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A great drama warm up exercise is imagining you are eating different flavoured sweets.  This warms up the mouth and creates entertaining faces. A tableau is a frozen picture or snapshot that shows a scene from a story. A group of tableau is a tableaux. The children enjoyed forming frozen scenes.  Drama uses your imagination…

Being creative is all part of mindfulness – Year One made these delightful rain sticks.  The music they make are very calming. 

Did you know there are 60 species of butterflies in U.K.  Did you know the smallest butterfly is the Western Blue Pigmy, which is only 2cm across.  Did you know butterflies taste with their feet! They bring so much pleasure. With a little paint and paper these beautiful insects were created.

As usual Lyndhurst children ‘stepped up’ for the Mrs Jones’s Weekly Sport’s Challenge.  It was great to see pictures and videos of children walking out and about with their families. We also had children stepping it up at home and with their dogs!  The children at school found different ways of moving around the school…

For art, across the school the children explored one the world’s most artist, Pablo Picasso.   He was experimental in his approach to art, often painting a common object or person from lots of different angles in one picture – cubism.  The children used different mediums to create their artwork this year using paint, pencil, pen and playdough for their faces.  These were exceptional…

Drama at Lyndhurst School is always entertaining.  The children used an object to have an imaginary telephone call.  There were a range of calls including a chat with the neighbour about a noisy dog and a gossip with friends. It was incredible fun to hear the conversations as the children created the illusion that there…

“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”  For Rainbow Challenge we thought about how important Friendship is.  They discussed how the  world would be with no friends and how everyone would feel.  Year 6 compiled a Friendship song list there are super songs to listen to – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0B9hVGFdO3nSEz2a0Nf3oJ?si=_4EFCBwpTt2gTbi5YjNmbQ&nd=1 Year 6 wrote ‘What is a friend?’ A…

For Mindfulness across the school the children explored self-control.  They thought about ‘Why Do We Lose Control of Our Emotions?’ They thought about the reasons people ‘Flip their lid’ and recognised that it is a behaviour that we choose to do in response to an emotion we are feeling. There were some thoughtful reflections on…

Using scraps of newspaper or magazine strips and a outline shape the children have created these awesome silhouettes projects.  They have made ‘statement pieces’ which look truly artistic. Well done.

To mark the end of Children’s Mental Health week organized by Place2Be, on Friday was our ‘Inside Out Day’. During their ‘Rainbow Session’ the children wore an item or two of clothing inside out and took a moment to stop and think how others are feeling.  The children discussed why it is important to be…