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VE Day 8 May 2025

VE Day 8 May 2025

To celebrate VE day, the children in Reception had a wonderful and educational afternoon participating in activities reflective of those which took place on May 8th 1945 - the first VE day to celebrate the ending of WW2. The children enjoyed their informative assembly...

Clay modelling May 2025

Clay modelling May 2025

This half term in Art, children in class 7 have been learning about clay modelling. The children enjoyed learning techniques to model the clay into different shapes and discussing the different features of animals for Y1s and thumb pots for Y2s. The children were very...

‘Why is Water Wet?’ May 2025

‘Why is Water Wet?’ May 2025

This half term Nursery has been focusing on the topic "Why is Water Wet?" We have been exploring this through enjoying water play, creating collages of rain drops and turtles and developing our fine motor skills by painting sea creatures. We have also been learning...

Easter April 2025

Easter April 2025

The children in Reception have been enjoying Easter themed activities during the last two weeks. We have been writing sentences to describe some sparkly eggs, have been practising counting how many eggs there are altogether from two groups and fed the Easter bunny...

Easter April 2025

Easter April 2025

The children in Reception have been enjoying Easter themed activities during the last two weeks.  We have been writing sentences to describe some sparkly eggs, have been practising counting how many eggs there are altogether from two groups and fed the Easter bunny...

Easter April 2025

Easter April 2025

Reception children had an "eggcellent" time on Wednesday 26th March completing the ‘Best Decorated Egg’, and 'Easter Bonnet/Hat parade'. In addition to this the Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children also took part in an ‘Egg Rolling’ activity. It was fantastic to see...

Easter April 2025

Easter April 2025

Children in 2 year old provision had an "eggcellent" time completing the ‘Best Decorated Egg’, and 'Easter Bonnet/Hat parade'. In addition to this the Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children also took part in an ‘Egg Rolling’ activity. It was fantastic to see the...

‘Learn a New Skill’ March 2025

‘Learn a New Skill’ March 2025

Key Stage 1 held a ‘learn a new skill’ afternoon and invited parents / carers in to share this experience. The children completed three 30 minute stations consisting of first aid, archery and team building. The children were excited to learn the skills of archery. The...

Red Nose Day March  2025

Red Nose Day March 2025

Thank you for your donations made as part of Red Nose day on Friday 21st March. Thanks to your generosity we raised £159.50. Comic Relief continues to make a difference to the lives of millions of people across the UK and around the world. Comic Relief believes “that...

World Book Day March 2025

World Book Day March 2025

Year 1 and Year 2 have had a fabulous World Book Day! The children came in a variety of amazing costumes and were excited to show each other who they had come as! This year we focused on the book 'Tidy' by Emily Gravett. After reading the story, we were joined by...

World Book Day March 2025

World Book Day March 2025

This week in Nursery we have been celebrating world book week! The children have been listening to the story 'Elmer' by David McKee. We have talked about the word 'unique', and the children have enjoyed learning that we are all different and that being unique is a...

World Book Day March 2025

World Book Day March 2025

Our world book day story was Handa’s Surprise.  The children enjoyed doing various activities around this book such as balancing baskets on their heads, making their favourite fruits with various craft materials.  Introducing new language by learning about new fruits...

‘How many colours in a rainbow?’

‘How many colours in a rainbow?’

This half-term we are learning our topic 'how many colours are in a rainbow?'  Class 2 has been busy getting creative by painting our own rainbows.  We have also really enjoyed a science experiment where we added warm water to skittles and watched the colours travel...

Nursery Rhymes Feb 2025

Nursery Rhymes Feb 2025

This half term, children have begun learning familiar nursery rhymes on the xylophones. Class 9 children have focussed incredibly hard and they have ensured they followed the rhythm of the song and played the correct keys. Playing the xylophone helps to develop...

Modroc Feb 2025

Modroc Feb 2025

Recently the children in class 8 have been using modroc to create sculptures. The Year 1 children enjoyed making their snakes and the Year 2 children loved making their animal masks. To use the modroc effectively, children had to dip the strips of modroc into water,...

Animation – Feb 2025

Animation – Feb 2025

During this half term, the children in class 7 have thoroughly enjoyed producing their own Animation. They started by choosing characters such as a shark and a lifeguard, or a monkey and a zoo-keeper, and a suitable background such as the ocean or the zoo to name a...

Safety Week Jan 25 – Fire

Safety Week Jan 25 – Fire

Children at Royd are currently taking part in a 'safety week' where a range of people will be visiting school including the police, paramedics, lollipop lady and an online safety worker. This week a member of the fire service visited us. They told us that it was...