Category: School Blog

Little Lyndhurst – Weighing scales

28th March 2023

In Nursery and Pre-Reception in Little Lyndhurst, they have been enjoying looking at balancing scales as part of their maths activities.  All the children have enjoyed estimating what object they think is heavy and light.  They all had the opportunity to use them independently and see whether their guess was right.

Little Lyndhurst – The Very Hungry Caterpillar

28th March 2023

Nursery and Pre-Reception have been enjoying the topic of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.  They worked together as a class to sequence the story using the pictures.  They had a lot of fun trying to find the correct picture and retell the story.  Some of Pre-Reception children enjoyed printing with tubes to make their own caterpillars. …

Tudor Music Games

27th March 2023

In Music, ‘To play or not to play’ was our Tudor instruments game, where Mrs Peacock our lovely Music Teacher asked the children to try to name the instruments.  Whilst also deciding if they were part of Tudor times or not!  Points were awarded for both!  Years 1-6 were involved in the game and showed strengths in…

Music Assembly

27th March 2023

Congratulations to the students who took part in the recent music assembly.  There were music choices ranging from the classic nursery rhymes “When the Saints Go Marching” to classic songs like “Lazy Sunday Afternoon Blues”.  The students played the piano and sang confidently, the whole school enjoyed watching them and Mrs Peacock their teacher was…

Shakespeare Day

27th March 2023

On Thursday 23rd March, Lyndhurst School was sucked into a time portal and ended up in Tudor England. Thanks to the great company As Creatives, everyone took part in Shakespeare themed workshops run by Jackson Kavanagh (who has over 30 years of experience directing Shakespeare’s plays!) and each year group prepared to act out scenes…

Music Assembly

21st March 2023

Congratulations to the students who took part in the recent music assembly.  There were music choices ranging from the classic nursery rhymes “Mary had a Little Lamb” and “Two Little Dicky Birds” to classic pop songs “Hey Jude” and “I’ve Got This Feeling”.  The students played the piano and recorder confidently, the whole school enjoyed…

Little Lyndhurst – Measurements

21st March 2023

In maths, Nursery and Pre-Reception in Little Lyndhurst have been working on tall and short.   The children enjoyed working in groups and individually at ordering objects from tall to short.  The children then went on a mission to find objects around Little Lyndhurst’s building that were taller or shorter than their mop poles.  They had…

Little Lyndhurst – Nursery

21st March 2023

Nursery in Little Lyndhurst have been enjoying looking at books independently and with their friends, telling the story and predicting what’s going to happen.  They have been using the magnetic letters and the large whiteboard to showcase their their phonics sounds they have been learning.

Little Lyndhurst – Minibeast

21st March 2023

Nursery and Pre-Reception in Little Lyndhurst have been enjoying learning all about Minibeasts in their topic.  The children have been exploring in the small world area with magnifying glasses, looking at each insect.  The children sat in a circle and had to choose an insect to describe, they did extremely well at telling every0ne what…

Red Nose Day

21st March 2023

For Red Nose Day the children were all allowed to wear red – it was lovely to see all the bright clothes around the school. Each child had told their jokes in class then two class representatives presented their joke in the whole school ‘Funny Power’ Assembly.  Mrs Dodd and Miss Symes had the hard…