After school on Tuesday, Mrs Davies organised an after school sewing activity for the KS1 pupils. Lots of children came and we had a great time making a hand puppet out of felt and wool. Sewing was a little bit tricky at first but after a little practise and some…

We have just arrived at the end of another fantastic week at Hoyland Common Primary School and once again children have been learning about a wide variety of subjects. Pupils are now getting really stuck in to their topics and I’m convinced that we’re going to have some absolute experts…

Today Year 3/4 R have been recording news reports and publishing them through Audioboo.fm One of their recordings has been featured on the Audioboo website and mentioned through Twitter. This means that their recording has impressed the Audioboo team so much that they felt it worthy to publish for the…

It has been another fantastic week of learning at Hoyland Common Primary School. Some of the highlights have been Y3/4 pupils finding a range of artefacts when completing their archeological dig, it will be great trying to track down where they are from. Y6 pupils have started their forensic science…

We apologise for the fire alarm this morning but due to a fault in the alarm system it was activated. For the safeguarding of yourselves and your children we could not enter the building until it had been cleared by the emergency services, something which was completely out of our…

Welcome back one and all! Well it has been a fantastic first day back at Hoyland Common Primary School, it’s great to see so many children eager to be back at school, (and I imagine a few parents happy to see them back too). I would especially like to welcome…

A quick reminder that we have an INSET day Monday 2nd September and pupils return on Tuesday 3rd September. We hope you have all had an enjoyable summer and are all ready for the fantastic learning opportunities we have got planned for this year.

A fun, free workshop where kids become filmmakers. At the Apple Store in Meadowhall they are running a summer camp, kids ages 8-12 learn how to shoot their own footage, create an original song in GarageBand on an iPad, and put it all together in iMovie on a Mac. This…

  A montage of our time at HCPS.

During our last week year 6’s have reminiscing about their favourite parts of their time at HCPS but there has been a twist….   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxLnh5GZCgk