Wow – What a fantastic fun filled four day week! Year 2 and Year 6 have made excellent preparations for their upcoming SATs tests and I am amazed by the confidence and positive attitudes they have displayed this year. I am sure you will all do yourselves proud. Y6 pupils got a taste of what…

This morning we have visited the deep dark wood to see what nocturnal animals we could find. We are going to be presenting facts about them as Wildlife Reporters! Here are some links for you to explore. Click on the links and they will take you to a website. They…

Today we had some special visitors from Zoo Lab. We met lots of different Nocturnal animals. Have a look at the photos below. Can you remember what nocturnal means? Can you remember which animals we saw? Did you hold them? What did it feel like? What facts can you remember…

This week we are writing about our favourite character. We have to describe them and how they act. Who is your favourite character? Which book are they from? What are they like?

Ordering Decimals – https://hwb.wales.gov.uk/cms/hwbcontent/Shared%20Documents/VTC/phase4_20030829/Mathematics/Keystage2/Numbers/Anintroductiont/Introduction/MainSessionPart1.htm http://cemc2.math.uwaterloo.ca/mathfrog/english/kidz/orderdecimal6.shtml http://www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/gordon/Higher%20And%20Lower%20-%20Reveal%20and%20Order%20v6.swf Rounding Decimals – http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=DartboardRoundingv2 http://www.transum.org/software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/Students/RoundingDP.asp

Madeleine has obviously got all the family involved! Well done Rosie! http://youtu.be/_CVmr4TYt-g http://youtu.be/wNqFWaxOY3M

Wow what a first week back! Both Y6 and Y2 pupils came back raring and ready to go in relation to their up and coming SATs. It is amazing to see how confident and ‘up for it!’ the children are. The work and revision they have done over Easter has…

Today we have been reminding ourselves all about how we can use jottings to add and subtract 2 and 3 digit numbers. We had number cards, we chose our own numbers and added them together, then we swapped them around and subtracted them. Can you remember which number goes first…

It has been an excellent final week of term at Hoyland Common Primary School. The finale to the term has been the Y4 residential to Sherwood Forest. Every child in Y4 spent 3 days this week at the Sherwood Forest Youth Hostel and took part in a wonderful range of…

What an eggciting day we’ve had! We’ve been making our Easter cards, we had to make sure that the patterns on our eggs were eggactly symmetrical and that our chicks feathers were eggtremely carefully cut out. Have a look at the photos below I’m sure you’ll think we are eggsperts…