Reception had all the fun of the fair in their playground by turning their Mathematics lesson into a fun carnival game! The children rolled a dice then had to double that number using their two times tables. When they worked...
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Homemakers!
To round off their Science lessons before half term, Forms 1 and 2 made their own habitats. They looked at where minibeasts and bugs lived out in the woodland area of Greystone Manor last month, and also got up close...
How Do You Describe a Film Trailer?
Mr Nicholson’s Form 5 class put their creative writing skills to the test by writing audio descriptions for film trailers. William said: “We’ve written audio descriptions for the ‘Titanic’ film trailer which describes what is happening on the screen.” Phoebe...
Puppy Love
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...
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...
