***********. Update********.   When I left school at 6pm I could hear the eggs cheeping and one was beginning to crack!! ************  hopefully by tomorrow morning we will have a chick and the rest of th eggs should be hatching very soon.  Let’s hope we are lucky enough to be…

Brilliant day, some amazing face painting and funny faces. Lots of fun baking and decorating buns too!  Well done everyone.

Today for Red Nose Day we watched the official schools Red Nose Day song and enjoyed singing and dancing along! I know I can’t get the song out of my head now! We also discussed the importance of Red Nose Day and how we have helped to raise money for…

We experimented with different brush stokes and mixed paint directly on the paper to create these chicken paintings. 

It has as ever, been a busy but fun week at Hoyland Common Primary School. Today at the very end of the week we will be enjoying all the fun of Comic Relief including non-uniform, funny faces, colouring competitions and cake sales all to raise money for what is a…

Today Debs from Eggucation came in to check on our eggs. They have been in the incubator for a week now and Debs wanted to check the chicks were growing inside them. Debs brought a special light so we could ‘candle’ the eggs, the light shone through the shell and we…

It has been another busy week at HCPS and today is possibly the busiest day of them all! This afternoon sees our Y5/6 pupils taking part in a Tag rugby tournament at Birdwell School and this afternoon we have the Performing Arts and Drama Service coming into showcase some of…

We’ve had a brilliant day!  We all dressed up as our favourite book characters!

It has been another fantastic week at Hoyland Common Primary School and some of the highlights have been – a ‘night camp’ for Y2 children who thoroughly enjoyed their search for the ‘Beast of Hoyland’ and other nocturnal creatures and ended with them all being warmed up with a nice…

We had fun tonight. The Beast of Hoykand was nowhere to be seen, so we were brave enough to search for nocturnal animals waking up at twilight. We made our own creatures out of clay and natural materials and then we made homes for our creatures in the woods. We…