We all benefit from mindfulness – time to be kind to yourself. Mindfulness helps children to focus on what’s happening now and to keep their thoughts from drifting. This week’s mindfulness task was to take a mindful moment to look at the view from Turner Contemporary. Then to use it as an anchor to pull them back to…
Andy Goldsworthy is a key artist in the “Land Art” movement – creating temporary art by working with nature. His art is often temporary, so photography plays a key role in his artwork – capturing the art, before it decays, falls apart or floats away. Reception & Year 1 have been using stones and pebbles to…
There is the music and songs from pop and rock songs, and even the odd novelty song. Even better: the audience always get at least one opportunity to sing along. There is always a fairy on hand to guide the hero or heroine on their way, stepping in with a little magic. And of course,…
Join in if you know the words! Nothing could dampen our Lyndhurst spirits on our last day of term as we gathered outside for one last hurrah. We sang our carols, to anyone that could hear us, for everyone at school and for classmates and staff that couldn’t join us this week. Thank you to…
Today we were treated to the wonderful Christmas Lunch from our talented Chef Mrs Pearson and her fab team. This was a wonderful time for the children and staff to be together (in our bubbles) and to enjoy some normality in these uncertain times and a different last week of term for us all. The…
House Fixtures This week was with house sports competitions which has showcased some fantastic fitness and sports skills. It has also shown how passionate the pupils are for their houses and the determination and competitiveness they have. On Tuesday Years 5&6 took part in the house cross-country event when all pupils competed for points for…
Filming took place this week for the Nativity productions. Mr Rudkin came and watched the performances being filmed “It was so exciting being filmed in our costumes.” “We all acted really hard and can’t wait for you to see the finished films.” Early years have made a film called ‘A Wriggly Nativity’, and years 1…
And just like that… beautiful handmade Christmas Wreaths were created at homes across Camberley and beyond. Thanks to the wonderful team at Flowers by Juliette, our DIY wreaths were delivered to the school and collected by parents. Plenty of tying, trimming and preening was done and well worth it – look at these fab-yule-ous festive…
Lyndhurst are proud to support the Scar Free Foundation and even prouder of one of their Ambassadors, and our Year 6 girl Delilah. Delilah and her Mum Sophie appeared on BBC television recently to discuss and support the pioneering research programme that the foundation are launching to help identify the scarring gene. Truly remarkable work….
Michael Gove MP visited Lyndhurst last week to present the winner of his personal Christmas Card Competition with a gift. Every year, we send off the Year group winners from the school Christmas Card designs to Michael Gove so that they can be entered into his own competition too. We are very pleased to announce…