Category: English

We were excited to welcome back one of our favourite authors Kerry Gibb to school. Kerry was here to talk about her new book ‘The Elephant Squad’. This new exciting read is in partnership with the Honeypot charity – working with young carers all over the UK. Thank you to Kerry for another wonderful visit…

Pupils at Lyndhurst School were busy over the holidays completing the Spring Challenges in both DoodleMaths and DoodleEnglish. We are delighted to share that they have come out as the TOP SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY for this Spring Challenge on both learning platforms. Well done to all the pupils who took part and thank you…

We always love seeing the book fair arrive at school. The children love looking through new titles to purchase and it gives a boost of excitement to book lovers and reluctant readers alike. Please take the time to look through the books on offer and choose with your children.

Pens, pencils, paper and keyboards have all been working hard recently as have your children’s wonderful minds. Mrs Follows head of English launched our Creative Writing competition and since then every class have been mapping out their stories and perfecting their entries. Entries were shortlisted to 3 per year group. From these, a Lower school…

The Book Fair arrived at Lyndhurst this week. All of the children enjoyed having a look at all of the books and stationery on offer. Parents were welcomed to come and select with their children and purchase on the day or order online. We hope the choices on offer inspire the children to keep reading…

What an exciting week we’ve had at Lyndhurst School with our class poetry recitals and then the finalist recitals.  It was wonderful to have so many parents in school to support their children during this event.  The form teachers had a difficult job select the children to represent their form in the finals. On Thursday…

This week, we had the pleasure of hosting the lovely Jo Stokes to provide Poetry workshops in school. Here are Year’s 3 & 4 thoroughly enjoying creating, writing and performing their poetry ideas. Perfect to see the children perfecting these skills  in readiness for the Poetry Recitals in school next week!

The whole school are hard at work practising for the school Poetry Recital! Everyone is excited to hear these wonderful poems read out loud. The children have chosen their piece or written it themselves and are busy perfecting their performances. We cannot wait.

It was lovely to see more pupils take part in the Doodle Summer Challenge this year in Maths And English. They had to log into their Doodle account every day for 14 days and earn at least 750 doodle stars. Well done to all those pupils – wear your beautiful badges with pride on your…

Across Lyndhurst took part in the Henley Literary Festival through the online workshops.  We were given the opportunity to hear from a fantastic line-up of UK’s bestselling and much-loved children’s authors, We enjoyed the workshops from Henley Literary Festival across the school this week. Reception & Year 1 listened to Kjartan Poskitt and Alex Willmore…