Look at what we have been up to!

• Whole School Assembly - Making Good Choices

  Mon 22 Jan 2024

  This morning Adam came to do our school assembly. He talked to us about voting and how to choose the best things. We voted for our favourite biscuits and Farfield decided that Oreo’s are the best!
  Adam then talked to us about how the best thing isn’t always the best choice. If we had Oreo’s for breakfast, dinner and tea it wouldn’t be the best for our bodies. He talked to us about making the right choices and how sometimes that can be hard but that we should always try and make kind choices.

  

• FARFIELD CHILDREN CAN impress real life Authors

  Fri 05 Jan 2024

  In September our whole school book was about a Girl and a Dinosaur and Dinosaurs became the theme for our September starter.

  Once we finished our writing unit on 'The Girl and the Dinosaur', we sent the author (Hollie Hughes) some examples of the children’s writing and photos of our display.

  She said, ‘This is absolutely amazing to see, and the work the children have produced is phenomenal! Thank you so much for choosing The Girl and the Dinosaur to work on!’

  She very kindly sent us a signed copy of the book plus a signed copy of her brand new story and also a bookmark for every child in school.

  Well done Farfield, you have really impressed the author with your writing.

  

• FARFIELD CHILDREN CAN - OH YES THEY CAN!

  Thu 04 Jan 2024

  To engage our children in their writing of fairytales, we decided what better than to have a live pantomime in school!

  This performance which required lots of audience participation, immersed the children in the story of Cinderella and encouraged them to share their own fairytale ideas.

  

• FARFIELD CHILDREN CAN be Sparkly Stars!

  Tue 02 Jan 2024

  At Farfield Primary & Nursery School, all staff and visitors can nominate children to receive a 'Sparkly Star'. These special badges represent each of our school rules. Children are nominated for our green star for being 'Ready', children are nominated for our red star for being 'Respectful' and children are nominated for 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!

  Congratulations to all of the children who have been nominated - those listed in the table pictured below. 

  Ready Stars were awarded to: Kayson-James (RG), Robert (RG), Zoya (RG), Ivan (1G), Joah-James (1H), Logan (1H), Aayan (2G), Nayvie-Rae (2G), Kyan (4M), Beau (5M), Harris (5M) and Bradley (6B).

  Respectful Stars were awarded to: Vinnie (1G), Connor (2G), Layla (4M), Neveah-Rose (4M), Isabella (4W), Poppy (5M), Hanani (5M), Kaylen-James (6C), Andre (6C), Lily (6C) and Layla (6G).

  Safe Stars were awarded to: Isaac (1G), Patrick (1H), Connor (2G), Isabella (4W), Brooke (5S) and Albert (6C)

  A special well done to all the children who received a Sparkly Star in the Autumn term.

  

• MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

  Mon 25 Dec 2023

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  Everyone at Farfield would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas.
  Today we would like to thank the staff who work as part of the dementia service at Springfield Care Home who wanted to support the local community and chose to send lots of gifts to Father Christmas for the children at Farfield to receive.
  We'd also like to thank the Farfield staff who sent gifts to Father Christmas to be delivered to our children, as well as our Friends at St Wilfrid's Church who donated hampers to some of our families too.

  This year our classes made cards that Mrs Hussain delivered to Springfield to send our Christmas wishes to them - the cards were lovely and the residents really enjoyed them!
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• Farfield's Festive Fun - A VERY Special Visitor!

  Fri 15 Dec 2023

  She did it! Mrs Benson - our very own Chief Elf - made a call and look who visited us. A jingle of bells could be heard all around Farfield as Father Christmas and his Chief Elf visited each class delivering a present to every child. Our younger children joined Father Christmas and his Chief Elf fireside to read 'The Night Before Christmas'. We hope everyone enjoys their Christmas gift. 

  

• Farfield's Festive Fun - Christmas Performances

  Thu 14 Dec 2023

  What a fabulous few weeks. All of the children have been practising for their Christmas performances and they were amazing. Thank you to everyone who came to see the Nativity in Nursery, Reception and KS1 Christmas Shows and joined KS2 at St Paul's Church for our Carol Concerts - we hope you enjoyed, we certainly did!

  

• FARFIELD CHILDREN CAN win the Chief Executive's Christmas Card Design

  Wed 13 Dec 2023

  Congratulations to Sienna whose Christmas card design has been selected by the Chief Executive of the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council. The card will be sent on behalf of Lorraine O'Donnell and the Council Management Team far and wide. What a beautiful card - we can see why it was the winning design!

   

  The Lord Mayor (Cllr Gerry Barker) and the Lady Mayoress (Mrs Jean Barker) hosted a Civic Reception for the winners and runners up of the Christmas Card Design Competition on Wednesday 13 December in the Banqueting Hall at City Hall. Sienna attended with her family, Mrs Nichols and Mrs Hussain. A huge well done Sienna!

  

• FARFIELD CHILDREN CAN identify their Character Strengths and Celebrate them.

  Tue 12 Dec 2023

  Throughout the second half term of 2023, all of our children have completed the 'Celebrate’ module of myHappymind. This module teaches the children to understand what their unique character strengths are and how these can be celebrated. The module is a fantastic way to help build the children’s self esteem.

   

  Our Happiness Heroes Albert, Kaytee, Jaycie, Lola, Melody, Millie, Andre, Casey-Leigh, Kason & Ernie-Joe visited our KS2 classes and to ask them about Celebrate Brain module, this is what they said:

  What have you learnt during the Celebrate Module?

  ‘I’ve learnt my mind can be less afraid and happier.’ – Faris Y3

  ‘I’ve learnt hew strategies to help me calm.’ – Poppie Y3

  ‘When you learn something over and over it creates new pathways called neuroplasticity.’ – Noah Y3

  ‘We have different character strengths but we don’t all have the same ones.’ – 3W

  ‘To celebrate myself and be less insecure.’ – Divina Y5

  What are your top Character Strengths?

  ‘Love and kindness.’ – Olivia Y3

  ‘Love of life and our world.’ – Iiona Y3

  ‘Exploring and learning.’ – Blake Y4

  ‘Bravery and teamwork.’ – Skyla Y4

  ‘Teamwork, exploring and learning.’ – Lily Y5

  When have you used your strengths?

  ‘Last week I was honest with Mr Yardley about something I’d done wrong.’ – Poppie Y3

  ‘I used my colouring book to calm down when I was angry and it worked.’ – Noah Y3

  ‘I’ve had to use my teamwork skills in PE.’ – Audrey Y4

  ‘When my baby brother was falling down the steps, I used kindness.’ – Joey Y4

  ‘I used leadership when I was talking to my football team at the weekend.’ – Ben Y5

  

• FARFIELD CHILDREN CAN come to school every day!

  Mon 11 Dec 2023

  A huge congratulations to Everly and Amelia who won our attendance prizes this week!

  Everly had an amazing 100% attendance and Amelia has a super 98.5% attendance. Everly has picked a lovely purple bike and Amelia has picked a blue bike for her brother - what an amazing big sister.

  It was very impressive to have 70 names in the EYs/KS1 draw, 27 of which had 99/100% attendance and 122 names in the KS2 draw, 60 of which had 99/100% attendance.

  Let's keep up our high attendance - every day is a learning day and every day counts!