Latest News

Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Sponsored skipping

  Tue 22 Mar 2016

  This term the children have been raising money for the British Heart Foundation as well as money for outdoor equipment for the school. The British Heart Foundation have given us a school set of skipping ropes to participate in a sponsored skip with the aim to skip at least a thousand times before the end of this term. The children have very enthusiastically got involved at play and lunch times and many of them have already beaten their targets! 80% of the money we raise will be sent to the British Heart Foundation. The rest we will use to ensure that our children have more equipment to play with. Sponsor money is due on or before Wednesday 23rd March 2016.  

   

  

• Take Part Tuesday

  Tue 22 Mar 2016

  In Reception and Nursery parents and carers are being invited into the classroom to see how their children are learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage. This gives parents an opportunity to see how we teach and to get involved with their child’s learning.

  Our first Take Part Tuesday was a wonderful success and we would like to thank all the parents who came to join in. The children were very excited to show their parents how they learn in school and as the photos show everyone enjoyed getting involved with the children's learning.

  Nursery and Reception will have more Take Part Tuesdays next term so look out for your invite!

   

  

• Y6 trip to Oasis Church

  Fri 18 Mar 2016
  Y6 went on a trip to Oasis Church in Colliers Wood. They learnt the true meaning of Easter and all the symbology that is associated with it. They recreated Communion, hunted for Easter eggs, and one child even did a pretend Baptism! 

  

• Art in Y6

  Thu 17 Mar 2016
  Y6 children looked at David Hockney's charcoal drawings. They recreated them using willow charcoal and focused on a small section. Each section, after being completed, was then fitted together to make a larger Hockney- style piece of artwork. 

  

• Science in Y4

  Wed 16 Mar 2016
  In Y4 the children have been learning about digestion and the different functions of parts of the digestive system. They looked at the role that teeth play in the digestive process, and how important caring for our teeth is.They did an experiment to test how sugar effects tooth decay by placing boiled eggs into different drinks, for example milk, coke cola, orange juice and water. They made predictions about what they thought would happen to the different eggs based on the liquid they were resting in and continue to observe the changes to the eggs on a daily basis. 

  

• Clubs- last week of term

  Wed 16 Mar 2016
  Clubs will not be running in the last week of term before the Easter holidays (from Monday the 21st of March to Thursday the 24th of March). If your child normally attends a club alternative arrangements will need to be made to collect them from school at the end of the day. After school club will continue as normal, but will not be running on the last day of term.

• Early morning sport

  Tue 15 Mar 2016

  On Tuesday morning instead of going to assembly Y3, Y4, Y5 and Y6 got active out in the playground. The children participated in the first of many 'rolling' netball games. The children competed in their house groups to see who could score the most points by passing the ball netball style- the only difference was that to score a point they had to roll the ball to knock over some bowling pins. The children scored and umpired the matches themselves and supported their peers by encouraging them and cheering them on. The children showed good sportsmanship by shaking each other's hands at the end of a game and acknowledging how well their opponents had played. It was a very exciting start to the day!

  

• EYFS Parent Reading Meeting

  Tue 08 Mar 2016

  Parent Reading Meeting - Early Years Foundation Stage

  At 2.45pm on Tuesday 8th March, parents from Nursery and Reception are invited to come in and hear how we teach reading. Staff will explain ways that you can help your child learn to read at home.  This is an opportunity to ask any questions about reading and meet our Early Years Foundation Stage Co-ordinator – Miss Pollett.  

  We hope you can make it!

   

• World Book Day 2016

  Fri 04 Mar 2016

  On Friday Merton Abbey celebrated World Book Day. Children and adults dressed up as their favourite book characters and spent the day involved in exciting activities inspired by books such as Matilda, Alice in Wonderland, the Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch and Harry Potter. Some of these activities included making crazy hats for a Mad Hatter's tea party, designing and creating slices of cake eaten by Bruce Bogtrotter, writing picnic poems and making finger puppets of Harry Potter characters inspired by 'The Mysterious Ticking Noise'. Throughout the day the children listened to stories read to them by staff and parent visitors and had plenty of opportunities to read a book themselves.

   

  

• Nurture group trip to Deen City Farm

  Thu 03 Mar 2016
  Nurture group went on a trip to Deen City farm to look at the animals and sustainable environments as part of their 'Changing the world' topic. The trip was also organised as a special treat for the children because it was Miss Canning's last day with the Nurture group before moving on to a new job role.