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Outdoor Classroom Day

The 18th of May marks Outdoor Classroom Day with over half a million schoolchildren taking part in the UK. At Ghyll Royd we are fortunate to call everyday Outdoor Classroom Day as we use our extensive grounds to host lessons,...

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Harlow Carr Trip

Reception and Key Stage One pupils took a wonderful trip to Harlow Carr this week. The gardens are one of four in the UK ran by the Royal Horticultural Society. Reception had a colour hunt in the grounds to try...

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Will it Sink or Float?

After a busy SATs week, Form 6 are continuing to show what they have learnt this year by presenting lessons to their classmates. Each pupil in Form 6 has created their own lesson to teach to the rest of the...

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Pupils Wow at the Wharfedale Festival

Pupils from Forms 2-6 presented a variety of poems at this year’s Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts. The Festival, in its 11th year, hosted the Verse Speaking rounds at the Craiglands Hotel in Ilkley, with several schools in the area taking...

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May Stay and Play!

See a collection of photos from Ghyll Royd Pre-School and Nursery’s weekly ‘Stay and Play’ sessions. See if you can spot yourself boogieing with Mrs Coultas or painting with Mrs Smith! Stay and Play runs between 9.30am and 11.00am on Fridays (term...

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Can You Smell A Picture?

Following on from last week’s Art lesson, Forms 1 and 2 had to use their imaginations to create great 3D pictures. This term’s Art lessons are all about using our senses with the natural environment. Today’s lesson was about touch...

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On Ilkley Road, I Saw…

To continue with their learning topic of travel and journeys, the Great Explorers and Reception class have conducted their very own traffic surveys. The children perched their clipboards against the fence by Ilkley Road and watched as many different vehicles...

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Phoebe’s Sponsored Walk

Phoebe C in Form 4 is feeling inspired after her Easter holiday to Nepal! After trekking with her family where she mets lots of Nepalese children, she felt that she wanted to help make a difference to the children who...

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Form 3 & 4 Art

Forms 3 and 4 are experimenting with clay in their Art lesson to create some fantastic pottery bobble heads. Did you know Chef Sean is also a ceramicist? He kindly brought in his clay press to help Mrs Smith flatten and...

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Spanish Word Search!

To test how much Forms 1 and 2 have learned in Spanish this year, Mrs Smith sent the children on a word hunt in the School playground. We gathered around Mrs Smith as she explained the objective of our Spanish lesson....