Category: Competition

The results from the recent LAMDA exams were amazing, we had some great pass marks including 9 children passing with a merit and 19 children gaining a distinction. Fantastic results well done to all the LAMDA actors who took their exams this year.

This week we enjoyed the story telling days launched by a visit from a storyteller.  The children were mesmerized by the retelling of traditional tales and Cinderella and the dragon. The Masked Reader was an enormous hit, every day there were lots of discussions about the teachers’ teeth and eyes trying to identify the mysterious…

A huge thank you to everyone at Lyndhurst for their team spirit embracing our new House Competition.   In their bubbles and Houses the children were set the challenge to build a free standing structure from one newspaper and tape.  The structure had to hold a ping pong ball at the top.  There are many structural…

Cricket match report courtesy of Year 6 boys… Year 5 and 6 had a busy week, as they had a cricket match against their rivals, Barfield. The final run scores were Lyndhurst: 234, and Barfield: 212. Very predictable, as we have some very talented cricketers in our squad. Evan said ” It was a very…

This week a group of year 4 children took part in the annual Greenfield English Competition, hosted by Greenfield School in Woking. This year the event was held online, with the children going up against 12 other schools over eight rounds of tricky questions – including a round on Cockney Rhyming Slang – culminating in…

Thinking caps on….. It’s the Lyndhurst House Quiz! A fantastic virtual quiz this year enjoyed by all year groups in their house teams. The children loved answering the questions and working together. The winning team was…… Yorktown! Well done Yorktown, well done to everyone involved in putting the quiz together and to the children for…

House Fixtures This week was with house sports competitions which has showcased some fantastic fitness and sports skills.  It has also shown how passionate the pupils are for their houses and the determination and competitiveness they have. On Tuesday Years 5&6 took part in the house cross-country event when all pupils competed for points for…

Michael Gove MP visited Lyndhurst last week to present the winner of his personal Christmas Card Competition with a gift. Every year, we send off the Year group winners from the school Christmas Card designs to Michael Gove so that they can be entered into his own competition too. We are very pleased to announce…

The sun finally came out for the first set of this year’s house matches where year 3 & 4 took part in mixed football at London Road.  These annual events are a chance for pupils to pull together an represent their houses with pride.  The matches were very competitive and showed some great skills from…

Well done to the prize winners in the story writing competition set by author Tracey Hall, whose book ‘The Nature Saviours: Ghost of the Mountain’ really inspired the children in years 3 – 6. Entries included stories about snow leopards, birds and pangolins as well as a little bit of panda time travel! The winner…