Category: School Blog

This week reading challenge for the Year 1 – Year 6 children has been welcomed with great enthusiasm! Even the usually reluctant readers were eager to read at form time, break time and lunch time to earn minutes and add them to the class total. The children encouraged each other to read more and really enjoyed reading books…

In art this term year 5 have been studying negative spaces. They have been focusing on the spaces in between objects and spaces where things are missing. They produced some lovely abstract art work using cut outs to illustrate this concept.

Year 2 have been studying the work of Henri Matisse in art lessons. They have painted some lovely jungle leaves and used a sgraffito effect to define the veins on the leaves. We think they look great!

Another great event during the Story Telling Week! Year Three and Four were encouraged to be fearless learners and to take challenges in the Discovery Workshop.  They had to imagine themselves in the Amazon Rainforest as intrepid explorers, but also forgetful, as they had left their camera behind.  The children ‘discovered’ endangered species and had to write…

Year 6 have recently taken their exams for Senior School entry in September and we are delighted to announce some of the results FARNBOROUGH HILL –  all the girls, Rosa, Bella, Eva and Molly  were successful – Well Done! Also, Rosa was called back for further assessments having preformed so well in the initial exams…

We were very fortunate to have Lou Treleaven visiting our school on Monday. Lou writes picture books, junior fiction and early readers published by Maverick Arts Publishing. She spent the day with us to run very exciting workshops on story telling. In the morning, she led a storytime workshop for Kindergarten, Reception, Year 1 and…

This week,  Year 6 had the fantastic opportunity to journey to the Cadet Training Centre in Frimley. Everyone was so excited because we took the No. 1 bus, aka the Big Gold Bus. When we got there we were amazed by the beautiful building in front of us – the Cadet Training Centre. Venturing in,…

  All of Team Lyndhurst wish our Year 6 pupils the VERY BEST OF LUCK this month as they take their examinations for entry to Senior School. You have all worked so hard, relax and do you very best.

The last working day of the term has arrived at Lyndhurst. All the children have worn Christmas jumpers and made a donation to the Mayor’s Charity. The morning started with a Whole School Assembly where achievements for the term were handed out and celebrated. A busy day ahead – singing rehearsals, movie watching, Father Christmas…

The Snow Queen came to Lyndhurst School on Wednesday when the Hobgoblin Theatre Company came and performed their production of the Snow Queen to the whole school. The children laughed and cheered and joined in happily with all the characters. They watched as the heroine Gerda rescued her friend Kai from the clutches of the…