“You could write a book on all the things we did to celebrate World Book Day!” beamed Mr Martin. The school organised several activities to encourage the whole School to read and celebrate their favourite stories. Extreme reading The children...
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Young Poets Published!
Ghyll Royd’s Key Stage 1 classes have had their work published in a national poetry book! Congratulations to the 12 boys and girls published in the Young Writers ‘Poetry Monsters’ book! Our children are the only Key Stage 1 pupils published,...
Year 6 Storytellers
Form 6 pupils got creative making their own storybooks in their last few English lessons at Ghyll Royd. They could choose any topic, genre or idea they wanted to explore. Each child pitched a story idea to the class and...
Handwriting Competition Winner
Sophie in Form 4 impressed Rotary Club members with her beautiful handwriting! The annual Ilkley Rotary Club Handwriting Competition encourages schoolchildren in Year 4 to submit handwritten pieces to display their best penmanship. There is an overall winning school and...
Form 6 Pupils Accepted to Hogwarts!
Children in Form 6 have all received their entrance letters to Hogwarts this week! Mr Coleman and Mrs Marshall have been teaching the class all about the brilliant fantasy story of Harry Potter. In their most recent English lesson, pupils...
Outdoor Poetry
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...
‘The Sound Collector’ by Roger McGough
Here is a video of some of our Year 2’s performing ‘The Sound Collector’ by Roger McGough. They learnt this poem off by heart as part of their English poetry unit. A stranger called this morning Dressed all in black...
How Do You Describe a Film Trailer?
Mr Nicholson’s Form 5 class put their creative writing skills to the test by writing audio descriptions for film trailers. William said: “We’ve written audio descriptions for the ‘Titanic’ film trailer which describes what is happening on the screen.” Phoebe...
Can You Sea the See?
Form 2 went on a hunt for the correct homophones in the adventure playground for their English lesson on Thursday. Dotted around the playground were cards which had a number on one side which corresponded to a sentence on their...
Remembrance Day Assembly
In Friday’s assembly pupils presented what they had learnt during Poppy Week. Every year leading up to Remembrance Day, Ghyll Royd School holds Poppy Week to get children thinking about the significance of the events in the First and Second World...
