Category: Year 6

Tuesday has been a great success here in Elan Valley. We spent the morning swinging from trees, with the zip wire hugely popular, the tower-building/crate stacking challenge leading to some excellent teamwork and the infamous high-rope “leap of faith” challenge attempted by all without hesitation. Most of us did better on our second attempts! In…

Well, we all arrived safely in Wales; the children were great on the journey, no one was sick and no-one complained about how long it took. A promising start. When we got to the lodge, we began by finding our rooms and having a cup of tea (that’s the teachers). Then we all got into…

Year 6 had a fantastic trip to the Houses of Parliament in London! They set off from Camberley Station full of excitement as they wondered what the day would hold. Stories and riddles were told on the train as well as jokes and ‘I spy…’ attempts. London Waterloo was busy, and we made our way…

This week saw the beginning of special subject days at Lyndhurst. We started off with Maths. The children began their day with a whole school assembly where we talked about the importance of Maths in our lives and discovered that there is no job that doesn’t need Maths. We also looked at famous people from…

This week, Year 6 took over the Book Fair! The children who took part did an excellent job of customer support, handling stock and cash, and showed exceptional politeness and professionalism throughout. The Book Fair, as always, was a roaring success, and we look forward to the new resources for our school that we will…

We are proud to present our very first issue of The Lyndhurst Ledger – a newsletter created by the children of the Journalism club. This newsletter, made by children from Years 3, 4, 5 and 6, contains news and articles that the children themselves have created. It is the ultimate example of pupil voice –…