Category: Year 1

Year 1 End of Term

14th December 2023

The end of a very busy week (and year!) at Lyndhurst. Our Year 1 class celebrated today with Christmas Jumper Day along with a very special visit from Father Christmas, followed by hot chocolate and candy dipped breadsticks while watching The Snowman. A lovely day was had by all.  

Yr1 & Yr2 Nativity

8th December 2023

The amazing efforts of our Year 1 and 2 students (and teachers!) paid off as they delivered a fantastic performance this week, they were all amazing! Well done to everyone involved “Wow! What a wonderful show full of happy, excited and confident children. They are comfortable on the stage but even more importantly supportive of…

S’mores for Year 1 and 2

20th October 2023

Year 1 and 2 loved their end of term Outdoor Learning lesson by making s’mores on the fire.  The children loved decorating the biscuits with a chocolatey sauce and sprinkles.  They toasted their marshmallows on the crackling fire and loved watching the marshmallows squish together between the biscuits.  They all said they wished they could…

Lyndhurst School Recycling Monster

17th October 2023

At Lyndhurst School, we are always actively encouraging children to recycle items where they can’t be reused.  To help with this encouragement, we have a new arrival at the school…the Lyndhurst School Recycling Monster.  All the children can enjoy feeding it their recycling items and we look forward to watching their imagination go wild thinking…

Year 1 Birdworld adventures

13th October 2023

The Year 1 children had a wonderful time at Birdworld, where they learned about different birds from around the world and their habitats. We particularly enjoyed watching the penguins being fed, although the smell wasn’t so great! Did you know that there are penguins in Southern Africa, not just the South Pole! The toucan was another…

Lyndhurst’s green fingers supporting the Co-op

10th October 2023

Earlier this year, our pupils kindly donated some seedling that they grew over the half term holidays, as part of the the Co-op’s Spring Challenge to support Yateley Industries Community Pantry Garden Project.   We are delighted to share an update on how the seedlings have blossomed into fabulous plants.  The community there have harvested some of the…

Part-Whole Models in Year 1

10th October 2023

In Maths, Year 1 have been working on developing their understand of the part-whole models.  They enjoyed using the Numicon and Multi-link to visually represent the different numbers and activity will leads on to Year 1 working on simple addition and subtraction calculations.       

Year 1 – RE Harvest time

9th October 2023

In RE, Year 1 have been learning about Harvest Festival and how Christians give thanks to God for the food they receive during Harvest time. They used salt dough to make different parts of a Harvest loaf and made some lovely mice and plaits. They talked about what they were thankful for and how they…

Year 1 French – The Very Hungry Caterpillar

5th October 2023

This term, Year 1 are preparing to read ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar.’ They can already name some fruits and sing a song about them, ‘Pomme de reinette.’ They have been playing a game of ‘What’s missing?’ with their fruit toys. They have also been learning the days of the week, and have been doing a…

Doodle Summer Challenges

5th October 2023

It was lovely to see so many of our pupils take part in the Doodle Summer Challenge this year in Maths and English. They had to log into their Doodle account every day for 14 consecutive days and earn at least 600 stars for the younger children and 750 doodle stars for the older children…