Category: English

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…

Read all about it – You heard it here first. Yes, it’s true Lyndhurst have launched their very own newspaper. Put together and edited by Year 6 and Miss Joyce, we get the inside scoop on the teachers, exclusives on Lyndhurst going’s on and even a puzzle section! See the link below for a PDF…

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…

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…

Such a busy week at Lyndhurst last week. Kicking off with story writing in Year 1 where the theme continued the African topic, some fantastic writing! Year 2 explored their African theme in Art form with some splendid animal drawings and paintings. Year 3 investigated measurements in Maths and worked together to problem solve. Year…