It has been another busy week at Hoyland Common Primary School and things are starting to feel quite festive. The rehearsals for the Foundation stage and KS1 Christmas performances are well underway, all children in KS1 attended the Pantomime at Birdwell and what a great time they had and today is the Christmas Fair.

Today we were also visited by the Barnsley MP Michael Dugher who present prizes to those pupils who were runners up in his borough wide Christmas card competition and for the third year out of four Hoyland Common Primary School won the competition overall. Well done Thomas for your brilliant design.

The stars of the week of the week this week were selected for a wide variety of reasons. Including a fantastic character description and story board in literacy, for a brilliant attitude towards school and learning, for a great contribution all week in literacy, for excellent effort in everything you do. Well done to you all, hope you enjoyed dining with the stars.

This week has been the start of Attendance Advent and lots of children have been here for the full week! Well done to you all. Attendance as a school for this week is 96.6% lets keep this up all the way to the end of term.

Don’t forget that Tuesday and Wednesday next week is parents evening and by now you should have received the confirmation of your appointment. We look forward to seeing you next week. As ever if there is anything you wish to discuss about your child’s education please do not hesitate to contact one of the HCPS team.