EYFS Richmond Methodist Primary School

04/12/2025

🌙🚀 This week in Silverdale we’ve been exploring space-themed stories and even took our balance bikes “to the moon” as we followed our outdoor track!

Christmas excitement has officially begun too and the children have loved making our classroom look festive! We’ve also been practising some beautiful songs. 🎄✨

To finish the week, we welcomed our families for a cosy, Christmassy Stay and Play. Thank you to everyone who joined us — it was such a special way to start the season 🎅❤️

This week in Ribblesdale we have been looking at the story of the first Christmas. This has helped to strengthen our knowledge of the Nativity.
We have been busy practising our Christmas songs for the Christmas stay and play next week.
The children have also enjoyed going aboard The Polar Express this week! We made tickets for the passengers, explored making sounds with bells, ate lunch onboard the train and role played in our very own train 🚂 🎄 🎫
We have started to create some gorgeous festive crafts to bring home at the end of term.
In Maths we have been revisiting some of our previous learning on counting.

In Swaledale and Malhamdale we started the week reading the Jolly Christmas postman. The children have been writing their own letters to Father Christmas and posting them in our mini Santa’s workshops in the home corner. We followed this with the story of the first Christmas. This consolidated the children’s understanding of why we celebrate Christmas and they related the characters to the ones they are playing in our Nativity.
In Art we have been looking at local artist Mackenzie Thorpe. We looked at his amazing artwork then had a go at drawing our own version of his famous ‘Family’ art.
In maths we have been consolidating our knowledge of combining numbers to make 4 and 5. We have been very busy all weekend preparing for our upcoming Nativity performance.

Richmond Methodist Primary and Nursery School

29/11/2025

RECEPTION 2026

🎉Come and see why families love Richmond Methodist Primary & Nursery School! 🎉

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 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.

Admissions for Reception places in September 2026 are now open.

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✨ Explore our separate 2-year-old, 3-year-old and Reception provision & fantastic facilities
✨ Learn about our extended Wrap Around Care & Holiday Club

💛 At RMS, we “do all the good we can” to support our families and help every child thrive and flourish. We can’t wait to welcome you into our RMS family! 🏫💫

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EYFS Richmond Methodist Primary School
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27/11/2025

In Silverdale we have been learning all about different modes of transport.

We enjoyed reading ‘The Whales on the Bus’ and ‘Dig, Dig, Digging’.

The children have been busy using the balance bikes to drive along the makeshift road making sure to listen for ‘stop’ and ‘go’.

Ribblesdale have loved the “Space” theme this week. We have talked about the stars, moon, planets, rockets, astronauts and earth itself. We have enjoyed some lovely books Roaring Rockets, Zoom Rocket Zoom, Whatever Next, Dinosaur Rocket and Aliens love Underpants!
The children have really liked role playing in our very own space station 🚀
In Maths we have looked at ABC repeating patterns and how to show what comes next.
The children have also enjoyed exploring technology. We have used the beebots, the my first interactive tablets and explored how to make the toy aliens move by twisting, turning or pressing different buttons.

In Swaledale and Malhamdale we have continued our Literacy text Astrogirl. We have been sequencing the story, drawing our own rockets and using our phonetic knowledge to label them.
In maths we have started using 5 frames and combining numbers to make 4 & 5.
We have been learning all our Christmas songs for our upcoming nativity and can’t wait to share them with our grownups soon.

Richmond Methodist Primary and Nursery School

20/11/2025

This week in Silverdale, we’ve been having lots of fun exploring colours! We experimented with mixing different shades and were amazed to discover that painting one hand yellow and the other blue, then rubbing them together, created green!

We enjoyed sharing the stories ‘Wow, Said the Owl’ and ‘The Crayons’ Book of Colours’.

We’ve also been busy going on colour hunts, practising our colour-matching skills, and noticing all the different colours in our environment.

