Category: Charity

Never before have so many man made fibres graced Lyndhurst’s classrooms and halls! Who doesn’t love a Christmas jumper?! We all had great fun wearing ours, staff and children alike. It was definitely a day to get everyone smiling and in the Christmas spirit. Lyndhurst certainly know how to rock knitwear. What’s more – the…

Lyndhurst are proud to support the Scar Free Foundation and even prouder of one of their Ambassadors, and our Year 6 girl Delilah. Delilah and her Mum Sophie appeared on BBC television recently to discuss and support the pioneering research programme that the foundation are launching to help identify the scarring gene. Truly remarkable work….

Lyndhurst Remembers  Lyndhurst School came together today for our annual act of Remembrance. During our Remembrance Service today Lyndhurst School, children and staff gathered around the Headmaster’s lawn to pay their respects to those who lost their lives during all wars.  Rupert recited ‘It’s Normal for Me’, a poem written by a submariner’s son and Tilly recited ‘The Grieving Parents’ by a 14-year-old.  Both…

Like around the world Lyndhurst celebrated harvest in their assembly today.  As they entered school in the morning they were greeted by representatives from The Besom and had an opportunity to admire a display of their kind donations.  Thank you to the Lyndhurst families’ generosity in donating food.  The display looked fantastic.  The Besom charity was extremely grateful for Lyndhurst…

The Pre-Reception children and adults have had a mufti day  for Children in Need. They were allowed to wear their own clothes but they had to wear something yellow or spotty so that they looked a little like Pudsey. This morning they decorated some Pudsey cupcakes which were delicious so they didn’t last long! They…

Following our recent Harvest Festival collection of food for BESOM, we were delighted to receive this from them. We are so pleased our gifts are being putting to such good use.

Our ‘Celebrating Differences’ theme for this half term was launched in Upper School Assembly by Callum from Sight for Surrey. He led Upper School Assembly on Wednesday 6th November, he has been blind from birth but this hasn’t stopped him from doing anything. He shared a story with the children about how he learnt to…

This week saw the Bring and Buy sale return to Lyndhurst, and Year 6 had been spending the week sorting and organising the items brought in by the rest of the school to go on sale. Come Thursday morning, in the glorious summer sun, we set up our tables in the playground and arranged the…

Year 4 children recently spent a lovely afternoon with the residents of Kingsclere Care Home. They sang two songs from ‘Dr Dolittle’ play and read out some of their best work to the very friendly residents and carers. One of the ladies there was 102 years old and she still looked great! The children have…

Lyndhurst School took part in different challenges to raise money for the NSPCC ‘Speak Out, Stay Safe’ campaign.  This was a ‘gentle’ warm up for Sports Afternoon! Year 3 and Year 6 worked together as House Teams to complete relay obstacles.  The children had to use various sporting skills during the obstacles including some golf…