EYFS Richmond Methodist Primary School

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

09/09/2025

⭐ 🌟Welcome Evening for Reception New Starters 2026! 🌟 ⭐

🌈 Wednesday 1st October 4.30-6pm 🌈

We will be holding an open classrooms session and would love to welcome any prospective Reception children due to start school in September 2026. 💕

All our friendly staff will be on hand to answer any questions you as parents might have and of course your little ones will be able to sample not only our engaging provision but also bite sizes of our lovely school lunches! 🥪 🍕

We offer a comprehensive transition package for your child from their current setting into EYFS@RMS and we consider these open evenings the first steps in this journey!
If you cannot attend on this date then please give our school office a ring on 01748 822794 and they will be happy to book you in for an individual tour. In addition, our Ribblesdale age 3-4 provision and bespoke 2-3yr old provision, Silverdale will also be open that evening!
Looking forward to meeting you! 😊

05/09/2025

🌈 Welcome back to all our fantastic children and families 🌈
We have had a fantastic first week back. We were so excited to welcome all the children into RMS. We had a lovely settling in week, getting to know each and every child, what they like to do and what they are interested in 😊
We are focusing on building positive relationships throughout, supporting social and emotional development and secure routines so we are Ready, Mutually respectful and Safe
Richmond Methodist Primary and Nursery School

31/08/2025

🎉 The wait is over – RMS is back on Tuesday 2nd September and we’re so excited to welcome our wonderful school family for a brand-new year of “doing all the good we can”! 💚📖
⏰ Start times:
⭐ Reception, Year 1 & Year 2 – 8:50am
⭐ Nursery, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 & Year 6 – 9:00am
(We can’t wait to see those happy, smiling faces at the gates!)

💡 Need flexibility? Our Wrap Around Care is open for children aged 2–11, running from 7:30am–6:00pm every day.
📞 Book your place now via the school office.

Here’s to a fantastic school year ahead – we’re ready for it! 🚀🌟💚

12/07/2025

12/07/2025

12/07/2025

10/07/2025

Online registration closes at 4pm, Friday 11th July.
Limited on the day wristbands available, so register now to avoid disappointment!

Richmond Methodist Primary and Nursery School
EYFS Richmond Methodist Primary School

10/07/2025

This week in Silverdale we have been learning about construction 🏗️. We have enjoyed reading ‘Mighty Mighty Construction Site’, ‘Diggersaurs’ and listening to the ‘Dig, Dig, Digging’ rhyme.
The children have enjoyed dressing up as busy builders, creating houses and towers using different objects such as foam bricks, sponges and magnetic tiles.
We have spent most of our days outside in the glorious sunshine exploring our environment and enjoying lots of water play! ☀️

In Ribblesdale this week we have continued to read stories from Apple Tree Farm and have enjoyed looking at the story settings, the main characters and helping to sequence the main events within these stories. In maths we have been revisiting some of our previous learning and have focussed on accurately counting out given amounts from a larger group.
We loved having everyone together for our leavers event/ summer stay and play. It was lovely to share some of our wonderful memories from the past year together. 🎶 Our fantastic nursery leavers did us proud with their beautiful singing. 🎶

In Swaledale we have been reading stories about The Lighthouse Keeper. We started with the Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch. We thought about different ways to scare the seagulls away from the picnic and used our cutlery skills to make our own sandwiches. We have also read the Lighthouse Keeper’s picnic and breakfast stories. We have talked about healthy eating and have written letters to Mr Grinling to encourage him to be healthier. In maths we have been looking at maps, we began by remembering the map of Red Riding Hood’s journey to her grandma’s house. Then we talked about our own journeys to school and the features we see on our walk/drive to school. We enjoyed our class trip to Raby Castle 🏰 We enjoyed exploring the castle with our fantastic tour guides, had a picnic in the yurt and spotted lots of deer relaxing in the shaded areas of the deer park 🦌



Richmond Methodist Primary and Nursery School

05/07/2025

This week in Silverdale we have been learning about the countryside 🌳, forests, woodland animals and their habitats.
We have read ‘Countryside’ ‘Hide and Seek Forest’ and ‘Peter Gets Stuck’.
We have enjoyed creating with natural resources, making some lovely flowery perfume and some fantastic leafy names 🌿.
We have enjoyed spending lots of time outside, listening for the different birds and looking in the trees to see if we could see any nests! We particularly enjoyed singing in the rain 🌧️.

This week in Ribblesdale we have been reading the wonderful stories from Apple Tree Farm. We have enjoyed discussing the main characters in the stories and have been thinking about how the characters are feeling and why. We have also been using fantastic vocabulary to sequence the events in the stories and helped write a list of all the characters in these books. As part of our DT -creating with materials focus the children have made pig stys, stables for horses and farm building using a range of construction and used recycled materials to build their own tractors and/or farm buildings.
We have been consolidating our maths knowledge by revisiting the composition of numbers up to six.

In Swaledale this week we have been inventors!
We started the week looking at the amazing inventions of Rowland Emett, these amazing creations encouraged the children to come up with their very own inventions including a machine to get you out out bed, a robot that gets you dressed and a machine that feeds people who do not have any food. We have also read the books ‘Iggy Peck Architect’ and ‘Rosie Revere Engineer’. We started with drawing our inventions before going on to build them with recycled materials, loose parts, Lego, magnetic tiles and wooden blocks.
In maths we have been consolidating our number bonds to ten and combining numbers. We also enjoyed our transition day in Year 1!



Richmond Methodist Primary and Nursery School

05/07/2025

💜The Nickey Hebb Colour Run🫟

🌈Our first ever RMS Colour Run for the children was such a huge hit that our parents wanted to join in too. So this time, we’ve organised another one for THE WHOLE FAMILY. 🏳️‍🌈

Join us for a fun-filled morning and celebrate the life of the legendary Nickey Hebb, a wonderful FORMS member, Chair of Governors and friend to so many. 🫟

All money raised will go to Macmillan Cancer Support, in memory of Nickey.

📆Saturday 12th July
🕙 10am - 12 midday
📍Start line on the RMS school field
💷 £3 per person
🎟️scan the QR code below for your ticket
🥤refreshments available

EYFS Richmond Methodist Primary School
Richmond Methodist Church
Richmond Methodist School PTA - FORMS
Richmond School and Sixth Form College
Macmillan Cancer Support