Did you know?
Royd Nursery Infant School holds the Artsmark Gold Award! The Artsmark is a nationally recognised award and celebrates excellence in delivering culture and creativity across the whole curriculum. The Artsmark sets out quality principles for schools to embed in their provision of Art including; striving for excellence and innovation, being authentic, creating a positive and inclusive experience and being exciting, inspiring and engaging. Royd Nursery Infant School provides a vast range of experiences that include: annual arts week, choir, skill specific training for staff, visitors such as trained artists, dancers and musicians as well as creating a rock band with the support of Rock Steady to name but a few. Royd used the ‘Self-Assessment Framework’ to provide children with the best possible art and cultural learning experiences. This has enabled our children to broaden their knowledge and experiences of the world including other countries, cultures and time periods. To support this, we have worked with professional artists, musicians and dancers and strong working relationships have been developed. Through experiences of industry professionals visiting Royd, children have developed an understanding that through the arts there are endless job opportunities and careers. Children have developed their leadership skills and have driven their own learning. They have further developed their leadership skills by taking on roles in performances linked to dance and music. There have been many other benefits where children have development of team work, creativity and self- confidence.
