During Arts Week, the children in Reception did lots of art activities based around the book 'Rumble in the Jungle' We made lots of different animals in different ways - bubble wrap painting for tigers, collage materials for a crocodile and handprint elephants to name a few! We also made leaves using clay. The children [...]
The children have had a fantastic morning during our 'stay and play'. Parents and carers were invited into school to take part in lots of fun activities linked to our topic 'Which is the biggest dinosaur?' The children enjoyed activities including printing dinosaurs using Duplo blocks, making dinosaur skeletons and using collage materials to create [...]
Reading brings many benefits to children including developing vocabulary and enhancing imagination, creativity and language skills. To create opportunities to develop reading further, the children have enjoyed a trip to Stocksbridge Library. During the visit, the children enjoyed looking at different books, having a story with the library staff and they also got to take [...]
The children in class 1 and class 2 have worked really hard this academic year and staff thought the children deserved a treat. As part of save or spend the children focussed on keeping their classroom tidy and earned some money for their hard work. The children decided that they wanted a picnic with their [...]
This week, the children at Royd Nursery Infants have celebrated the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. This year marks her 70 years of reign across the country. The children have celebrated in style with a royal tea party with their friends, enjoying snacks and music. They have been busy designing and making flags and [...]
The children completed their last Forest Schools session today. As part of yesterday's session they enjoyed participating in running races so much that we decided to have more races today. They then made their very own woodland flags. The children used natural materials and mixed it together with water before decorating their flags. The children have thoroughly [...]
Children attended session three of Forest Schools today. The children are so confident at relaying how to stay safe in the woodlands. It has been brilliant to see the children's confidence grow in the space of a few days. As part of today's session the children made a den for their woodland creature. They also [...]
As part of day two the children recapped how to stay safe in the woodlands. In order to build the children's confidence, they completed two activities from yesterday. They explored the woodlands and then found their name cards that were hidden. After that the children fetched water from the stream and they added items into [...]
The children in Reception had a fantastic time at forest schools. They were taught how to stay safe in the woodlands and spot potential hazards. They also looked at staying within certain boundaries. The children were then given time to explore the woodlands and use their imagination. Finally, the teacher hid the children’s name cards [...]
Today the children had a fantastic day where all of their learning was based around the story 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' by Eric Carle, to link with our 'Why do spiders eat flies?' topic. We shared the story and talked about how the caterpillar is born from an egg and then once it has grown [...]
