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S.T.E.M – Year 5
In STEM, the Year 5 children have been looking into what is in our food? By exploring packaging of everyday foods we have at home and looking at ingredients, additives and weights etc – they can start to understand what they mean and the nutritional value of foods.
Drama – Year 3
Year 3 have been exploring how to turn a narrative into a performance this term, they have looked at taking a poem and developing it into a drama. They have been working on the poem ‘Matilda’ by Hilaire Belloc and have turned it into a wonderful comic play which they loved performing to each other.
Lyndhurst V Barfield
Well done to our girls for taking part in their U11 netball match against Barfield – it was a sunny, if chilly afternoon, and the girls performed really well. Playing 2 games, the first was a 15-10 win while the second was a narrow loss of 9-6. In all, an excellent effort, well done!
Year 2, lot’s to do!
Year 2 have been busy out and about around the school grounds hunting for signs and symbols. I wonder how many they managed to find? All of the children showed some fantastic writing and story telling skills in their English pieces about a trip to Atlantis – well done. To reinforce their place value learning,…
Art at Lyndhurst
The Art department at Lyndhurst are in full swing with lots of exciting new projects taking shape. Year 2 have been learning all about the bold colours and shapes in Kandinsky’s works. Year 3 have been carefully cutting leather in readiness for their Tudor pouches. Continuing with the Tudor theme, Year 4 have been exploring…
Introducing improvisation to bring drama alive!
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 themself ‘what would I do in this situation?’ thus giving a natural reaction to the drama based on a personal response. They are working hard to…
L.E.A.F – with Year 2
L.E.A.F. this week has focused on the use of knots and being able to tie them. We focused on several simple knots to start with and worked as a team to tie reef knots (and in infamous granny knot!) as well as overhand and half stitches. The children made fishing rods, complete with natural bait,…
Year 6 – Salesian Football Tournament
Here are our smiling Year 6 boys with their medals and certificates from taking part in the Salesian 5-a-side Football Tournament this week. They had a great day and thoroughly enjoyed taking part and playing some fantastic football. Well done!
Playtime with Oscar
What a wonderful busy week here at Lyndhurst. Here is a lovely snap of the Year 6 girls enjoying some down time with Oscar. Looks like they have built King Oscar his very own throne! Long live King Oscar!
Drama – Year 5
Year 5 are working on collaboration in drama this half term. Using both scripts and improvisations. This week they worked on a scripted performance titled ‘Cinderella the model’. Which is a different take on a traditional story. They had to work together as a group to rehearse and perform the piece. They learnt that everyone is equally important to the performance whichever…