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FARFIELD CHILDREN CAN come to school everyday!
Mon 08 Apr 2024🚲A huge well done to Poppy and Skyla who won our attendance prizes for the Sprint Term. Skyla had an amazing 100% attendance last term and Poppy had a fabulous 96.2%.🚲
Every child with attendance above 96% from today until 18th July will be entered into the Summer Term draw. One winner from EYs/KS1 and one winner from KS2 who will then go shopping for a new bike and helmet ready to use over the summer holidays!
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FARFIELD CHILDREN CAN be Sparkly Stars and be awarded the ⭐GOLDEN STAR⭐!
Fri 22 Mar 2024All staff and visitors continue to nominate children to receive a 'Sparkly Star'. Children are nominated for our green star for being 'Ready', our red star for being 'Respectful' and our blue star for being 'Safe'. Each week, Mrs Nichols reads all of the nominations and chooses one Sparkly Star from EYs and KS1 and one from KS2...and sometimes she chooses more!
For those children who are awarded all three of the Sparkly Stars, they are given the extra special ⭐GOLDEN SPARKLY STAR⭐ in recognition of this amazing achievement. This term ⭐Amelia⭐ has been awarded her Golden Sparkly Star, she is only the second child to achieve this!
Congratulations to all of the children who have been nominated - those listed in the table pictured below.
Ready Stars were awarded to: Keyhan (RG), Arlie-Joe (1H), Sienna (2R), Franky-Joe (3Y), Amelia (6B), Lily (6C), Macey (6C), Ronnie (6C), Teya (6G).
Respectful Stars were awarded to: Isla-Mae (RE), Leo (RG), Elsa-Rae (1H), Tony (1H), Mitchell (1H), Elizabeth (2G), Maddison (2G), Lyla (3W), Alex (3Y), Eban (4M), Noah (5S) Amelia (6B), Elzbeth (6C), Ava-Rose (6G).
Safe Stars were awarded to: Daniel (RE), Joe (RE), Eve (RG), Junior (1H), Chloe (2G), Callum (5S), Mathew (5S), Aaqif (6B), Amelia (6B), Oliver (6B), Connor (6C), Riley (6G)
A special well done to all the children who received a Sparkly Star in the Spring term.
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FARFIELD CHILDREN CAN feedback to their teachers!
Tue 19 Mar 2024Today Mrs Gale gathered the Curriculum Crew to find out what they think helps them learn the best.
The Curriculum Crew looked at their working walls and reflected on what things supported their learning the most and what else they thought they needed. The voice of the children matters to their class teachers and this feedback will bring about change in their classrooms!
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Whole School Assembly - Individual Liberty
Mon 18 Mar 2024In today's assembly, we talked about British Values. Recently, many families travelled to Glasgow for an event that claimed to channel the magic of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. However the the chocolate fountains, performances by Oompa Loompas and interactive experiences turned out to be rows of empty tables and walls of black fabric separating almost empty spaces. We talked about why the people who went may have been disappointed, and how others involved were impacted too. There are times when we will be excited and will be looking forward to something, but it may not be quite what we wanted or hoped it would be. We discussed that learning how to deal with disappointment is important and that our choices are a part of our Individual Liberty.
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FARFIELD CHILDREN CAN donate to good causes
Fri 15 Mar 2024This Red Nose Day, children and staff came to school dressed in red. Thank you to everyone who donated today.
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World Book Day 2024
Fri 08 Mar 2024World Book Day 2024 had a theme of Read Your Own Way. At Farfield, we celebrated with a bedtime story theme day. We dressed in pyjamas and brought in book buddies and blankets from home to make cosy reading spaces in our classrooms. Throughout the day we read lots of stories and took part in lots of 'bookish' activities. Our families joined us to share some special reading time and our class teachers swapped to share their favourite picture books with pupils they aren't usually able to share stories with. Our very popular book potato competition took place with all the entries displayed proudly on the library bus. Our fantastic winners (voted for by our Reading Ambassadors) were Leo (RG), Hannah (1G) and Lily (5S). There were some truly inspired creations!
