Category: House Event

A huge thank you to everyone at Lyndhurst for their team spirit embracing our new House Competition.   In their bubbles and Houses the children were set the challenge to build a free standing structure from one newspaper and tape.  The structure had to hold a ping pong ball at the top.  There are many structural…

Thinking caps on….. It’s the Lyndhurst House Quiz! A fantastic virtual quiz this year enjoyed by all year groups in their house teams. The children loved answering the questions and working together. The winning team was…… Yorktown! Well done Yorktown, well done to everyone involved in putting the quiz together and to the children for…

House Fixtures This week was with house sports competitions which has showcased some fantastic fitness and sports skills.  It has also shown how passionate the pupils are for their houses and the determination and competitiveness they have. On Tuesday Years 5&6 took part in the house cross-country event when all pupils competed for points for…

The sun finally came out for the first set of this year’s house matches where year 3 & 4 took part in mixed football at London Road.  These annual events are a chance for pupils to pull together an represent their houses with pride.  The matches were very competitive and showed some great skills from…

Something amazing happened at Lyndhurst on Tuesday afternoon – House Christmas Tree Competition.  Each tree was dressed in child crafted and designed decorations to create a cosy festive scene in the Griffin where each House tree stands proudly. A big thank you to Year Six for leading this magical event and ensuring it was a…

  Happiness is … Choosing the winners for the House Competition was a tough job however after much deliberation the winners were selected.  Congratulations to James and Felix for your special commendation and to Josie, the Lower School Winner.  Miss van Niekerk was awarded the adult winning certificate chosen by Year Six.  We also enjoyed…

  This week all of year 3 & 4 took part in a cross-country session in preparation for this year’s house event which will take place on 15th December.  This term we have been working hard on fitness and stamina and it showed in the quick times we had for completing 4 times around London…

The House School Photography Competition this year was based on the theme ‘ Happiness is …’ this was open to adults too.  The children are choosing their favourite entry sent in by the residents from Corrina Lodge, Year Six will be judging the adult entries whilst the teachers will be selecting the winning entry sent…

Something amazing happened at Lyndhurst today … the Christmas festivities started in full swing, with the children from Reception to Year 6 working together to dress their House Christmas tree.  There was a wonderful joyful competitive atmosphere between the Houses as glitter, glue, scissors, paper, laughter and sparkles were used to decorate their tree.The incredible community…

University Challenge has got nothing on us!  The Annual Lyndhurst School House Quiz took place in a ‘hot-house’ – quite literally – of questions and answers. After a valiant battle, Yorktown were victorious!  Well done Yorktown!