Category: School Blog
Learning to throw and hit a target!
This week Pre-Reception learnt the under and overarm throwing technique and how to throw to a target. They then used these skills to thrown different types of objects. There were some great throwing skills and lots of laughter particularly when they had to try and hit the teacher.
School equipment – in French
In French this term we’ve started to take a look inside our schoolbags, and we can already recognise and name some of the items…can you?
Acting out poems
Year 1 are working on performance poems this term. Each week they are learning a poem and performing it as a small group or a duo. The children are enjoying working together to decide how they will present their poem, sometimes they are reciting in unison, sometimes dividing the lines between them and sometimes they…
Happy Birthday Mr Rudkin
Hip Hip Hooray it’s someone’s birthday! We all had great fun celebrating Mr Rudkin’s birthday with him this week and wish him many happy returns. The day was full of birthday cheer and surprises. The whole school gathered to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ and Year 6 performed a special birthday song and dance. All year groups…
Welcome to Summer Term!
Hooray! The start of Summer term and the sun is shining. Lots of smiley happy faces this first week back at school. Exciting things ahead this term so keep any eye out for updates on the news and in your weekly form teacher emails. Here’s to a fresh new term full of learning, fun and…
Music – Beyond the Classroom
Year 5 enjoyed their Music lesson ‘al fresco’ this week. Mrs Peacock took full advantage of this gorgeous sunny day and took learning outside. The children loved being outdoors in the fresh air.
Exciting times ahead in the Drama Department!
It is going to be an exciting term for the drama department this term. There is less than two weeks until the LAMDA students take their acting exams. Mrs Draper is very impressed with all her young actors, who are now line perfect and ready to give their best performance for the examiner on the…
Le Petit Chaperon Rouge!
This half-term Reception are preparing to read a well-known story in French: ‘Le Petit Chaperon Rouge!’ We have started to learn some key words, and next week we will be listening to the story to see if we can hear those words.
Easter Bonnets
A truly joyful, happy and fun part of the last day of Spring term – Easter Bonnet parade. The children put so much effort into their bonnet creations and took great pride in wearing and parading them! We captured their year group posing before they headed off around the block to spread some Easter cheer…
House Quiz
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…
