Today we have been searching for and navigating around the Cbeebies website. We found a Postman Pat special delivery site and controlled how he dropped off his letters and parcels. We had to learn how to control the arrow keys and decide which speed suited the task. Can you remember…

Last Thursday we used the search tool to order our own class copy of ‘Robots’. We can now navigate a website and include our details to order something. Today we received a parcel and our DVD had arrived. We were very excited. I wonder if our families will let us…

This week we have been collecting winter nouns then deciding on adjectives to describe them so we could include these in our winter poem. Today we have been using verbs to describe what the nouns are doing. Finally we have decided to rehearse the poem to perform in assembly next…

In ICT we have been learning how to search for something on a website and also how to search using a search engine. We searched the school blog and found our class page and then navigated around it looking at different articles. We then used Google to search for the…

Today we started our new topic ‘We’re in control’ and decided to take control of our learning by choosing different questions we would like to answer. We split into four groups and produced a mind map then we shared these with the rest of the class. We have some fantastic…

Here’s to a fantastic 2014 at Hoyland Common Primary School!

It’s been a great term in Y1 and I hope you all enjoy a relaxing break during the holidays. Don’t forget to post on the blog what you are up to during the Christmas holidays! See you all in the New Year.

This morning we designed our own party hats before enjoying the KS1 party this afternoon. I think everyone was stuffed after eating sandwiches, sausage rolls, crisps and a some really yummy buns. Everyone enjoyed playing pass the parcel!

Today we all ventured to the Academy Theatre in Birdwell to see Aladdin. Oh yes we did! It was a great production with plenty of laughs and some scary moments. What was your favourite part of the show? Can you remember the names of the characters in the show? We…

We set off this morning to a special Christingle service at St Peter’s in Tankersley. It didn’t take too long to get there! Revd. Hale asked us what we had learnt about advent and how we made our Christingle. Then we lit our Christingle and sang ‘Away in Manger’ before…