Category: Year 5

On Monday 7th December, Year 5 participated on a Virtual Workshop run by Reading Museum. They learned all about Victorian Christmas. The children were very impressed to find out that Father Christmas used to dress in green and that it was a tradition to put REAL candles hanging from the Christmas tree! That must’ve been…

Lyndhurst girls from Years 5 & 6 took their Grade 2 ABRSM Music exams this week and they were all fabulous. We are so proud of them and the dedication to their lessons and practice. We look forward to their music filling the school corridors and the odd Monday morning assembly soon. Congratulations! Sophia –…

  Year 5 have impressed Mrs Peacock with all their effort and work they have put into their projects on the decade of 80’s music. They have included lots of details, such as year of release for singles as well as albums, looking at genres covered, and even album artwork.  They should be proud of…

Year 5 are studying Mime this half term. Mime is the art of portraying a character, mood, idea, or narration by gestures and bodily movements. They have studied the work of Marcel Marceau and Charlie Chaplin as well as the more recent work of Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean. The children have been learning the…

Year 5 are covering the topic of pets this term; we are using this as a springboard to re-visit and consolidate our understanding of masculine and feminine adjectival agreement. We can express our likes and dislikes orally and in writing, and have started to say what pets we have including colour and size. Later in…

  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.    

On Wednesday the year 5 and 6 girls took part in a virtual netball challenge against Barfield. In pairs the girls had to do 50 chess passes then score one goal each finishing with ten star jumps. In first place with a super quick time of 59.72 seconds was Freyja and Eesha. A very close second place was Sophie and Josephine on 1.00.90. Seconds.  Overall total for all the girls was 8 minutes and 56 seconds.  Barfield just beat us to…

Year 3 have shown super teamwork in art this week with their block work to recreate Van Gogh’s artwork.  They had to keep checking that their part of the painting matched up with their team’s.  This reflects Vincent Van Gogh’s quote ‘Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.’  Year 4 have started…

  Virtual Workshop with Katherine Rundell – Years 5 and 6 – 28th September 2020   Thanks to the wonders of technology and the demands of 2020, Years 5 and 6 joined over a thousand children from across the country for a virtual interview with popular, award-winning author Katherine Rundell, who has lots of fans at Lyndhurst! …

In this week’s Monday Celebration assembly we were treated to a superb rendition of the ‘Can-Can’ from Eesha in Year 5 on flute, accompanied by music teacher Mr Dawson on keyboard. Eesha played beautifully and with great composure and confidence. We are hoping to introduce these live performances to some more Monday morning assemblies. We…