Look at what we have been up to!

• Starting the summer term with 'The Barnabus Project'

  Fri 13 May 2022

  We began the summer term reading 'The Barnabus Project', a magical story by The Fan Brothers. 

  The book tells the story of Barnabus, he is part elephant and part mouse and as such, likes eating peanuts and cheese! Barnabus showed the children that in his world, perfection really means being true to yourself and your friends, it's a place where by following his dreams he found where he truly belonged.

  This was the inspiration for our whole school writing project.

   

  Listen to The Fan Brothers read 'The Barnabus Project' here.

   

  

• World Book Day 2022

  Fri 04 Mar 2022

  This year for World Book Day, Mrs Brannan set the children 2 challenges. 

  1) To dress as a word

  2) The Extreme Reading Challenge

   

  There were lots of imaginative costumes but the winners were Oliver C in reception as 'Heavy', Willow in year 1 as 'Thing 1' and Macie in year 5 as 'Float'.

   

  There were also some fantastic entries to The Extreme Reading Challenge and Mrs Nichols had a hard time narrowing it down to just one winner. Eventually she chose Charlie in 3A who showcased his reading talents upside down - extreme indeed!!

   

  In class, the children took part in lots of wonderful reading activities. From book tasting to recommendations - the children enjoyed all things books today!

  

• TREE-mendous tree planting!

  Thu 03 Mar 2022

  On Thursday 3^rd March we had a tree-mendous opportunity to do some planting across school. This was part of Bradford Council's "Tree for Every Child" project which aims to plant 55,000 trees - the equivalent of one tree per primary school child - over a two year period.

   

  First of all Miss Greenwood's Reception class helped to plant three large cherry trees along the drive. They learnt all about the root systems and had a chance to compare how the bark and soil felt before helping to heave them into position.

   

  Then some children from Y4, 5 and 6 had the chance to plant a variety of young trees (or whips as we found out they are called before growing any sideway branches). They learnt how to safely use a spade and how best to plant the whips before putting hazel, willow, apple and silver birch trees at the top of the field.

   

  Even though it was a rather wet and rainy afternoon, everyone had lots of fun and we look forward to seeing our new trees grow over the coming years.

  

• Harnessing our creativity with ONCE UPON A TUNE

  Fri 11 Feb 2022

  Spring term began with the whole school text, Once Upon A Tune by James Mayhew. The result is a combination of all creative arts - writing, drawing, printing, painting and music. Take a look at the amazing work on display. 

   

  Mrs Brannan has been tweeting again too!

  

• Writing inspired by the Buttershaw Beach, Flotsam and Poems about the Seaside

  Fri 01 Oct 2021

  The children have written their own poems, diaries and descriptions all linked to the books Flotsam and Poems about the Seaside. The children also took inspiration from our 2021 Super Starter the Buttershaw Beach!

  Mrs Brannan has been in touch with the creator of Poems about the Seaside, Brian Moses, sharing some of the children's writing with him on twitter.

  

• Welcome to the Buttershaw Beach!

  Wed 08 Sep 2021

  A wonderful welcome back to the whole Farfield Family - look what awaits the children on their return to school!

  We cannot wait to enjoy all of this and much more with them!

  

• Tweets from an author

  Tue 11 May 2021

  Mrs Brannon tweeted Emma Perry, author of I Don't Like Books, to show her some of our work, here is her response;

  

• 'I DON'T LIKE BOOKS. NEVER. EVER. THE END'

  Fri 07 May 2021

  At Farfield, we don't like books....WE LOVE THEM!!

   

  We started the summer term with our whole school book - 'I don't like books. Never. Ever. The End.' by Emma Perry. 

  After reading this book, there has been story sharing, recommendations written, new adventures planned, alternative endings written, persuasion, debates, investigations carried out and reports written! 

  Take a look at the writing we are celebrating from across school - we really did love this book and the places it took us!

  

• National Day of Reflection - Tuesday 23 March

  Thu 25 Mar 2021

  Tuesday 23rd March was a special day – all across the UK people from all backgrounds and communities came together to reflect on the past year and 

  hope for a brighter future. We tied yellow ribbons to show we were observing a year since the first lockdown began. At 11am everyone at Farfield Primary and Nursery School observed a 1 minute silence and all of the children made lanterns to take home and place in their windows to light up the night.

  

• Congratulations 4B - all parents are on Dojo!

  Wed 07 Oct 2020