Today we have been adding amounts of money to find totals. We were adding amounts over £2. We had to convert the amount from pounds into pence, then partition the numbers into 100s, 10s and units. Next we added the hundreds together, then the tens and finally the units….

Yesterday we received an email from Douglas Rogers a set designer for Disney Pixar. He asked for our help, he needed ideas for sets he had to design for some new Disney films. We worked together to design and then paint our sets. Have a look and see what you…

Over the next few weeks we will be producing out own I-motion Super Hero movies. We have created our characters, planned the storyline and  looked at how the I-motion app works. Our next job is to design the sets, or backdrops against which the action will take place. We have…

Carla is the first year 2 to complete all her spelling snails this year. She has worked her way through all 43 of them! Well done Carla. I hope you shared your chocolate bar with your Mum who helped you to learn them all.

Well it has been week of all extremes at Hoyland Common Primary School this week, not even the snow deterred the learning and fun. The year one pupils had a great day in an inflatable star dome that was set up in the hall on Thursday and learnt so much…

Today, we went hunting in the snow for animal tracks, just like the Gruffalo’s Child. Then, we built snowmen, just like Anna and Elsa in Frozen.      

We have been designing and making outfits for our Super Heroes. We used what we have learned about the properties of materials to choose what we would use. If our Super Hero was stretchy we chose stretchy material, if they saved people from drowning we chose waterproof materials. What materials…

It has been another exciting week at Hoyland Common Primary School. The highlight of the week was undoubtedly the Arts Award Showcase, where all the pupils in Y5/6 shared some of the brilliant work they have been doing in the ‘Arts’ to meet the requirements to get their arts award….

What an amazing success! Thank you to all the parents who came into class this morning to read with their child. The children really enjoyed it and lots of brilliant reading and questioning took place. Don’t forget reading sessions will take place every week – Wednesday’s 8.45 – 9.00am and…

Today we have been creating our own Super Hero character. First of all we drew our character, then we added labels to tell everyone what special powers and skills our super hero had. What special skills and powers does your super hero have? How do they use them to help…