I am incredibly lucky today to be spending the day at the BarnsleyTeachFest at Springwell School. Some amazing and inspirational speakers and presenters, all passionate about education, teaching and learning.

Welcome back. Hope you have enjoyed your half term. It is the start of our final half term, there are loads of fun things planned. This is all getting kicked of by our arts week. So put your creative caps on, don’t forget to bring in your fly machine plans…

We have been putting our learning to good use by designing and making a cloak for Little Red Riding Hood. We decided what a cloak would need to be, we came up with soft, waterproof, warm, flexible and able to protect her from the prickles on the trees and bushes…

It has been a busy final week of the half term at Hoyland Common Primary School, and what a busy half term it has been, Key stage 1 and Key stage 2 SATs and Assessment weeks for all other year groups, I think everyone is ready for a holiday! It…

With you all coming along so well in the singing and music lessons with Miss Stacey, I thought I’d capture some for you to watch back. Great job Jack in your role as leader of the call and response.   http://youtu.be/_P1kgInL45s

This week we have been exploring and sorting materials. First of all we sorted materials into natural and manmade. Can you remember some materials that were manmade? Then we talked about the different properties of materials. We looked for materials that were flexible and rigid, see through and not, waterproof…

It was an incredibly busy week last week at Hoyland Common Primary School with the main focus being on the Y6 pupils who took their Y6 SATs in Reading, Grammar and Punctuation, Spelling and Maths. The Y6 pupils where an absolute credit to the school. They all put 100% effort…

Wow! Was such a great morning with the class. Kicked off by the classes singing lesson with Miss Stacey. It is always a pleasure to have Miss Stacey in school working with the children on their singing. Every child loves the lessons and looks to enjoy themselves immensely. But not…

We have been learning about night time and looked at this painting by Van Gogh. He called his painting Starry Night. Van Gogh used thousands of tiny brush strokes to create his painting, we tried to copy his style. Mrs Harrison thinks our work is amazing. What do you think?…

Inspired by how well Mrs Paddock’s class did at the #PhotoChallenge30(http://janehewittphotochallenge.blogspot.co.uk/p/photochallenge30-for-pupils.html),  Y4H are going to be attempting it as part of a reward activity when their group has worked well during Guided Reading time. So Y4H, post your photos. Remember Tell us about your image, how you made it and why!…