A foundation for life
Ghyll Royd School and Pre-School has been awarded a Gold Award by the National Woodland Trust. The Ilkley Primary School has been awarded for its consistent involvement in green activities including tree planting, visiting local woodland, reducing carbon emissions through...
Ghyll Royd School held an Eco Schools Day with the Woodland Trust to reach Gold level in the Green Tree Schools Award scheme. Pupils from Forms 1-6 spent the whole day outside learning and exploring in their outdoor classroom, completing...
To build towards our Gold level in the Woodland Trust’s Green Tree Schools Award, pupils from Forms 1 to 6 spent the whole day outside for Ghyll Royd’s Eco Schools Day. To start the day, Forms 1 and 2 celebrated...
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...
Forms 1 and 2’s first Forest Schools session of the year had the sun shining brightly in the sky, which gave our teacher Mrs Wood a great idea! Mrs Wood brought out a big piece of tarpaulin and held it...
Each term we welcome Mrs Woods to Ghyll Royd who teaches valuable skills through outdoor learning. Children from ages 3-11 each enjoy their Forest School lesson where they can grow in confidence, and enhance their communication and concentration skills as...
In English this term, Form 5 have been studying ‘The Convergence of the Twain’ by Thomas Hardy and creating sea poems. Mr Nicholson organised a spellbinding English lesson to test our vocabulary and explore the different words that can be...
School days are always fun, but we really look forward to seeing Mrs Woods — our Forest Schools Teacher! She came to Ghyll Royd to teach Forms 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 all about the outdoors. We wrapped up...
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...
