Pros Oct 06 booklet.indd - Drighlington Primary School

A Sporting Life...
Farsley Farfield is a very strong sporting school. We aim to
provide a broad and balanced curriculum for all children both
through P.E lessons during school time and our wide variety
of sporting activities out of school hours. We aim to provide
two hours of good-quality PE for each child each week. We have achieved
the prestigious Activemark Gold award.
We take all Year 4 children for the whole academic year to lovely, historic
Bramley Baths. We aim for all children to be able to swim at least 25m
unaided. A child that is unable to swim to that standard at the end of Year
4 may be given the opportunity for additional lessons in Year 5.
Our school grounds are second-to-none locally, and in the summer we have
two artificial cricket wickets and nets to further promote that sport. We
are very proud that our cricket team were West Yorkshire champions in
2006!
We have excellent links with Priesthorpe Specialist Sports College, and
benefit from specialist teaching and other sports coaches that they provide
or broker.
We have a lot of sporting talent on the staff including a teacher that has
swum for Great Britain, a prominent local cyclist and a semi-professional
footballer. As well as football and cricket, we regularly take part in
competitions in netball, tag rugby, rounders, swimming, cycling, athletics
and cross country.