Form Two used their senses to describe the school grounds in an outdoor, multisensory English lesson. Here are a couple of their poems. Poem 1 I can see a huge, massive, colossal, thick tree. I can hear the humming of...
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Tree Dressing Challenge – Eco Schools Day
Ghyll Royd School are just a few points away from reaching Gold level in the Woodland Trust’s Green Tree Schools Award. The Trust reward schools for completing environmental projects and encouraging outdoor learning, enhancing school’s green credentials and inspiring young...
Habitat Hunt
Miss Brown set Forms 1 and 2 the task of finding five different mini beasts in the School’s woodland for their Thursday afternoon Science lesson! On a sheet of paper were 3 columns where pupils had to find and draw...
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,...
Maths x Outdoors + Sun = A Great Lesson!
Mr Nicholson took learning outdoors on Wednesday morning to practice Algebra with Form 5. We were each given a piece of paper with the following task written on it: ‘Using the outdoors, design and build a model of a square-based...
Thinking Outside the Classroom
Mr Laycock took Form 4 outside for a problem-solving Maths time challenge. In pairs or groups of three, we had a series of Maths questions we had to find the answers to. For example: George had 19 stickers that he...
