This week has seen some fantastic learning at Hoyland Common Primary School. The whole school focus has been “Anti-Bullying” in line with National Anti-bullying week and the promotion of being an inclusive school. Children have completed literacy, artwork and ICT in various forms all relating to encouraging a positive and…

It was an exciting at school today, because all the teachers changed classes. We did some amazing art projects on the Anti-Bullying theme. This morning Mr Fallon taught us and this afternoon Miss Parkin joined our class.  

This week the whole school are learning about bullying, what it means and what we can do to prevent it. What can we do to help?

It has again been an incredibly busy week at Hoyland Common Primary School. On Monday the Y3/4 Pupils football team played against a Y3/4 team from Darfield Upperwood and in a game which was played in a wonderful spirit,HCPS came out victors. We are looking forward to the return fixture…

It has been an exciting first week back at Hoyland Common Primary School, we have had visits in Y2 from the Fire Service which is particularly important at this time of year. Y5/6 pupils have been making World War I trench models and it was good to see them all…

This week we have mixed the primary colours to make other bright firework colours. We used different techniques to create firework patterns. The we used shapes to make a skyline silhouette. When we put everything together the results were amazing. Just like a real display without the loud bangs!

The Tempest by William Shakespeare. This week we have been creating an image of the island in the hall. We worked in groups to decide what the most important features are and then we placed these around the hall. We then began to improvise the first meeting that Prospero and…

Good luck to the HCPS athletics club members who will be representing our school at the first of the South Yorkshire Indoor Series fixtures on Sunday. Held at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield; the location of our KS2 sports day. Our girls team is made up of Chloe…

We all had fun ordering mixed up instructions to make some special cakes for Halloween. The buns were gooey green, dripping in blood red icing and covered in bones, eyeballs, guts and fairy poo. Delicious!

We all completed our powered vehicles. Some used elastic bands to make them move, others used balloons. Then we all went to the hall to find out which car went the furthest. Declan and Charlie were the champions with an elastic powered monster truck, although Mrs Harrison managed to build…