EYFS Richmond Methodist Primary School

24/10/2025

We have had a busy last week of term. 🎃
This week in Silverdale we’ve had a wonderfully spooky time exploring our Halloween stories! We enjoyed reading ‘We’re Going on a Ghost Hunt’, ‘Room on the Broom’, and ‘Aaarghh Spider!’

The children have had so much fun making all sorts of magical potions and brewing up a concoction of different soups, mixing in all sorts of spooky ingredients like worms, spiders, and pinecones. We have also created some fantastic Halloween crafts.

We’ve also been learning about Diwali, the Festival of Light. The children loved exploring the beautiful traditions of this celebration and created some beautiful, colourful paintings

This week in Ribblesdale we have enjoyed reading a range of spooky themed stories. The children have loved joining in with the repeated phrases when we shared ‘I’m going on a pumpkin hunt’ or ‘I’m going on a ghost hunt’.👻
The children have created some wonderful art again this week including mixing colours to create different shades to paint some pumpkins then adding facial features or decorating pumpkins using chalks and paint. 🎃
In our forest school session the children loved hunting for pumpkins.
In Maths we have been very excited to move on to learning our first number! We have loved learning all things 1 related, including how to spot when we have 1 of something and how to form the numeral 1.

In Swaledale and Malhamdale we have continued our Literacy text ‘Cave Baby’. We have been drawing our own cave paintings and have started writing CVC words. We have also been reading a range of Autumn and pumpkin inspired stories. In maths we have started looking at part-part whole first using our bodies and then looking at parts of objects that make up a whole.
We enjoyed out first stay & play session this week where we enjoyed exploring Halloween themed activities inside the classroom and in our outdoor area with our grown ups.




Richmond Methodist Primary and Nursery School

17/10/2025

This week in Silverdale, we’ve been enjoying stories all about dragons, exploring the wonders of autumn, and expressing our creativity through music. One of the highlights of our week was sitting together with large sheets of paper and making marks in response to beautiful classical music. When the music was fast, our marks were quick and bold; when it slowed down, our movements became gentle and delicate. It was a wonderful way to connect sound, movement, and creativity!

Wow! What an exciting week in Ribblesdale! The children were super excited in the run up to the wedding of the year! We had lots of fun making the scarecrow flower girl, making cards for the bride and groom and making tissue paper flowers or buttons holes to wear for the wedding. We throughly enjoyed the wedding ceremony and all the dancing afterwards.
This week we have enjoyed different stories that include witches. We particularly loved Room on the Broom, this inspired our first forest school activity of the year where we made our very own beautiful autumn leaf confetti wands 🍂 🪄
The children have produced some beautiful work on the art table this week too.
In Maths this week we have continued to develop our sorting knowledge and have enjoyed creating our own rules for sorting!
We are using these skills when helping at tidy up time. 🥰

💒 The best wedding ever, the best wedding yet, the wedding that no one will ever forget! 🎉
We have had a very busy week in Swaledale and Malhamdale this week. At the beginning of the week we had some very special visitors who came in to tell us about living in a farm and brought their big red shiny tractor. The children asked some fantastic questions about the tractor and life on the farm before getting to sit on the tractor 🚜
The rest of the week has been all about Julia Donaldson’s book The Scarecrow
Wedding. We enjoyed making Betty and Harry, our bride and groom and getting ready for our big celebration. We were honoured to welcome our wonderful school governor Rev Kathleen to preside over the ceremony which was followed by some dancing and snacks. In maths we have consolidated our work on repeated patterns using items that the children have found on their autumnal walks.

11/10/2025

We would like to extend a warm welcome to anyone considering joining our RMS family for next year! 💜💚

To see our friendly and exciting provision in action then contact our school office on: 01748 822794 and we will be very pleased to welcome you and your child!

From tomorrow, 12 October 2025 - the admission application round opens!

From 12 October 2025, you can apply for a school place for children born between:

1 September 2021 and 31 August 2022 (Reception 2026)

The closing date for applications is the 15 January.

Then at sometime shortly after the Offer Day in April, we will be in touch to arrange our nurturing transition activities! 💜💚

Further information is available here:
https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/education-and-learning/school-admissions/starting-primary-school-and-junior-school

Richmond Methodist Primary and Nursery School

Apply for your child to start school in Reception or transfer from infant to junior school.

