A foundation for life
Ghyll Royd School celebrated its 130th Anniversary with a sell-out celebration ball last month. We invited staff, governors, parents, local business owners and former pupils to join in with our celebrations at the Cavendish Pavilion on Saturday 14th December. Over...
Year 6 enjoyed a trip to the Henry VII Experience in York last week to learn about Crime and Punishment in the Tudor times! Their Learning Challenge questions for the Autumn term are ‘How did the Tudors shape modern Britain?’...
Forms 5 and 6 have created their very own kilts with Mrs Smith in their Art lessons this term. With the help of the wonderful Mrs Cook, the children have created these brilliant garments which they kindly modeled for us...
Form 3 experienced life during World War II in Mr Laycock’s classroom on Wednesday. Pupils went back over 80 years to understand what life was like in the late 1930s during the outbreak of the Second World War. Mr Laycock...
In Art this term, Forms 3 and 4 have been getting messy with modrock! Using sheets of modrock, pupils layered up their design over a basic mask shape to create unique faces. The masks represented different Greek Gods to coincide...
Last week Forms 5 and 6 journeyed to Liverpool to learn about the Fab 4! We went to the Beatles Story Museum in Liverpool to find out more about the culture and music of the 1960s. For our learning challenge,...
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...
Forms 3 and 4 wrapped up lessons before half term by literally wrapping each other up! We have been focusing on Ancient Egypt as part of our learning topic: ‘What would you see on a trip down the Nile?’ In...
Form 5 went to meet historian Alex Cockshott from Ilkley Civic Society to learn more about Ilkley’s Victorian heritage. When Victoria first became Queen, there were only 100 houses in Ilkley; at the end of her reign there were 1000....
