Category: English

Thank you to all the parents who came to support their children with the poetry recital this morning. The pupils performed their poems with so much confidence and enthusiasm! We are very excited to see the class winners sharing their poems in our whole school recital next week. And the winners are: Reception – Anya…

The book fair this week has been extremely successful. Year 6 have done so well running it, collecting the money and encouraging younger children to read their favourite books! Thank you to all you who purchased the books – now we can update our school library with some popular choices!

Recently the Guildford Theatre Company come to visit us over two days. An excellent assembly kicked off the visit and introduced us to poetry and its delivery. It set a very creative tone for the week. The children were inspired to recite their poems next week for the competition to the best of their ability…

CONGRATULATIONS to Alex for writing an amazing Rainforest story and being awarded first place by the great author, Lou Treleaven, with her newest book “Teachers on Pluto”! She is looking forward to reading it!

Upper School Children have worked extremely hard on their Chance to Change the World stories for @ExploreCambo – we hope we will have a Lyndhurst School winner!

Years 4 – 6 were very lucky to have Sam and Nicky from Explore Learning introducing them to their Writers’Award Competition. The most exciting thing about the competition is the fact that the first prize is a four day break for two adults and two children to Disneyland Paris, including travel and accommodation! For the…

This week Year 4 had a pleasure of being taught by Year 6 children. Year 6 had worked together to prepare a differentiated task, a challenge activity and even Homework! They taught Year 4 children all about Past Perfect tense and showed them how to use it in real life context. The English lesson was a huge…

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…