10/10/2025

🎃👻 Get ready to BOO-gie! 👻🎃

Our Spooky School Disco is creeping closer!
🪩 Disco and games
🧙‍♀️ Prizes for the best costumes
🌭 Hot dogs
🍬 Sweet treats
💀 Glow-in-the-dark & spooky merch for sale!
Come dressed to thrill and dance the fright away! 👻
Don’t miss the spooktacular fun 👻 🎃

EYFS Richmond Methodist Primary School

09/10/2025

This week in Silverdale, we’ve had lots of fun learning all about different animals!

We enjoyed reading ‘Dear Zoo’ 🦁🦒 and ‘In the Jungle’ 🐅🐍, and got creative making some beautiful lion pictures using pom poms and paint, as well as colourful, slithery snakes. We also had a great time mark-making in colourful sand.
The highlight of our week was making our very own bird feeders. We mixed bird seed with lard and carefully moulded the mixture into pots. Once they had set, we loved placing them around our outdoor area for the birds to enjoy 🐦‍⬛

This week the children in Ribblesdale have been exploring autumn. We have discussed the changes in weather and have spent time observing changes in our own environment. The children have loved collecting autumn treasures! We have read stories that have allowed us to explore autumn further and have really enjoyed learning all about hibernation.
As part of our Music focus we have learnt some new autumn songs, tapped out simple repeating rhythms and played musical instruments with increasing control. We explored how sounds can be changed eg louder, quieter.
In Maths this week we have all been super sorters! We have looked at sorting objects by colour, size and shape.

In Swaledale & Malhamdale we have continued our Literacy Tree text ‘Naughty Bus’. This week the children were surprised to find out the adventures the Naughty Bus had had around the school over the weekend including knocking over Mrs Stevenson’s candles, playing in her office, getting tangled up in the sensory room and splashing in puddles outside! We are amazing storytellers so we came up with our own ideas of what adventures the bus could get up to at school and drew our own story maps ✍️. In maths we have been looking at repeating patterns. The children have enjoyed making repeated patterns with natural objects, cubes, colours and paint. 🎨



Richmond Methodist Primary and Nursery School

04/10/2025

This week in Silverdale, we have been continuing our learning all about food and farming.
The children have loved listening to farm stories and singing favourite nursery rhymes, such as Old MacDonald. We’ve even been learning Makaton signs for different farm animals!
Our senses have been busy too, as we explored making magical potions using fruit slices and colourful water.

This week in Ribblesdale we have enjoyed reading the lovely Apple Tree Farm stories. We have been looking at the main characters, the story setting and the main events that happen. The children have helped find and name the different farm animals within these books. We are working hard to remember the names of the baby animals too. As part of our natural world block we have also looked at and identified body parts on farm animals and learned new vocabulary such as mane, hoof and snout. They have throughly enjoyed using the magnifiers to take a closer look at our pretend farm animals or photos of these animals.
In Maths we have continued to develop our matching skills. We have been busy matching shadows of farm animals to the pictures, finding matching handprints and matching number shapes.

In Swaledale & Malhamdale this week we have started our new Literacy tree text ‘Naughty Bus’.
We started the week learning about buses before discovering our own London bus and reading about its adventure. We have been sequencing the events of the story and had a go at drawing our own story map. In maths we have been measuring height and length using the terms taller, shorter, longer and shorter.


Richmond Methodist Primary and Nursery School

29/09/2025

25/09/2025

This week in Silverdale, we have been exploring the theme of food and farming. We enjoyed reading ‘Noisy Farm’ and ‘Open the Barn Door’, where everyone joined in with making the different animal sounds.
We have introduced the children to our very own 🌲forest school area 🌲. We were excited to discover a variety of bugs, including ladybirds, spiders, and beetles 🐞🕷️🪲. Together, we even built our very own bug hotel! The children also loved walking through the long grass and noticing the many different trees and flowers around them. 🌳🌼
We’ve had lots of fun getting creative and messy—painting with vegetables and experimenting with mixtures of cornflour, water, and paint. 🎨🫟
On Thursday, we focused on our feelings by exploring the Colour Monsters. The children shared how they were feeling and enjoyed singing along to the feelings song 😊

