Category Archives: School News

Ilkley Primary School Places 2021

Hundreds of local schoolchildren receive their Primary School places on Friday 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...

Goodbye to Lockdown!

Over the weekend, Year 5 created Lockdown Memory Jars by writing their favourite memories on slips of paper. They also took the opportunity to write about the negatives and those times they found frustrating. The first thing the class did...

Remote Learning Rockstars!

On Monday 4th January 2021, the Prime Minister announced that all schools were to close physically except for children of key workers. Our nursery and pre-school has remained open and the school is open for key worker children, with the...

Santa visited Ghyll Royd School pupils for a fun filled day

Santa needs our help!

Ghyll Royd children went to investigate what had happened to their school hall on Tuesday 8th December to find a very sad elf called Molly who had crashed Santa’s sleigh! It was the work of the naughty Gremlin who caused...

Fangtastic Fun at Ghyll Royd

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...

Five junior artists in National Finals

Pupils from Ghyll Royd School are celebrating winning five awards at the Independent School Association (ISA) Regional Art Competition. The ISA runs a number of annual competitions for its 535 member schools including Essay, Drama and Art, to give pupils the opportunity...

We are Finalists!

Ghyll Royd School, Pre-School and Nursery has been announced as a finalist in the Independent Schools of the Year Awards 2020. This is the third time the Burley-in-Wharfedale school has been shortlisted in the awards, and the second consecutive year...