Reception and Key Stage One pupils took a wonderful trip to Harlow Carr this week. The gardens are one of four in the UK ran by the Royal Horticultural Society. Reception had a colour hunt in the grounds to try...
Tag Archives: Ilkley - Page 29
Will it Sink or Float?
After a busy SATs week, Form 6 are continuing to show what they have learnt this year by presenting lessons to their classmates. Each pupil in Form 6 has created their own lesson to teach to the rest of the...
Pupils Wow at the Wharfedale Festival
Pupils from Forms 2-6 presented a variety of poems at this year’s Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts. The Festival, in its 11th year, hosted the Verse Speaking rounds at the Craiglands Hotel in Ilkley, with several schools in the area taking...
May Stay and Play!
See a collection of photos from Ghyll Royd Pre-School and Nursery’s weekly ‘Stay and Play’ sessions. See if you can spot yourself boogieing with Mrs Coultas or painting with Mrs Smith! Stay and Play runs between 9.30am and 11.00am on Fridays (term...
On Ilkley Road, I Saw…
To continue with their learning topic of travel and journeys, the Great Explorers and Reception class have conducted their very own traffic surveys. The children perched their clipboards against the fence by Ilkley Road and watched as many different vehicles...
Phoebe’s Sponsored Walk
Phoebe C in Form 4 is feeling inspired after her Easter holiday to Nepal! After trekking with her family where she mets lots of Nepalese children, she felt that she wanted to help make a difference to the children who...
Form 3 & 4 Art
Forms 3 and 4 are experimenting with clay in their Art lesson to create some fantastic pottery bobble heads. Did you know Chef Sean is also a ceramicist? He kindly brought in his clay press to help Mrs Smith flatten and...
Spanish Word Search!
To test how much Forms 1 and 2 have learned in Spanish this year, Mrs Smith sent the children on a word hunt in the School playground. We gathered around Mrs Smith as she explained the objective of our Spanish lesson....
Drum Roll Please…
Bryony in Form 4 has passed her drum exam with a Distinction! She received close to full marks for all her pieces which includes sight reading, musicianship tests and ear tests. Music Teacher Mrs Coultas said: “Bryony has worked incredibly...
Super-callig-fragilistic
Mrs Smith held the very first Calligraphy Club session on Monday lunchtime. Key Stage Two pupils were invited to try their hand at writing the alphabet using two attached pencils. Doodling with double pencils is a very good introduction to...
