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...
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Forest Schools 2017
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...
Pre-School Set Sail!
Great Explorers and Reception have set sail on their learning topic for the term, ‘What lives on and under the sea?’ When we returned to school on Monday there was a giant bottle in our classroom with a piece of...
Spellbinding, Sophisticated Vocabulary!
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...
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,...
Middleton Woods Visit
Great Explorers have been investigating and exploring the environment of our local area by visiting Middleton Woods to look at the flowering Bluebells. The children really enjoyed walking through the ‘carpets’ of bluebells and using lots of descriptive words to...
All Things Bright and Beautiful!
For Form 1 and 2’s Art lesson, Mrs Smith took the children outside to discover what beautiful, natural colours can be found outdoors. In pairs, we had a palette with a different piece of coloured paper in each section. Mrs Smith...
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...
Branching Out of the Classroom
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...
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...
