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Hi Class 8, I love hearing all about your readathon adventures in class, but I would also love you to share with everybody on this blog. What are you reading? What do you enjoy most about your book? Have got any sponsors yet? Can you recommend any books that I…

Today in Topic, we are looking at the attributes of leaders, In particular Churchill and Hitler. We have discussed how their characteristics led them to power. We have explored this through discussion and art. During the last part of the afternoon, class 8 are beginning to building their art skills…

Hi year 2 I hope you received my message. Have you come up with some really effective descriptions of the pyramids for me?  I need to start advertising my pyramids tours soon and I need some descriptions that sound exciting and make people want to visit.  Could you blog my…

This week, Class 10 built on their coding skills in preparation for their Titanic Challenge. How did you find it Class 10? Can you explain what you had to do?  

Today we discussed the word ‘hate’ and how we often say this when we mean ‘I don’t like.’ Do we really hate? Why should we be more tolerant of each other? What are your opinions on hate and intolerance?

Battle of the Bands has begun. For one week, class 10 and class 9 will be able to compete against each other to achieve the highest total of correct answers. Good luck!

There were many excellent examples of logical thinking and problem solving by pupils in today’s programming lesson. What have you enjoyed today? Can you recall your newly aquired coding skills? I was especially impressed to see pupils incorporating their own custom functions and loops to improve the efficiency of their…

It’s Readathon time again!  This is our chance to raise money to provide books for children in hospitals all around the country.  It’s also a chance for you to get stuck into your favourite books and to discover new ones! Which books will you read?  Who is your favourite author? …

  Good afternoon to all, I would like to thank everyone at Hoyland Common for such a fantastic week of learning – I really have enjoyed getting into lessons and seeing such a range of fun and exciting activities this week. I will begin in Y1, where are pupils and staff…