Author: Louise Nye

Musical Monday!

23rd October 2020

Another Monday, another melodic start to our Lyndhurst week. This week we had the musical delight of Alice on the recorder accompanied by Music teacher Mr Dawson. Alice performed beautifully and confidently and all of the children loved listening to her piece. Well done to Alice.

Musical Monday!

23rd October 2020

Another Monday, another melodic start to our Lyndhurst week. This week we had the musical delight of Alice on the recorder accompanied by Music teacher Mr Dawson. Alice performed beautifully and confidently and all of the children loved listening to her piece. Well done to Alice.

French – Pets

23rd October 2020

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…

Drama – Halloween Theme

23rd October 2020

Reception have been getting into the Halloween spirit in drama this week, when they explored the book ‘The Funny Bones’. They chose their favourite part of this story and created a freeze frame which they then brought to life. They went on to act out being the skeletons in the story and giving each other…

Virtual School Council – A Lyndhurst First!

23rd October 2020

Here at Lyndhurst we are getting well practiced in adapting to our normal routines and embracing technology! Hence a Lyndhurst first this week when we held a virtual School Council meeting. We gathered on Teams with the children remaining in their bubbles. The children have been working hard putting together the agenda, and points for…

Lyndhurst Poetry Recital 2020 – Finalists Announced!

20th October 2020

The wait is over…. Last week’s virtual poetry recital was a big success. I’ve received reports from form teachers that children loved seeing themselves on screen, although many hid their faces, which they absolutely shouldn’t have, considering the high quality of the performances! Performing in front of the camera is a big challenge and can…

Autumn arriving at Lyndhurst

16th October 2020

Autumn has officially arrived, bringing with it some showers, bluster and thick woolly jumper worthy weather! Here at Lyndhurst we embrace this change in season and with it the changes to our surroundings and some beautiful colours around the school grounds.   Year 4 have composed poems to describe Autumn.    Autumn is by Year…

Pre-Reception Trip – Imagination Role Play

16th October 2020

The children in Pre-Reception had a great morning at Imagination Role Play in Camberley this week.  We enjoyed being soldiers, pirates, mums and dads and shop keepers using all the wonderful toys to inspire ideas and conversations.  The children particularly liked bringing the toys from one area to use in another, so we had ice cream on the pirate ship, shopping baskets in the cars,…

Poetry workshops with As Creatives

16th October 2020

National Poetry Week with workshops from ‘As Creatives’  On Wednesday 14th October we had a pleasure to welcome Jo Stokes from ‘As Creatives’ who delivered some entertaining and inspiring workshops to all the children.   Performance Poetry workshops were prepared for the youngest pupils and they had been designed to introduce them to the pleasure of poetry! The session began with a brief…

French – Food and Drink

16th October 2020

In Year 4 French this term, we are learning lots of food and drink words, and we have just started putting together a roleplay to use in shops. We can politely ask for an item, ask how much it is, start and finish the conversation properly, and most important of all, have an understanding of what the shopkeeper is likely to say back to…