Ghyll Royd Ghoul enjoyed a fangtastic Halloween Day on Monday 2nd November. All years were invited to dress up in their spookiest costumes to enjoy a full day of Halloween fun, organised by the brilliant Ghyll Royd PTA. Children arrived...
Category Archives: Early Years
Primary School Places 2020
Hundreds of local schoolchildren receive their Primary School places on Thursday 16th April. This is an exciting time for parents as they wait to find out where their child will be attending from September. However, with growing state school pupil...
Dress Down Under Day raises £1000
An Ilkley Primary School pupil has helped raise £1,000 for the Australian Bushfire Relief. Sophie Barraclough from Ghyll Royd School wanted to help raise money for those affected by the devastating Australian bushfires so asked her teachers if she and...
Ghyll Royd Celebrates the Year of the Rat!
Ghyll Royd School and Pre-School celebrated the Year of the Rat with authentic and traditional activities including noodle tasting and language learning. In January we hosted a Chinese New Year Play Date. Reception set up a pop-up Chinese restaurant and...
Top 10 Sunday Times Parent Power League
The good news just keeps on coming here at Ghyll Royd! Pick up a copy of The Sunday Times (17/11/19) to see our school in the Parent Power Top 10 Independent Preparatory Schools list. The ranking is based on our...
Ilkley Nursery Celebration Afternoon
Ghyll Royd’s Pre-School children celebrated their time in Great Explorers with their families last week. Before the Summer holidays, Mrs Johnson and Miss King invited the Ilkley Nursery children and their parents to a ‘graduation’-style party in the School’s sports...
Independent Schools of the Year Awards 2019
Ghyll Royd School, Pre-School and Nursery have been shortlisted as one of the Top Independent Schools in the country – for a second consecutive year! We have been nominated for the Best Small School award, in the Independent Schools of...
Ghyll Royd Sports Day 2019
Ghyll Royd Sports Day is always great fun! This year included the hammer throw, a high jump heroine, a sibling 3-legged race and some amazing performances in the afternoon races. Well done to all the children who took part from...
50-Week Nursery!
We are delighted to announce that from September 2019, Ghyll Royd School and Pre-School’s Before School Care will start from the earlier time of 7.30am. We will also be opening our nursery for 50 weeks of the year! Our doors...
Ilkley Nursery visits Tropical World
Children at an Ilkley Nursery went on a magnificent minibeast trip this week. Little Adventurers, Great Explorers and Reception from Ghyll Royd enjoyed a sunny trip out to Roundhay to visit Tropical World. First of all, holding hands with...
