Category: Reception

Healthy Me Day

1st March 2023

Lyndhurst once again celebrated an amazing Healthy Me Day.  Their day, spent learning all about healthy bodies and minds, was jam packed with fun activities designed to get the blood pumping and the brain working. The day started with an Activ8; 8 minutes of rigorous activity to get the day started positively. The children also…

Little Lyndhurst – Puzzle Workshops

1st March 2023

We were delighted to welcome back The Problem Solving Company for their fun and engaging puzzle workshops.  For the first time the whole school were able to experience the delights of collaborative puzzle solving from Pre-Reception to Year 6. Pre-Reception and Nursery enjoyed working together to solve different puzzles. Their first challenge was to match up different…

Dinosaur adventures at Surrey Heath Museum for Reception

1st March 2023

Reception had a very warm welcome from Surrey Heath Museum when they went to learn all about dinosaur fossils.  A big thank you to Samantha from Surrey Heath Museum who showed the children how fossils are made and then all the children went on a picture fossil hunt around the museum. They then did their…

Whole school Puzzle workshop day

28th February 2023

We were delighted to welcome back The Problem Solving Company for their fun and engaging puzzle workshops.  For the first time the whole school were able to experience the delights of collaborative puzzle solving from Pre-Reception to Year 6. Pre-Reception and Nursery enjoyed working together to solve different puzzles. Their first challenge was to match…

Talented Reception student’s Spring Assembly preparation

27th February 2023

As our first ever Reception child to be preparing to perform in the Spring Assembly’s, this Reception class child has already achieved so much during her 1-1 sessions with Mrs Peacock.  Not only is she going to be our first Reception child to perform at a Spring Assembly, she will also be the first Reception…

Reception Maths

10th February 2023

Reception have been having fun exploring numbers and maths.  They enjoyed counting the spots on dominoes and matching them to the correct numbers, which they did a brilliant job matching them up.  The children   also enjoyed using the weighing scales and counting out the correct number of frogs to balance the scales.  The children…

Reception to Year 2 Messy church

7th February 2023

A big thank you to Reverend Pippa Ford and Tori who visited Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 from St Michael’s Church for a messy church session.  The children learnt all about Zachariah and the tree. When they finished listening to the story, they got to decorate their own Rich Tea biscuits with icing, colour…

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…

House meetings

30th January 2023

There was a community feel around the school as Reception to Year 6 met for their House Meetings.  The children shared how they had received their House Points so far this year and there were celebrations amongst the Houses that have already won the weekly House Point Trophy.  Many great ideas were shared on how…

Ugly Ducking drama in Reception

23rd January 2023

Reception class are performing fairy tale stories in drama this term. They have been performing the classic tale of the Ugly Duckling. They loved becoming the eggs waiting to hatch and the ducklings who teased the ugly duckling.  As you can see Reception class had some really good ugly duckling faces as well.