A fantastic morning at Apple Store in Meadowhall with our ICT G&T pupils, exploring Garageband!

This week in school is arts week! I am sure many of you know by now every year in school we have a week that is dedicated to the arts, music and drama. We have many different activities going on this week, do ask your children what they have been…

The new dinner menu that is due to start next week (w/c 19th May 2014) is now available to be viewed in the documents section of the website.    

  Press release 29th April 2014 Hoyland Common Primary School chosen to help train the next generation of teachers Hoyland Common Primary School has been selected by the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) to become a national teaching school – an important role in raising standards. Teaching Schools…

The analysis of the Pupil Voice Questionnaire for 2014 can now be found under School Documents.

Hoyland Common invited some very important visitors into school today. Kevin Brennan, the Shadow Minister for Schools, and Michael Dugher, our local MP, visited school to promote #barnsleyisbrill and to view the strengths of the school. They were given a tour of a number of classrooms and spoke with children about the…

Evening activities at Sherwood!

Yesterday saw the use of the first Poundland Pedagogy item! Foundation stage had a delivery of 2 packs of pegs and creativity has to be awarded to the children for this one!  The children used the pegs to secure a host of fabric pieces into very glamorous outfits.  How would…

Over the past couple of years we have had a number of visits from Mrs Hewitt and her amazing camera. Y2 have been involved in a number of projects with her, including the photo challenge and photos at Wentworth Castle. Her first book was published this week and it includes…