Category: Early Years

Little Lyndhurst – Garden fun!

24th May 2023

All the children in Little Lyndhurst love exploring out in the garden, especially when the sun is shining.  The children have enjoyed playing with the dinosaurs in the sand pit, exploring the toys in the water tray and pretending to be builders fixing the house.

Little Lyndhurst – Food

24th May 2023

In Nursery, at circle time we talked about foods that are healthy and unhealthy for us. Miss Roshier was very impressed by the knowledge the children showed as some said that cake and chocolate is very sugary and not good for our teeth. They knew that fruit and vegetables are good for us. We talked…

Little Lyndhurst – 2D shapes

24th May 2023

In Nursery and Pre-Reception, the children have been looking at 2D shapes and their properties including, circles, triangles and rectangles.  Many of the children did very well at knowing most of their 2D shapes. We started off with circles then followed by triangles and rectangles. The children enjoyed going around the classroom and spotting circles….

Little Lyndhurst – People who help us

24th May 2023

Nursery in Little Lyndhurst have been learning about people who help us. The children have been pretending to be doctors by looking after each other, the babies and animals. There has been a lot of dressing up as fire fighters, police officers and doctors and small world play with the fire station and trucks. They…

Little Lyndhurst – Bodhi the Pirate Dog

16th May 2023

Both Nursery and Pre-Reception in Little Lyndhurst were treated to a visit from an author called Alison Simpson.  She read the book she has written called ‘Bodhi the Pirate Dog’.  The book is all about her dog named Bodhi and she discussed with the children what her dog was like.  It was a lovely story…

Little Lyndhurst – Musical Bells

16th May 2023

Nursery in Little Lyndhurst enjoyed playing the bells and exploring the different sounds they made.  They shared a set of bells with their partner and ended the lesson with one of their favourite songs, “Sleeping bunnies”.

Little Lyndhurst – Dear Zoo

16th May 2023

Pre-Reception in Little Lyndhurst have been looking at the book ‘Dear Zoo’.  The children got to watch the story and talk about what they saw and what animals they would like as a pet. They all enjoyed painting their favourite Zoo animal, colouring in and completing a game of match the correct skin type to…

ISA Young Storyteller Competition Winners

15th May 2023

Lyndhurst School had fantastic results from the ISA Young Storyteller Competition 2023, winning the award for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Young Storyteller.  Congratulations to our Reception class students who worked together to produce an adventurous and captivating tale.  They showed great imagination and produced some fantastic ideas for their story.  Congratulations also to…

Little Lyndhurst – Traditional Tales

12th May 2023

In Nursery in Little Lyndhurst, the children have been learning all about traditional tales which they focused on the stories ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ and ‘The Gingerbread Man’.   They have done lots of activities based on these stories including building the trolls bridge and using positional language to describe if the characters are on…

Little Lyndhurst – flags and crowns

12th May 2023

In Little Lyndhurst, Pre-Reception enjoyed looking at the King’s Coronation and the history behind the Royal family.   The children really enjoyed creating flags, decorating crowns and kites to fly.