2016
The school hall was packed for another harvest festival yesterday. The harvest display looked impressive and was artistically arranged by Ms Howells, a Y4 group and Mr Catto. Many thanks for all the donations of food for St George’s Crypt: we know that it is always appreciated. We enjoyed singing and poetry reading from Read…
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Headteacher blog 14th October 2016
Harvest Festival was VERY busy this morning but it was great to see so many families along with over 400 children in the halls. I am grateful to all those families that were able to donate food for St George’s Crypt. The harvest display of produce from Farfield Farm was impressive: many thanks to Ms Read…
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Headteacher blog 7/10/2016
Monday morning was wonderful: sunshine and lots of Y1 children on the school farm harvesting vegetables for their soups. They took back beetroot (making a very bright soup!), big leeks, giant parsnips, beans, artichokes, swedes, onions, perfect carrots and squash. They left the pumpkins that are getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger… It is Read…
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Headteacher blog 30th September 2016
This week we have seen some of the best of Farfield. I had to write an annual Educational Visits Report for governors and calculated that we had 54 school trips last year, not including the regular trips to sports clubs as part of PE lessons or the local visits by foot. These visits certainly Read…
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Headteacher blog 23rd September 2016
Another week of sunshine at Farfield means the children continue to enjoy and explore the fantastic school grounds. This morning, Nursery children visited the school chickens to collect eggs – they learnt that if they go at 9.30, they won’t find many! Some Reception children have been to ‘Build a Bear’ to get a Read…
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Fuel for School assembly this morning
This morning the Junior children enjoyed an assembly from The Real Junk Food Project, the people behind the Fuel for School scheme that we joined this term. The assembly was led by Kevin but he was supported by ‘Fred the Fox’. We were also lucky to welcome Adam Smith, the inspirational founder of the project, Read…
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Headteacher Blog 16/9/2016
Our first full week of the new school year has been a good one. Children and staff are settled and working hard. Our Muslim families celebrated Eid-ul-Adha at the start of the week and we trust that they enjoyed their festivities. On Monday we had special visitors: Nile and Joanna Wilson. Nile showed us Read…
