Latest News/Events
‘The Kiln’ March 2025
2 year provision have had a very special task to complete this week. The very talented Rachael Wood and her colleague Georgia, who work at 'The Kiln' in Stocksbridge, came to visit us with an exciting task in hand. All of our children and some of our parents had the...
World Book Day March 2025
Year 1 and Year 2 have had a fabulous World Book Day! The children came in a variety of amazing costumes and were excited to show each other who they had come as! This year we focused on the book 'Tidy' by Emily Gravett. After reading the story, we were joined by...
World Book Day Class 1 and Class 2 March 2025
The children in Reception had a fantastic day for World Book Day. We had lots of great costumes for our favourite book characters! Our focus story for the day was 'The Color Monster' and lots of children brought in some fantastic homework crafts based on the story....
World Book Day March 2025
This week in Nursery we have been celebrating world book week! The children have been listening to the story 'Elmer' by David McKee. We have talked about the word 'unique', and the children have enjoyed learning that we are all different and that being unique is a...
World Book Day March 2025
Our world book day story was Handa’s Surprise. The children enjoyed doing various activities around this book such as balancing baskets on their heads, making their favourite fruits with various craft materials. Introducing new language by learning about new fruits...
‘How many colours in a rainbow?’
This half-term we are learning our topic 'how many colours are in a rainbow?' Class 2 has been busy getting creative by painting our own rainbows. We have also really enjoyed a science experiment where we added warm water to skittles and watched the colours travel...
‘How many colours in a rainbow?’
This half-term we are learning our topic 'how many colours are in a rainbow?' Class 2 has been busy getting creative by painting our own rainbows. We have also really enjoyed a science experiment where we added warm water to skittles and watched the colours travel...
‘How many colours in a Rainbow?’
In Class One we have just introduced our new topic; 'How Many Colours in a Rainbow?' We have started this topic by immersing our children in colour; so far we have spoken about different colour names, sorted colours, experimented with colour and discussed how rainbows...
‘How many colours in a rainbow?’
This half term we have begun exploring our new topic "How many colours in a rainbow?" The children have enjoyed creating tissue paper rainbows and painting rainbows carefully using thin brush strokes for each individual colour. We have also been exploring signs of...
Nursery Rhymes Feb 2025
This half term, children have begun learning familiar nursery rhymes on the xylophones. Class 9 children have focussed incredibly hard and they have ensured they followed the rhythm of the song and played the correct keys. Playing the xylophone helps to develop...
Modroc Feb 2025
Recently the children in class 8 have been using modroc to create sculptures. The Year 1 children enjoyed making their snakes and the Year 2 children loved making their animal masks. To use the modroc effectively, children had to dip the strips of modroc into water,...
Animation – Feb 2025
During this half term, the children in class 7 have thoroughly enjoyed producing their own Animation. They started by choosing characters such as a shark and a lifeguard, or a monkey and a zoo-keeper, and a suitable background such as the ocean or the zoo to name a...
Safety Week Jan 25 – Fire
Children at Royd are currently taking part in a 'safety week' where a range of people will be visiting school including the police, paramedics, lollipop lady and an online safety worker. This week a member of the fire service visited us. They told us that it was...
Safety Week Jan 25 – Police
Last week children at Royd Nursery Infant School took part in safety week. As part of safety week, a police officer kindly visited Royd and spoke to our children about stranger danger. Following on from the police officers visit, children carried out stranger danger...
Safety Week Jan 2025 – Nurse
As part of a recent safety week a nurse visited Royd. Following on from the nurses visit we discussed with the children the importance of being able to dial 999 in the event of an emergency. Please spend time with your child showing them how to do this on your house...
Safety Week Jan 2025 – Crossing
As we all know Jackie does a fabulous job of keeping our children safe when crossing the road. As part of safety week Jackie came into school to deliver a workshop for our children. There were a number of children that commented that they cross further down and don't...
‘Stay & Play’
Nursery welcomed parents and carers on two afternoon stay and play sessions. The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and showed their adults all the wonderful activities we had to offer in our nursery and in our outdoor provision. Our activities linked to our whole...
‘Stay & Play’
The children had a lovely morning where they were joined by their grown-ups for a stay and play. The session was based around the children's current learning, including buildings, construction and repeating patterns. There were a variety of activities for the...
Stay and play – January 2025
The children had a lovely morning where they were joined by their grown-ups for a stay and play. The session was based around the children's current learning, including buildings, construction and repeating patterns. There were a variety of activities for the children...
‘Stay and Play’
The children in the 2 year provision really enjoyed having their parents and family members to come and play at our stay and play session. We had lots of activities around provision linked to safety week. Fun was had by all. [gallery size="full"...
Class 9 PE lesson
Class 9 have been learning about football in their PE lessons this half term. We have been focusing on dribbling and passing with the inside of their foot. Some children were challenged even further by passing with their non-dominant foot. All the children tried...
Poppy the Rabbit!
This half term, in science, class 8 children are learning about animals, their habitats and how to care for pets. At Royd, we are fortunate enough to have our own school pet - Poppy the rabbit! The children sat in a large circle and Poppy was able to hop around inside...
‘Beat Band Boogie’
This half term's topic is based around the theme 'Beat Band Boogie'. The children in class 7 have started their art work and their focus is around modroc. Modroc starts off dry, you then dip it in water and model with it. The children absolutely loved learning the...
‘How does that building stay up?’
The children in class two have been enjoying learning about buildings and materials in their 'how does that building stay up?' topic. The children have been exploring different materials in their buildings such as wooden blocks and magnetic tiles. We have been...
‘How does that building stay up?’
This half term in the 2-year provision our topic has been ‘How does that building stay up?' The children have enjoyed accessing various activities around our provision such as building their own igloo using sugar cubes, carefully balancing them on top of each other....
‘Why does that building stay up?’
Our topic this half term is called 'Why does that building stay up?'. The children have had great fun and have immersed themselves in the provision enhancements that have been provided for them, including building with connetix and forming shapes with kinetic sand....
‘How does that building stay up?’
This half term we have welcomed new friends into nursery, we have been busy getting to know each other and the nursery routines. We have also been investigating our new topic 'How does that building stay up?' We have explored using a variety of construction materials...
KS1 Music Workshop Jan 2025
Key Stage 1 really enjoyed their music workshop as part of their Beat Band Boogie topic! As part of the workshop, pupils carried out warm up activities that involved following using body percussion. After that, the children were split into two groups where they looked...
96.5% Dec 2024
Well done children on achieving 96.5% attendance and punctuality in the Autumn term. Having high attendance has a vast amount of benefits. 78.7% of children that have 100% attendance go on to achieve 5+ GCSEs including English and Maths. Setting good attendance...
100% attendance Dec 2024
Well done children on achieving 100% attendance and punctuality in the Autumn term. Having high attendance has a vast amount of benefits. 78.7% of children that have 100% attendance go on to achieve 5+ GCSEs including English and Maths. Setting good attendance...