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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…

Like around the world Lyndhurst celebrated harvest in their assembly today.  As they entered school in the morning they were greeted by representatives from The Besom and had an opportunity to admire a display of their kind donations.  Thank you to the Lyndhurst families’ generosity in donating food.  The display looked fantastic.  The Besom charity was extremely grateful for Lyndhurst…

Never too early to get prepared for Christmas! The children had worked so hard on their Christmas card designs, this means that the judging gets harder and harder. Mr Rudkin, Mrs Alder and Mrs Dodds had their work cut out picking a winner from each year group and overall school winning design. Watch this space…

Students in lower school singing have been enjoying getting back together in a safe environment to enjoy some of their favourite songs and learn some new ones too! Mrs Peacock has been impressed with the effort and smiles that all of the children have brought to the hall since the start of term.

  In French this week, Year 2 have been learning about transport, and (optimistically!) saying how we are going to Paris…can you guess the method of transport from this photo?

Oscar says….. Taking part is fun! Oscar had great fun and felt very important helping Mr Rudkin with both the striking and fielding and fitness after school clubs this week. The children played a variety of games focusing on ball skills and hand eye coordination. Oscar made sure everyone had fun and was on hand…

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…

It is great to see some new, excited faces at Scrapbooking club this term. The children had great fun and showed a real creative eye when designing and completing their scrapbook covers this week. We look forward to seeing the ideas they have to fill the rest of the pages!

In French this week we have been learning days of the week and some fruit words, in preparation for reading the French version of a popular children’s book later this term…can you guess what the book might be?! 

Year 6 have been studying the acting techniques developed by Constantine Stanislavski. Using his ‘magic if’ to bring realism into drama set in everyday situations. The actor must ask himself (or herself) ‘what would I do in this situation?’ thus giving a natural reaction to the drama based on a personal response. They are working…