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Spring Topic March 2026
This half-term the children in class 2 have been learning all about farms, life cycles and Spring. We have thoroughly enjoyed having eggs in the classroom that we have watched hatch and grow into chicks. We have been practising our phonics, learning lots of new...
Spring Topic March 2026
Well, we have definitely sprung into Spring in Class 1, with a very busy start to this half term. So far this half term we have celebrated Chinese New Year and Eid. We thought about similarities and differences when discussing other cultures and traditions and we...
The Gruffalo
For World Book Day/Week, our nursery children immersed themselves in the magic of The Gruffalo—listening intently to the story, joyfully reciting its rhythm and rhyme, and bringing it to life through imaginative role play. Together they crafted colourful collages,...
Library Visit Feb 2026
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 in Class 2 have enjoyed a trip to Stocksbridge Library. During the...
Stay & Play Feb 2026
The children in the 2 year old provision really enjoyed having their parents and family members come and join us for our stay and play sessions. We had many activities to do around our current topic “Where does the snow go?”. We made snowy owl pictures, built a...
Stay & Play Feb 2026
We had a fantastic stay and play in Reception. The children got very busy with all the different 'wintery' themed activities available. Everyone enjoyed the craft activities and produced some lovely polar bears, snow globes and melting snowmen. The children also had...
Dentist Visit Reception Jan 2026
At Royd we teach the children all about the importance of having healthy teeth. We start this learning with our youngest children in school, as we know and understand the benefits of looking after our teeth and this starts by looking after our baby teeth. Some of the...
Snow and Winter Weather Jan 2026
This term in Nursery, we have been exploring snow and winter weather through play and discovery. In the maths area, we have been matching quantities to numerals, and in the mark making area we have been drawing and creating snowflakes. In the creative area, we have...
Dentist Visit
At Royd we teach the children all about the importance of having healthy teeth. We start this learning with our youngest children in school, as we know and understand the benefits of looking after our teeth and this starts by looking after our baby teeth. Some of the...
Stay & Play Nov 2025
It was great to see our Nursery parents come and join us for a stay and play session earlier this term. The children love to show their parents all of the wonderful things that they get up to whilst they are with us here and allow their parents to join in with them...
Healthy Teeth
At Royd we teach the children all about the importance of having healthy teeth. We start this learning with our youngest children in school, as we know and understand the benefits of looking after our teeth and this starts by looking after our baby teeth. Some of the...
Nursery Christmas Party
We enjoyed having delicious snacks, watching 'The Snowman' and playing party games like musical statues. We even had a special visitor who attended our party, it was Father Christmas! He brought us a present to play with in nursery, it was some brilliant magnetic...
Where does the snow go?
Our new topic this term is “Where does the snow go?”. So far, the children have enjoyed exploring various activities and resources on offer. We have made use of the cold weather and brought ice in from outside into the setting. The children enjoyed exploring the ice,...
Reception Christmas Party
Children in Reception had a fabulous time at their Christmas party. They thoroughly enjoyed playing traditional party games, watching a Christmas movie and eating party food. Who doesn’t love a party! We had lots of positive feedback with one child saying “This is the...
‘The Festival of Light’
In Class One we have had a busy start to the new term. As well as continuing our learning and understanding of Diwali 'The Festival of Light' we have started to think more about the season of Autumn and what changes we have noticed including, change in colours, the...
‘What is a shadow?’
This term in Nursery we have been busy exploring our new topic 'What is a shadow?'. The children have been very imaginative pretending to be Witches and Wizards in our mark making area, creating some very creepy silly soups! The children loved drawing various things...
Autumn 2 topic Nov 2025
The children in class 2 have been having lots of fun participating in different activities linked to our new topic which is all about autumn. They have been using their art skills to create autumn trees and hedgehogs. We have also been developing our fine motor...
Library Visit Nov 2025
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...
Stay & Play Nov 2025
It was great to see our Nursery parents come and join us for a stay and play session earlier this term. The children love to show their parents all of the wonderful things that they get up to whilst they are with us here and allow their parents to join in with them...
Storyteller
The children had a lovely and exciting visit to school from local author, Suzy Senior. She read us three of her stories – ‘Octopants’, ‘How to spot a dinosaur’ and ‘Banana hunt’. The children really enjoyed listening to Suzy’s stories and also enjoyed joining in with...
Storyteller
The children in Nursery had a fantastic opportunity to listen to a storyteller today named Suzy Senior. The children enjoyed listening to some of her stories that she has written and published such as Octopants, How to spot a dinosaur and Banana Hunt. It was great to...
Storyteller
The children had a lovely and exciting visit to school from local author, Suzy Senior. She read us three of her stories - 'Octopants', 'How to spot a dinosaur' and 'Banana hunt'. The children really enjoyed listening to Suzy's stories and also enjoyed joining in with...
‘Why do you love me so much?’
What a wonderful start to the new school year it has been so far this term. This term in Nursery, we have welcomed some new faces to our class and have worked on exploring our environment and sharing our nursery toys, whilst learning new names of our friends. The...
DT Lesson
Class 9 have been working extremely hard in their DT lessons this half term. The children first explored healthy foods and healthy eating, learning about the different food groups and how they can impact our bodies. We also explored where our food comes from and the...
Class 8 Rugby Lesson
Children in class 8 have been enjoying learning the skills to play rugby in their PE lessons. In the first few weeks of this half term, children learnt how to hold the ball and pass to their partner. This week, children have learnt to kick the ball and they have been...
Fascinating world of materials
The children in Class 7 have been exploring the fascinating world of materials in science this half term. They have been exploring and discovering how everyday objects are made, what they are made from and what they are used for. They have learnt that plastic is a...
‘Why do you love me so much?’
The children in class 2 have had a wonderful start to their time in Reception. This half-term our topic is 'why do you love me so much?' The children have been participating in numerous activities, including sharing their treasure boxes from home, creating their own...
‘Why do you love me so much’
The children in Class One have had a fantastic start to the year and they have all settled into their new routines really well. The children have continued to develop friendships, old and new, and have enjoyed sharing lots of fun experiences together. We are so proud...
‘Can we explore it?’
The children in class 2 have had a great time learning about dinosaurs as part of our 'can we explore it?' topic. They have produced some amazing descriptive sentences about dinosaurs, explored ordering numbers both forwards and backwards using dinosaur footprints,...
Whirlow Farm June 2025
The Year 2 children had an amazing time on their residential at Whirlow Hall Farm on Wednesday 18th - Friday 20th June. They all enjoyed the farm tour and farm jobs which included feeding the animals, petting the animals and learning about what they like to eat and...