I was very impressed how some of Y4H gave a lot of thought to their chosen World Book Day character. Linking them to their own favourite books or other famous pieces of literature. Most of the children were able to share with the class who their character was, which book…

Today we were all evacuated to Cannon Hall. While we were there we had to use our rations to prepare our own lunch, we saw the old coal range, there was no gas or electric cooker to use! We had to help ‘dig for victory’ in the hall gardens. In…

Today Debs came to show us what is happening inside our eggs. She brought a special light that shone through the egg shells and showed us what was inside, this is called ‘candling the eggs’. We could see the blood vessels in the egg that told us that the chick…

Today our school will be celebrating World Book Day. I can’t wait to see the book characters you all come as. We will be doing activities linked to the event all day, with a parade of characters happening in the morning. Do you have a favourite book or series of…

We have been finding out all about life during WW2. We used the internet to research and found out that food was rationed, people had to ‘make do and mend’ and anyone who had any space outdoors spent their time ‘digging for victory’ and growing their own food. We made…

It will soon be Wednesday! Have you chosen your favourite book character to dress up as? Why did you choose them? Which book are they from? I’m thinking of coming as Burglar Bill as he’s really funny. I love Allan Ahlbergs other books too, he also wrote Funny Bones and…

Today Debs from Eggucation came to see us, she brought a chicken called Sindypom.  Sindypom laid an egg! Debs also brought an incubator and some eggs for us to look after.  The eggs will eventually hatch into chicks.  Debs is coming back to see us after the holidays to show…

Today our science work has been all about sound. We found out how sound is made and how it travels to our ear and then to our brain. We also designed a test to prove that the further away from the sound source we are the quieter the sound we…

It has been another exciting week at Hoyland Common Primary School, children have continued working hard and enjoying their topics. On Tuesday the school had a day exploring e-safety and what it means to be safe using IT and it was interesting to see that in assembly our online guest…

The explanations for how people solved the previous puzzles were great! Here’s two more that I’m sure will have you thinking! 1).                  2).