Category: English

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…

Fantastic work from all of the children at Lyndhurst this week. Reception have been hard at work learning all about emergency services. Year 1 have shown off their impressive writing skills and the work they have been doing around telling the time. Year 3 have excelled and focused on statistics, descriptive writing and working in…

So good to see the classrooms back as a ‘hive’ of activity – just the way it should be. Across the school, Reception children have been busy creating beautiful blooms in time for Mother’s Day. Year 2 focused on their Transport topic by making colourful balloons, and in English some impressive Diamante poems. They also…