What a busy term we’ve had, lots of new learning and most importantly lots of fun. You have all worked really hard and tried your very best. Enjoy the holidays and don’t forget to blog, I’d love to know what Santa brought you and what you’ve been up to. Don’t…

This weeks brain booster has been set by Mrs Hewitt! She would like to hear about what’s on the other side of the wall…

It has been another incredibly busy week at Hoyland Common Primary School and a particularly festive one! On Tuesday and Wednesday KS1 pupils did their Christmas play, they were absolutely fantastic and thank you to all the parents who attended and really enjoyed it. Thursday and Friday saw the Foundation…

Today Year 1 & 2 went to see the pantomime at Birdwell. It was Aladdin and we had a great time. There was lots of cheering (for the good fairy) and booing (for the evil uncle). Everyone really enjoyed themselves (including the staff!). What was your favourite part? Why? Can…

  Thankyou to everyone who visited our Ancient Egyptian museum. It was a great turn out. But especially thank you to all the year 3 and 4 children for working so hard this first term on preparing for the event. Hope you enjoyed it. Which exhibits did you like? Learn…

Today is the 11th day of the 12th month of 2013. If you write that as a “dotty date” that is 11.12.13. Today we have been talking about consecutive numbers. Can you remember what consecutive means? These numbers are consecutive: 21, 22, 23 What would come next? Try these: 198,…

Throughout this term Y3/4 have been working on their ancient Egyptian themed topic – ‘A night at the museum’. All of this hard work will be displayed at the schools very own ancient Egyptian museum, this Wednesday afternoon. In preparation for setting up the school museum, the class were set the…

A big thank you to all parents who have attended parents evenings this year – we have had a huge 90% turn out. I have heard lots of positive comments and seen some very happy parents. Thank you again for taking the time to attend. Kind Regards Tom Banham

It was great to have the pleasure of the company of this wonderful group of children on Thursday for ‘Dining with the Stars’. This weeks stars were on for a fantastic range of reasons including hard work in literacy and numeracy, for putting fantastic effort into all of their work,…

Just to say how fantastic it is to see so many parents at tonight’s parents evening and lots of amazing feedback as to how well children are doing. Thank you all so much for attending and I look forward to seeing more of you tomorrow. Mr Banham