Latest News/Events

The school councils from Royd Nursery Infant School and Deepcar St John's CE Junior School visited Stocksbridge Town Council as part of this academic year's elections. The children discussed a range of things that they felt were important to them and the local...

Year 1 and Year 2 children have enjoyed an afternoon of celebrating children's talents in our 'Royd's Got Talent' show. Some children displayed amazing courage and bravery getting up on stage and we saw performances such as singing, gymnastics, dancing, telling jokes...

The Sheffield Children's University Passport to Learning newsletter which includes details of activities happening across the city during the February half term holidays is now available! You find a copy of the newsletter attached to the email, but here is a link to...

Royd Nursery Infant School were absolutely honoured to host a special assembly for Jackie to celebrate her being awarded a British Empire Medal. Jackie shared with the children her letter from King Charles III and the newspaper article that reported why she had...

The internet is a superb tool to use when used safely. However, if not used properly it can be extremely dangerous. As part of safety week a member of the Online Safety Team for Sheffield supported the school in delivering a talk to our pupils. Whilst we encourage...

As part of safety week a nurse visited Royd. Following on from the nurses visit we discussed with the children the importance of being able to dial 999 in the event of an emergency. Please spend time with your child showing them...

As we all know Jackie does a fabulous job of keeping our children safe when crossing the road. As part of safety week Jackie came into school to deliver a workshop for our children. There were a number of children that commented that they cross further down and don't...

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...

Well done children on achieving 96.5% attendance and punctuality in the Autumn term. Having high attendance has a vast amount of benefits. 78.7% of children that have 100% attendance go on to achieve 5+ GCSEs including English and Maths. Setting good attendance...

A huge congratulations to Jacqueline (Jackie) on being awarded a British Empire Medal for services to the community. We are very proud of your achievements Jackie! The Star reported “Also recognised by King Charles III in his first New Year’s Honours since ascending...

In Autumn 2 the children in Key Stage 1 have learnt all about 'Incarnation: the birth of Jesus” as part of Religious Education. They have explored the religion Christianity and learnt about the meaning behind Christmas. The children know that Christians believe...

A huge thank you to all that attended the Key Stage 1 Christmas performance. It meant the world to the children that they could perform for you. We hope that you enjoyed the musical aspect combined with the story of the “Hoity Toity Angel” who always creates lots of...

This half term, class 7's indoor PE focus has been around 'dance'.  Through dance, children develop a greater range of movement whilst developing the ability to work within different spaces. They learn to interpret the effect their movement has on the world around...

In Reception we not only want our children to be confident and fluent readers, but to have a love for reading as well. We engage our children in reading in many different ways, including; phonics, shared read sessions where we focus on the same book for 2 weeks, daily...

In Rainbow Room we have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes. We have looked at their properties, made pictures using 2D shapes and built models with 3D shapes. We realised that shapes are everywhere so we decided to go around school on a hunt for 3D shapes. Here are ...

In our 2 year provision over the last few weeks we began doing activities around Autumn and our theme 'why do leaves go crispy'. The children have enjoyed doing various activities such as leaf printing which allows children to explore how printing works and gives them...

Royd Nursery Infant School have completed the annual ‘Switch Off Fortnight’ campaign and children across school have loved learning about saving energy! As a Green Flag, with distinction, Eco School, we understand the importance of promoting wastage and reducing our...

Yesterday, all of our Reception children set off on an adventure to Stocksbridge Library and what a fun afternoon we had! The children walked their socks off on the way there and enjoyed talking about the different things they could see. When we got there the children...