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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...

In Computing, KS1 children have been focussing on developing their mouse skills to replicate an image. We have been using a variety of drawing tools and shapes on the Paint programme, including filling, erasing and enlarging a shape. It takes a lot of...

On Tuesday 27th September, Year 1 and 2 were invited to participate in a fun run challenge over at Deepcar St John's. We started off with an aerobics warm up before beginning the fun run. The children were encouraged to run, jog, skip and walk whilst counting how many...

As staff we would like to give all parents / carers and children a warm welcome back. We hope that you had a fantastic summer. We are honoured to serve you as a community and it is a privilege to have your child(ren) attend Royd Nursery Infant School. All staff...

Thank you to everyone who contributed to our “Wacky Hair” fundraising event that we held. The children really enjoyed this event. We are amazed at the effort that parents / carers and children went to. We really do have creative families attend Royd Nursery Infant...

What a fantastic half term we have had in reception! The children have worked incredibly hard, adapting to new rules and routines, making and developing friendships  and learning lots of new things. We have been very busy finding out about each other and our families...

The children’s topic this half term is ‘Muck, Mess and Mixtures’. As part of their Science learning, the children have been looking at different materials (metal, wood, plastic, glass) and their properties (e.g. rigid, flexible, hard, smooth, transparent, shiny, dull,...

In our 2-year provision over the last couple of weeks we began doing activities around our theme ‘Why do you love me so much! This is a lovely topic as it’s around ‘All about me’.  Our adult led craft was around doing self-portraits.  They really enjoyed looking at...

The children in Class 9 have loved getting stuck into their dance lessons as part of PE this half-term! Our focus is fairytales and our magic quest has been to rescue the unicorns from the evil wizard! We started by marching to find the evil wizard's cave but when the...

Over the school summer holidays Stocksbridge Library offered our children to take part in a reading challenge. The children had to visit the library 4 times and read at least 6 books. Children could also collect bookmarks, stickers, pencils and if they completed the...

A huge congratulations to our “lunchtime” team for achieving the top hygiene standards rating yet again. The team achieved 5 stars which means that “hygiene standards are very good”. In order to achieve this rating, the inspection looks at: handling of food, how food...