Category: Year 5

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…

Year 5 are working on collaboration in drama this half term. Using scripts and improvisations in small groups. This week they worked on stichomythic dialogue, a style of acting first used in ancient Greek theatre which flourished between 550 BC and 220 BC. Even though this form of dialogue is so old they have worked…

The Upper School were lucky enough to have a visit from a company dedicated to mobile escape rooms – wooden cubes with more padlocks than a gym locker room. Using carefully laid out Maths clues, the children had to solve problems and puzzles to try and find the combination to the locks, all within an…

Several children this week were fortunate enough to go to Greenfield School to take part in a mock UN discussion and debate. The children had to prepare a presentation of their choice using one of the UN statutes – they chose to focus on climate change and our ability to take care of our planet….

Reception to Year Six gathered along with staff, parents and other family members in the wonderful setting of St. Michael’s Church on Friday 13th December for Lyndhurst School’s annual Carol Service. After a heartfelt welcome from Rev. Nicole, the congregation enjoyed music, readings, prayers and many carols with all the children fully involved. The orchestra…