Category: English

Chinese New Year in Reception

30th January 2023

Reception has been enjoying learning all about Chinese New Year.  They have been really busy making their own Chinese dragons, enjoying a pretend Chinese restaurant and trying fortune cookies.  They also had a go at writing some numbers in Chinese.  In English, they wrote a sentence about Chinese New Year in their books and worked…

Reading Day

17th October 2022

Everywhere we look, we see children reading – looks like the Readathon is working and encouraging Lyndhurst pupils to spend more time with their books! We would like to say a big thank you to Katie, Katie Book Lady (usborne.com), for helping us have a fantastic day celebrating Reading Day.   There were shared reading sessions…

Kerry Gibbs – Author Assembly

1st July 2022

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…

Doodle News – Top in Maths & English

10th June 2022

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…

Book Fair is coming!

11th March 2022

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.

English – Creative Writing Competition

8th February 2022

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…

Book Fair

19th November 2021

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…

Poetry Recital

22nd October 2021

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…

English – Poetry Workshop

15th October 2021

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!

Poetry – Practise, practise practise!

12th October 2021

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.