Category: Sports

The children at Lyndhurst have been making the most of the Spring weather. Years 3 & 4 have been brushing up on their tag rugby skills this week. Getting out into the fresh spring air, learning new skills, improving on others and giving everything a good go in true Lyndhurst and sporting spirit. Well done!

Children from across the school focused on spelling in this recent sports challenge. Getting both minds and bodies active by carrying out a sport or activity to represent each letter of your name! We saw a whole array of actions, sports and skills here and are so proud of the children across all year groups…

What creative and active children we have at Lyndhurst School !  Last week’s obstacle course challenge was amazing.   Great courses were created in the children’s houses, gardens, and outside in parks and forests and on the schools Astro!  The courses also included lots of skills from previous weeks challenges such as ball skills, balancing,…

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…

  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…

Balance was the theme for Pre-Reception’s PE lesson this week.  They are learning the basic Fundamentals of movement which are the basic building block of early sport and physical activity.   They had great fun leaning to fly around the courts whilst balancing a cone on their heads.  The soared high, low, round and round and…

Team Building This week’s PE lesson focused on team building and effective communication skills.  Tasks including leading a blindfolded partner around an obstacle course, partner stands and number groupings.   Year 2 had to work together to travel with the ball only touching a certain body part, some tasks were harder than others but overall, everyone…

  Rain didn’t stop year 5 enjoying or enduring an intense fitness club session on Tuesday.  The high intensity 25-minute workout included moves such as Travolta’s, Skaters, jumping Jacks and burpees. The fitness sessions are designed to improve all aspects of fitness including, strength, stamina and agility focusing on different elements each week.    

Year 2 enjoyed a fun filled dance session led by the swimming teachers on Friday morning.  The class took part in a very active session that included the floss, fist pumping and spinning moves.   The whole class enjoyed learning some great new moves.  Everyone looked to be enjoying themselves especially the swim teachers!