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French – Food and Drink
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…
Sports – Rainy day Fitness Fun!
Rain didn’t stop year 5 enjoying or enduring an intense fitness club session on Tuesday. The high intensity 25-minute workout included moves such as Travolta’s, Skaters, jumping Jacks and burpees. The fitness sessions are designed to improve all aspects of fitness including, strength, stamina and agility focusing on different elements each week.
Drama – Focus on Narrative and Poetry
Year 3 have been exploring how to turn a narrative into a performance this term, they have taken poems and developed them into dramas. After working on the poem ‘Matilda’ by Hilaire Belloc they went onto work on a variety of other poems. This week they performed ‘The Persuasive Mr Frog’.
Christmas Cards – The Winners!
Drum roll please…… We are very proud to announce our Year group Christmas card winners! The effort and artwork this year has been outstanding and extremely hard to judge. All of the designs were so lovely and festive and will make everyone great cards to send out this year. A huge congratulations to our winners…
Author Workshop – Kerry Gibb
Workshops with Kerry Gibb The children from years 3 to 6 met well-known author, Kerry Gibb, who visited Lyndhurst School today to speak to the children about being an author and to run a workshop for the older year groups. One of the very interesting ideas she shared with us was her opinion that “There is…
Sport – Dance moves at the ready!
Year 2 enjoyed a fun filled dance session led by the swimming teachers on Friday morning. The class took part in a very active session that included the floss, fist pumping and spinning moves. The whole class enjoyed learning some great new moves. Everyone looked to be enjoying themselves especially the swim teachers!
Drama – Royal theme
Year 2 are working hard on their drama skills this half term, they have used newspaper and scarves turning them into different objects and explored how to use their bodies to show different characters. There are really no limits to their imaginations. This week, they acted out a story set in a royal castle. The King and Queen…
Virtual Netball with Barfield
On Wednesday the year 5 and 6 girls took part in a virtual netball challenge against Barfield. In pairs the girls had to do 50 chess passes then score one goal each finishing with ten star jumps. In first place with a super quick time of 59.72 seconds was Freyja and Eesha. A very close second place was Sophie and Josephine on 1.00.90. Seconds. Overall total for all the girls was 8 minutes and 56 seconds. Barfield just beat us to…
Art – Teamwork, Tudors and Movement!
Year 3 have shown super teamwork in art this week with their block work to recreate Van Gogh’s artwork. They had to keep checking that their part of the painting matched up with their team’s. This reflects Vincent Van Gogh’s quote ‘Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.’ Year 4 have started…
Virtual ‘Big Anti-Bullying Assembly’
Lyndhurst School took part in the virtual ‘Big Anti Bullying Assembly’. The key message was ‘Together, we will pledge to put an end to bullying, celebrate diversity and create communities of kindness’. A celebrity packed virtual assembly was beamed into the classrooms on Monday 28th September. The children heard from a host of celebrities on how to tackle bullying including children’s TV presenters Mwaka “Mwaksy” Mudenda and Richie Driss alongside Peter Andre, Katie Leung, Twist & Pulse. …