Great use of ‘Reading Rewards’ by Class10.

Thrilled to see how so many of our class are taking the opportunity to interact with their reading by using reading-rewards.com Check out these great blogs and reviews. I’m especially impressed with the recommendations and book sharing that pupils in class are taking it upon themselves to do. You are…

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Historic Hoyland

Armed with old photos of Hoyland in the past, Year 3 and Year 4 have walked into Hoyland to discover what has changed. We found some buildings from 1800s and early 1900s which are still there today. Most of the shops have changed uses. We also met some lovely locals…

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Rainforest shades of green!

Today we have been learning about primary and secondary colours. We used two of the primary colours to mix different shades of green. Can you remember the 3 primary colours?  Which 2 did we use today?  Have a look at the rainforest pictures we created.  We created lots of different…

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Changing materials.

  Today we received a parcel from Hans, it had a letter inside and a bag of water!  We worked out that Hans had sent us a chunk of an iceberg all the way from Antartica but it had melted on its long journey to us. We put the iceberg…

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Maths Mastery!

This week in maths, Class10 have been working on becoming masters of the fraction. Fitting in – fractions of shape, understanding of numerator and denominator, finding fractions, calculating fractions of an amount, simplifying fractions, finding common denominators, ordering fractions, addition and subtraction of fractions, multiplication and division of fractions AND…

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Do you remember old Hoyland?

Last week everybody did some fantastic research to find out where the old Co-op used to be. We used the Internet, visited the library, read books, went on road trips and asked people who remembered how it used to be.  Next week we would like to invite some granddads and…

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Keeping warm!

Hans has asked for our help again  can you think of ways we can help him?  What are materials?  What does insulate mean?  How could we test materials to see which would keep Hans the warmest?  

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Comparing temperatures

This weeks brain booster task was all about temperatures.  We asked you to use the met office,  bbc weather websites or the weather forecasts on TV or in the newspapers to find out temperatures in different places around the world.    Next week iwe will be looking at how we…

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Where is the old Co-op?

Here is the original design for the first Co-op shop in Hoyland. We understand that the building is still there, but can you find out if it is? Where is it? Is it still a shop? What is it now? You can ask someone who might remember. You could go…

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