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I hope you are having a good weekend year 2s. I’m just looking at your fantastic writing! You all thought of some brilliant ways for your heroes to beat Dr Slime. On Friday all the teachers were learning about how to help children create imaginative stories. What is your favourite…

A child who regularly reads at home as a youngster has a vocabulary of a about 7000 words by the age of 7. Children who are not encouraged tend to have half that level of vocabulary.

Fantastic to see 60 teachers and support staff from across the locality at Hoyland Common Primary School today. Working together to develop new and creative ways to support pupils with their writing.

A big thank you to all those who supported the Coffee afternoon in aid of Macmillan cancer support, which even included a visit from the Mayor! And a special thank you to GIA Coffee for providing all the hot drinks!

Next week we are being Healthy Heroes and learning about the importance of eating healthily. We would like to invite all the Y2 parents to a Healthy Buffet prepared by the children. Healthy Eating Buffet, Thursday 4th October 3pm onwards. Please come and find out more about the fun we’ve…

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Spelling snails have started again this week! Also, please practise learning the spelling rule for adding -ing to words.

This week we started planning our own story based on The BFG. We have already created a new giant to include in our story.

Today we have been adding speech. We have used speech bubbles to add what we think think the characters were saying and used expression to talk like the characters too.