Category: English

This week reading challenge for the Year 1 – Year 6 children has been welcomed with great enthusiasm! Even the usually reluctant readers were eager to read at form time, break time and lunch time to earn minutes and add them to the class total. The children encouraged each other to read more and really enjoyed reading books…

Another great event during the Story Telling Week! Year Three and Four were encouraged to be fearless learners and to take challenges in the Discovery Workshop.  They had to imagine themselves in the Amazon Rainforest as intrepid explorers, but also forgetful, as they had left their camera behind.  The children ‘discovered’ endangered species and had to write…

We were very fortunate to have Lou Treleaven visiting our school on Monday. Lou writes picture books, junior fiction and early readers published by Maverick Arts Publishing. She spent the day with us to run very exciting workshops on story telling. In the morning, she led a storytime workshop for Kindergarten, Reception, Year 1 and…

We have just received a fantastic news that Alexandra’s article had been selected as the winner in the age 7 – 9 category for the Surrey Advertiser competition! After Kerry Gibb’s visit at our school, Alex was  inspired to take part in the writing competition and she reported on a local event. She used a very effective alliteration for…

The Lyndhurst Book Fair has been enormously successful; children have found books that they love and will benefit so much from having done so. A large selection of age-appropriate children’s books was on display in the hall and everyone was extremely excited about buying and reading them. We managed to collect £395.18 – thank you for your generosity!

WOW… What a magnificent event that was! The class winners performed in front of the whole school, their parents and grandparents. The children did their best and we are so impressed that every single one of them was able to recite their poem from memory! Even Annabel and Bradley in Year 3, learnt their poems…

To begin with, I would like to thank all of you who showed so much support to prepare your children for this wonderful school event. I can clearly see that all of you worked extremely hard over the half term so the children were confident and proud to perform the poems they had chosen. Poetry is…

Kerry Gibb, a local author of It’s A Kid’s Live series, spoke to Year 1 – Year 6 children today. She introduced them to the main character of the series, Ben Collins.  He is the eldest in his family and should know better than his siblings but somehow he always gets into trouble.  However, he is…

Lower School & Reception Roald Dahl Day On Thursday Lower School and Reception joined the worldwide celebrations for Roald Dahl.  They had a ‘funtastic’ Dahlicious Day.  They dressed up as all the different marvellous Roald Dahl characters.  At Lyndhurst for the day there were Matildas causing mischief, Oompa Loompas singing as they worked, Miss Trunchbull telling the teachers off, Charlie…