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How blogging can support your child’s learning
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Headteacher blog 16th January 2015
I have been out of school quite a lot this week attending head teacher meetings and as part of my role as education member of the Leeds Safeguarding Children Board. As I have been out so much, when I have been in school I have tried to be very visible and have toured the Read…
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Charity Dinner
At February half term, two of our staff – Mrs Fisher and Mrs Carney – are travelling with colleagues from Crawshaw Academy to India as part of our British Council partnership with our new partner school, GAV Senior School (Head teacher Mrs Anjou Rattan). The school teaches children from age 5 to 18 and is based Read…
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Head teacher blog January 9th 2015
Welcome back after the New Year celebrations. This is my favourite term as regards academic progress as this is the term with least interruptions to the flow of lessons and learning. The children are all well-established in their classes, they are building on the foundations of term one and there are many fewer distractions Read…
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Growth Mindsets
This half term, Mrs Fisher and Mr Wilkinson will be leading a series of assemblies focussing on the brain and the importance of having a ‘growth mindset’. This is crucial to the school’s work and it would be very helpful if parents, too, adopted a ‘growth mindset’ attitude and choice of language when discussing Read…
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Head teacher blog Christmas 2014
We have successfully combined Christmas festivities and school work this week and I have been very proud of the school. The KS1 and KS2 performances show-cased talent amongst our pupils and it was great to see so many families in the audiences. We had very successful discos and this term the PTA have been Read…
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Staff Panto 2014
If the children come home today with strange tales, they are probably true…. The staff put on an impromptu performance of the Wizard of Oz for the children this morning with a very peculiar Dorothy and a rather frightening wicked witch! The children seemed to enjoy themselves – as did the staff – and Read…
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Head teacher blog December 12th 2014
There has been a lovely atmosphere in school this week as Christmas preparations accelerate. On Wednesday, the school community came together for the annual PTA Christmas Fair. Many thanks for everyone’s generous support for this and also to all those families and businesses that contributed to it. Particular thanks go to all the volunteers Read…
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Headteacher blog 5/12/14
It has been an enjoyable week at Farfield and we can feel that Christmas is coming! For me, Christmas begins with the annual Town Hall Concert in Leeds. Once again, I was very proud of the Farfield children in the 300-strong choir singing with the Leeds Youth Orchestra. Every year, it is a really Read…
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Head teacher blog 28th November
It has been a proud week for the school as former pupil Nile Wilson has been nominated for BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award. We wish him the best of luck with this – what a year he has had! I was also proud of the whole school community as we gathered Read…
