Instruction writing

We have written instructions for our Sports Day activities. We  thought carefully about the order of our instructions and the words we used. What type of words are important in instructions?

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Lets get active!

Two brilliant days of sport!  The children have loved it!  They have been playing Rounders, Netball, Dodgeball, Golf, Tenis, Cricket, Rugby, Football and Hockey.   There was even the chance to have a go at fencing and the Athletics activities were very popular.  Children also had the chance to make…

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Fencing Pride and Wildlife Fun

It has been another fantastic week of learning at HCPS. The highlight of the week was the Y1 visit to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park where the children saw a huge array of wonderful animals. Y3/4 Pupils completed their bronze fencing award and ten children were then selected to take part…

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Stepping back in time!

We have been learning about how things were done differently in the olden days.  We talked about how we use computers to write down our ideas now and then made our own quills to have a go at writing as it was done in the olden days. 

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London’s Burning

Today we have been learning all about the Great Fire of London. We watched a video all about and have learnt lots of facts about how it started and what happened. We learnt the song ‘London’s Burning’ and sung it in a round!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syLgupSF9YI&feature=youtu.be

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The start of the final term….

It has been a busy first week back after half term at Hoyland Common Primary School. The week has included a total of nearly 50 miles of mountain biking for year six pupils on their bike rides from Dunford Bridge to the Wetlands Centre at Manvers along the Trans Pennine…

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Lego Challenge

Yesterday we had a school challenge to use lego in our lesson.   Miss Crookes set us a challenge… we only had this special equipment plus as many other pieces of lego we liked…   We had to make a Lego car that could move without being touched! It was a big challenge….

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