In Great Explorers we are learning about pets, how we look after them and what sort of animals we keep in our homes. We met some wacky and exotic animals last week when Sam’s Safaris came to visit, and this...
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Can You Taste Colour?
Little Adventurers took a trip to Billy Bob’s Ice Cream Parlour on Monday morning – a great way to start the week! We were buckled into our car seats on the minibus and headed out on an adventure. We arrived...
Sam’s Safaris Come to Play!
Creepy crawlies and cuddly critters came along to Ghyll Royd School for the Nursery’s latest Play Date event on Friday 2nd February. Ghyll Royd hosted Sam’s Safaris, an educational animal programme which allows children the chance to get up close...
Sweetie Snowmen
Reception class mixed, moulded and made snowmen in their Learning Challenge lesson as they discover more about Winter. In the creating and baking segment of their learning challenge, pupils mixed icing sugar with condensed milk and desiccated coconut to create...
Form 6 Are All Ears For Their Younger Peers
Now that Form 6’s Secondary School Entrance Exams have finished, the children were able to spend time with younger peers in Key Stage One. The pupils arrived in the Manor House, where they were keen to listen to the younger...
S-swings A-and S-slides!
Great Explorers are s-sounding out ‘a’ and ‘s’ in their phonics lessons this week. We have been learning about the ‘a’ sound and the ‘s’ sound. We coloured in an ‘S’ shaped snake, and using the whiteboard we drew out...
Swedish Pen Pals
Children from Rångedala School, an elementary school in Borås, Sweden have sent letters to our Form 6 class. The letter exchange was organised by Ghyll Royd’s Specialist Art Teacher Miss Smith and Rångedala’s Art Teacher Ms Nicola Fast. Pupils have...
World Religion Day 2018
Each Form explored the beliefs and traditions of a different religion for World Religion Day last week. In Forms 1 and 2, pupils focused on Buddhism. The children looked at the Eightfold Path: the eight different ways of practicing Buddhism...
Do You Wanna Build a Snowman…Biscuit?
Great Explorers enjoyed icing their own melted snowman biscuits with Miss Coulton on Friday. As the children continue to learn about the polar regions, they each had a digestive biscuit to ice and decorate. The snowman’s head was made out...
Which Carries More Water?
Reception’s learning challenge topic this term focuses on Winter Weather. In their Maths lesson, pupils used their own bottles to see which container held more water. The children would fill up their water bottles from the tap then pour it...
