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Year 2 Library Visit
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...
Save or Spend
The children in Year 1 and Year 2 have worked really hard this year and staff thought the children deserved a treat. As part of save or spend, the children focused on doing good listening, lining up and demonstrating good learning behaviours throughout school. The...
Platinum Jubilee Celebrations!
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...
Save or spend
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...
Queen’s Jubilee
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...
Queen’s Jubilee
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...
Forest School Friday 27 May 22 Day 4
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...
Forest School 26 May 22 Day 3
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...
Forest School Tuesday 24 May 22 Day 2
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...
Science afternoons!
This week children in Year 1 and Year 2 have enjoyed two science afternoons. These included an investigation based on finding out which materials have the most/least friction, an experiment testing whether a gyrocopter will fall faster or slower to the ground if more...
Forest School Monday 23 May 22 – Day 1
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...
Stocksbridge Town Council Design a Jubilee Flag Competition May 2022
Royd Nursery Infant School took part in designing a flag to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee as part of Stocksbridge Town Councils celebratory event. The design created and made by children at Royd Nursery Infant School is positioned in the top right hand corner...
Magic Monday and Thursday in Nursery
The children in nursery this week have taken part in magic Monday and Thursday. The children have explored the Easi-speak microphones learning some new skills including how to turn them on and off, record themselves and play back their recording. The children have...
Magic Monday
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...
Science week in Nursery
This week the children in Nursery have been having lots of fun learning a range of science based activities. They have learnt about Sea Pollution and the effects this has on wildlife. The children have been brilliant at recognising plastic objects which they found...
Stocksbridge Town Council Competition May 2022
As part of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, Stocksbridge Town Council has set up numerous events for the local community. Royd Nursery Infant School were recently presented with a Rose Bush that some of our children planted on the school grounds to mark the occasion. The...
Science Day
The children in Reception enjoyed a Science day where we took part in different experiments throughout the day. We really enjoyed learning about how plants need soil, warmth, sunlight and water to grow. Then we planted our own plants in our outdoor area. We are...
Aerobics
Children at Royd participated in a 30-minute aerobics session this afternoon. As a school, we aim to provide a minimum of 30 minutes of physical activity each day (this is separate to the 2 hours of Physical Education that the children participate in each week). As...
Easter Celebrations!
The children had an "eggciting" day taking part in a range of Easter activities including the ‘Best Decorated Egg’, ‘Egg Rolling’ and 'Easter Bonnet/Hat parade'. It was "eggcellent" seeing the fantastic creations that both you are your child completed. Thank you for...
Easter festivities!
The children had an "eggciting" day taking part in a range of Easter activities including the ‘Best Decorated Egg’, ‘Egg Rolling’ and 'Easter Bonnet/Hat parade'. It was "eggcellent" seeing the fantastic creations that both you are your child completed. Thank you for...
Easter
The children had an "eggciting" day taking part in a range of Easter activities including the ‘Best Decorated Egg’, ‘Egg Rolling’ and 'Easter Bonnet/Hat parade'. It was "eggcellent" seeing the fantastic creations that both you are your child completed. Thank you for...
Living Eggs
The children had an exciting delivery of some living eggs. We really enjoyed watching the eggs whilst they were in the incubator to see if we could spot any cracks in the shells. It was so exciting watching the chicks hatch from the eggs. We learnt that the chick uses...
Sheffield Children’s University – Bronze Award March 2022
Congratulations to the two children that have received the bronze award from the Sheffield Children's University. In order to achieve the bronze award the children had to attend more than 30 hours of learning activities. Many of these activities were accessed as part...
Values – Respecting Others 25 March 2022
As part of “Celebration Assembly” on a Friday school celebrate children’s achievements. Children are rewarded for their hard work and quality of their work through receiving the Reader, Writer and Mathematician of the week t-shirts that they wear proudly during...
Creature Ark March 2022
The children in Foundation Stage One and Two had a very exciting day today as they were visited by lots of different animals. As part of our 'Why do spiders eat flies?' topic; the children were able to meet lots of different creatures including a corn snake called...
Creature Ark
The children...
Creatures Ark
The children in Foundation Stage One and Two had a very exciting day today as they were visited by lots of different animals. As part of our 'Why do spiders eat flies?' topic; the children were able to meet lots of different creatures including a corn snake called...
Sheffield Children’s University – Easter Activities April 2022
The Sheffield Children's University Passport to Learning newsletter which includes details of activities happening across the city during the Easter holidays is now available! CU Passport Activity Newsletter - Easter 2022 It’s packed full of fun activities happening...
Reader, Writer and Mathematician of the week 25 March 2022
As part of “Celebration Assembly” on a Friday school celebrate children’s achievements. Children are rewarded for their hard work and quality of their work through receiving the Reader, Writer and Mathematician of the week t-shirts that they wear proudly during...
Values – Collaborating with others. 18 March 2022
As part of “Celebration Assembly” on a Friday school celebrate children’s achievements. Children are rewarded for their hard work and quality of their work through receiving the Reader, Writer and Mathematician of the week t-shirts that they wear proudly during...