One girl, one giant, one wonderful adventure.

img_0126This term class 8 have been working incredibly hard, gathering the skills to write the most astonishing diary entry. We have focusesed on nouns, adjectives, imagery, adverbial phrases and conjunctions and we are nearly ready to show the world how amazing our writing is.  We will be writing from the…

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Hot Air Balloons

.  We have been designing and making our own hot air balloons. We used plastic bags for the envelop and we made baskets to carry passengers. Can you remember what made the balloons float?  What could we do to improve our designs?

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A Fabulous Week of Learning

Wow! We finally come to the end of another fantastic week of learning at Hoyland Common Primary. The week began with a bang as our Y3/4 pupils visited Cadburys World in Birmingham. I was thrilled to hear that, once again, our pupils were given a special mention by the staff…

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Scatter Rounders

This afternoon in PE we played Scatter Rounder’s and had a lot of fun! In this game every player has a role. ‘Batting teams’ have to kick, catch and throw different balls! Then run around as a team! The ‘fielding team’ have to gather each ball as well as LOTS…

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Gotta ‘Fair Trade Em All!’

Yesterday in our chocolate topic lesson we started to learn about Fair Trade! During the lesson, each group had some of the ingredients to make chocolate on their tables, and they had to ‘trade’ their ingredients in order to get a full set. Did you trade fairly? How did you manage to get…

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