This is what some of our families had to say about their storytime:
'It was lovely to be able to come and see Freddy read in school today. We had fun reading Freddy's favourite books from class. His reading is coming on very well with help from his teachers.' (Freddy's mum)
'This afternoon was fun. Benjamin enjoyed me meeting his friends and looking at books.' (Benjamin's mum)
'It was good to spend some one to one time with Esmee in school. We read lots of books together. I really enjoyed storytime with 2G - lovely warm welcoming class and lovely teachers. It was a really good afternoon.' (Esmee's mum)
'I really enjoyed spending time with Alice reading lots of books. It's nice to spend some one to one time with Alice.' (Alice's mum)
'I enjoyed the reading session today. Me and Haidar read The Very Hungry Caterpillar, one of Haidar's favourites. We also read the 3 Little Pigs and enjoyed building a straw house, where Haidar acted as the big bad wolf and huffed and puffed it down. Thank you for providing such a lovely environment for children and parents today.' (Haidar's mum)
'Millie and myself enjoyed this morning. We read 4 books - all new to both of use and Millie loved the books where we had to lift the flap up so I'm going to order her some similar books.' (Millie's mum)
'I loved the nursery reading group today. It was an absolute pleasure to attend. A good book, a teddy bear, a blanket and a snuggle with my little girl in the school setting, surrounded by her teachers and friends. Couldn't get any better! Thank you for a lovely morning.' (Neave's mum)
'It was great 👍. It was so lovely being able to spend some quality time with Jacob. I'd love to come into school again sometime for some other activities.' (Jacob's mum)
'I really enjoyed myself.' (Bradley's mum)
'I absolutely enjoyed coming, today it was so nice just to spend time with Amelia, you have a lovely classroom set up and I felt very welcomed. You have a lovely classroom set up and it was nice to see all the teachers; Mrs Brannan, Mrs Sykes and Miss Towler all spoke to us. Thank you for arranging it - I loved my time there.' (Amelia's mum)
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Whole School Assembly - Introducing Aromatic Authors
Tue 27 Feb 2024Today's whole school assembly with Adam focused on a new writing project called 'Aromatic Authors' with local poet and author Matt Abbott. It was all about making our writing more interesting by adding lots of different ingredients, like a chef does to make food tasty. He talked about how this can be applied to everything in life. Making the most out of every lesson and opportunity will help us to enjoy life to its fullest.
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Whole School Assembly - Individual Liberty
Mon 19 Feb 2024This morning Mrs Nichols talked to everyone about British Values and how we can show these values in school. She talked to us about democracy, the rules of law, mutual respect and individual liberty. Mrs Nichols shared a picture from this week’s Picture News which detailed the announcement from Coca-Cola that they are trialling removing labelling from their bottles and instead embossing details on them. This is in an attempt to reduce packaging. We discussed that us being able to make choices is a part of our Individual Liberty and what we could do to support reducing packaging in our day-to-day lives.
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FARFIELD CHILDREN CAN have 100% attendance!
Fri 09 Feb 2024This week we held an Attendance Prize Draw. The names of every child in school who had been in on time, every day from Monday 5th-Friday 9th February were entered into the draw.
Congratulations to our attendance prize winners Isla-Rose and Franky-Joe who both received a selection of books for themselves and a shopping voucher for their family.
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FARFIELD CHILDREN CAN be Mathematicians!
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Today was our MATHS DAY and it's been MARVELLOUS!
The children and adults came to school dressed in numbers, spots, stripes, shapes, there was even a domino! All of children have taken part in a day full of fun maths activities. There have been timestable battles, problems to solve and puzzles to explore. The children have shown their excellent teamwork and problem solving skills throughout the day.
We would like to keep the maths going at home by sharing an app your child can use. As a school we follow White Rose Maths and you can download their 1 Minute Maths app for free. The app is great practise for children in all year groups. In early maths we really focus on developing the children’s subitising (being able to recognise how many of something without having to count them) with numbers up to 5. There are some lovely quick opportunities to practise this on the app. There's also addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with appropriate challenge for all children in school. You can take a look at the website here https://whiteroseeducation.com/1-minute-maths or just search it in your app store. Just 1 minute every school day on the app each week in the school year would be an extra 3 hours of maths practise for your child!
Thank you for all your support with our maths day. As it is also Children's Mental Health Week, the money donated today will be sent to 'Youth In Mind' in support of children's mental health.
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