In Ribblesdale this week we have been exploring food and farming! We have looked closely at the animals in our farm stories and have been learning about life cycles of some of these animals. The children have loved playing in our new outdoor farm shop. They have really enjoyed hands on exploration of vegetables that farmers may grow. In maths we have started to look at matching. We have been busy matching buttons, socks and shoes.
As part of our mental health day the children participated in lots of fun activities including teddy bear breathing, exploring the sensory bottles and doing some yoga. We have learnt a new song called ‘We Belong’. I wonder if your child can sing it to you?
We have also created some wonderful drawings of our families and we made a handprint display helping to show we all belong and are part of the RMS family.

In Swaledale and Malhamdale we have continued our Literacy Tree text ‘Where the Wild Things Are’. We have been sequencing the story, using storytelling language and writing out own detailed story maps. We are amazing story writers already! 📝 We have enjoyed activities to strengthen our fine motor muscles including painting with cotton wool buds and water play with pipettes.
In maths we have been matching and sorting items whilst taking notice of their similarities and differences. On Thursday we enjoyed the whole school Mental Health day. We took part in mindfulness activities including yoga, art projects and ‘filling each others buckets’ with our kindness 💕



Richmond Methodist Primary and Nursery School

23/09/2025

18/09/2025

This week in Silverdale, our focus has been on learning about people who help us. We have enjoyed sharing stories such as ‘Busy Vet’, ‘Dormouse Has a Cold’, and ‘Real Superheroes’.
The children particularly loved a sensory activity where they created “fire” by dipping their hands in red and yellow paint to cover the tuff tray. Afterwards, they became firefighters and used water to put the fire out!
Role play has also been a big hit, with the children enthusiastically taking on the roles of vets, doctors, builders, and firefighters.

The children in Ribblesdale have loved this week’s topic of pirates. We have enjoyed a fantastic range of pirate books. 🏴‍☠️ Our favourites have been - Pirates love underpants and The Night Pirates.
We have been busy making our own pirate maps and have developed a love for mark making within this. We enjoyed working together to build a super pirate ship using our den making kit. We have shared many adventures together onboard the ship! We have continued sharing our ‘All about Me’ books.In Maths we have looked at the colours green and purple and had lots of fun exploring these colours. We have combined all of our new colour knowledge to make some beautiful rainbows.

In Swaledale and Malhamdale we have been reading our Literacy tree text ‘Where the Wild Things Are’. 🐾 We discovered footprints in our classrooms along with a sack containing the book and items beginning with sssssssss. We have enjoyed designing our own wild things with huge eyes, sharp teeth and claws. In phonics we have been using our new sounds knowledge to blend our sounds and read words! In maths were have been focused on counting slowly and carefully in order to count accurately.

11/09/2025

This week in Silverdale we have been busy building new friendships and sharing stories about our families. One of our favourite moments was reading the beautiful story ‘Owl Babies’ which everyone really enjoyed.
The children created wonderful heart pictures to give to someone special, and they had great fun using different materials to design and build their own houses. A highlight of the week was when the children proudly shared their family photos with one another, sparking lots of lovely conversations.

This week in Ribblesdale we have read some lovely stories including The Family Book, Love makes a Family and My Big Fantastic Family.
We have started sharing the children’s family photos and talking about who they live with and where they live. The children are throughly enjoying looking at their All About Me books with both the adults and their new friends in class.
The children have loved looking in the mirrors and discussing our facial features before having the chance to paint a picture of their face. What gorgeous self portraits we have hanging up in Ribblesdale now!
In Maths we have started to learn about the colours red, blue and yellow. We even learnt about different shades of colours too. We loved hunting for different shades of these colours and using our new vocabulary.

In Swaledale and Malhamdale we have been continuing our Literacy text ‘Flower Block’. We have been talking about belonging to different communities and how that makes us feel. We have designed our own community gardens thinking about the plants we would like to see and the fruits we would like to share. We have also been reading stories by Rachel Bright including The Lion inside, The Koala that could, The Squirrels that Squabbled and the Whale who wanted more. These books have strong PSHE themes about courage, sharing, teamwork, resilience and the importance of being yourself.

Richmond Methodist Primary and Nursery School