In Ribblesdale we have been reading alternative traditional stories including The 3 Little Wolves & the Big Bad Pig 🐷 and Beware of the Bears 🐻 The children have been comparing the new stories to the traditional ones, talking about the similarities and differences between the stories.
For our art block the children have loved mixing paint to create new colours to paint some of these characters. They were able to use chalk, coloured pencils and/or felt tip pens to carefully draw their favourite character.
We finished the week following the children’s interest in dragons 🐉
In Maths we have been looking at repeating patterns. We know that repeating patterns keep going in a special order. We can now identify and continue repeating patterns. We put our knowledge to the test by making some delicious fruit kebab repeating patterns. 🍓 🍏 🍓 🍏

In Swaledale and Malhamdale we have started a new Literacy Tree text ‘Astrogirl’. We have been talking about everything we can see in the illustrations with a focus on talking in full sentences. We have been looking at adjectives and how to use them to improve our sentences. In maths we have been looking at positional language to describe where objects are. Our nativity preparations are in full swing and we are enjoying singing all our new Christmas songs. 🎄

Richmond Methodist Primary and Nursery School

14/11/2025

This week in Silverdale we have been looking at houses and homes 🏡. The children loved sharing pictures of their own homes and seeing where their friends live too. We also talked about animals and their homes and when in our forest school area we built a cosy hedgehog house 🦔. After reading one of our favourite stories ‘Owl Babies’ we talked about where owls live too 🦉.

We enjoyed reading ‘What’s in My House?’ and ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ which helped us think about the different types of homes.

On Tuesday, the children made some delicious poppy biscuits to mark Remembrance Day and watched the BBC’s ‘Poppies’ video.

To finish off the week, a fascination with dinosaurs took over! We created our very own dinosaur land, which the children had a fantastic time exploring 🦕🦖.

We have been continuing our love of traditional tales in Ribblesdale. We have focussed on - The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and The Gingerbread Man. The children have loved acting out the stories. This has also helped us to develop our story sequencing.
We have learned about Remembrance Day and the importance of those who have served their country. We created some beautiful Poppies and had lots of fun dressing up as soldiers.
In Maths we have embedded our knowledge of number 2 and have focused on matching amounts to numerals.

In Malhamdale and Swaledale we have continued our Literacy Tree text ‘Look Up’. We have been talking and writing about our favourite part of the story. In History we have been learning about the importance of Remembrance Day, why we observe the day and thinking about people who have been injured or lost protecting our country. We have started singing our Christmas songs in preparation for our Nativity at the end of term. In maths we have started looking at the properties of shape. We enjoyed coming to school in free dress for Children In Need today and had great fun with our Pudsey PE session.
Richmond Methodist Primary and Nursery School

06/11/2025

We’ve had a fantastic first week back.

This week in Silverdale, we began exploring our new topic Houses and Homes. We enjoyed reading ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and ‘There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe.’

On Wednesday, we had so much fun learning all about Bonfire Night! 🔥 We took part in lots of exciting firework-themed activities and even made our own chocolate sparklers. We also learned how to keep safe around fireworks and bonfires — remembering to always stand back, listen to adults, and enjoy the displays safely. 🎆

Traditional tales have been our focus in Ribblesdale this week. We have loved reading Runpunzel, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Goldilocks and the Three Bears and The Elves and the Shoemaker. We have been discussing the main characters within these stories and looking at where the stories are set.
We enjoyed learning about Bonfire night and how to keep safe. We spoke about the different colours we could see and had fun trying to make the different sounds fireworks make. The children enjoyed making their very own firework pictures and they really loved making and eating the edible sparklers!
In Maths we are continuing our learning around numbers and this week the focus was on number 2. We are getting really good at quickly recognising when we can see 2 of something without having to count!

In Swaledale and Malhamdale we have started our Literacy Tree text ‘Look Up’ and have enjoyed a variety of space themed activities. 🚀 The main character wants to be an astronaut 👩‍🚀 We have been drawing and writing about what we want to be when we grow up including police officers, lifeguards, farmers, teachers and rock stars! 🎸
In maths we have been consolidating our counting skills to 20 and looking at the composition of numbers.



Richmond Methodist Primary and Nursery 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