This afternoon more budding thespians took part in the Hamlet workshop. We are definitely catching them younger at HCPS. It was great to see and hear Y2, Y3 and Y4 children confidently speaking iambic pentameter.

Today we have started to workshop the opening scene from Hamlet. We have looked at the themes that run through the play and have decided how we want to present it to an audience. In groups we looked at the dialogue, thought about the atmosphere and tried to create a…

So we are two weeks into our experiment looking at how plants need certain conditions to survive and grow. The children are keeping a weekly diary examining the changes which are taking place. Madison and all the other children have recorded their findings in a diary of progress. Did you…

Today we went for a walk around our local area and looked for different buildings and listened for different sounds. Can your remember any of the things you saw? What sounds did you hear? What was your favourite part of the walk?

It was time to check on our marigolds after one week experiencing various conditions. Did we see some remarkable changes from our four healthy plants only one week ago? What were your observations? Are your predictions correct? I wonder what they will look like next week?

Today we shared the presentations we have created in our ICT lessons. We chose two robots and had to prepare two slides about them in Smart Notebook. We learnt how to cut and paste, change the background and resize a chosen font. I was amazed at how confident you all…

This week we have been investigating the difference between artificial and living flowers. First we created our own artificial flower and then we compared it to some Marigolds that we have been growing in the classroom. What are the differences between the two flowers? How do we know one is…

This week we have been looking at when and how we use ordinal numbers. We then decided to create our own questions based on the final position of different characters in a race. We all used question words like who, how and where. We also remembered to include a question…

Today we started our new topic and we travelled around the Hoyland Common area using Google Earth to see if we could find where we live. Then we created mind maps of what we know about our local area. We were really confident in saying which businesses and services are…

I wish you all a very Happy Easter. Relax during your break from school. Don’t forget why we celebrate at this time of year. I hope you all enjoy the contents of your Easter basket and don’t eat too much chocolate!