2 weeks ago
Posted on 08th May 2025 by Mr Hignett

VE Day 2025!

Today children wrote a newspaper article either from 8th May, 1945 or 8th May 2025 reflecting on the importance of VE day and why it was so special and still is to this day.

They also did some collages of the Union Jack flag using blue, white and red images.

2 weeks ago
Posted on 08th May 2025 by Mr Hignett

Shrewsbury Half Marathon Challenge 2025

Well done to all the participants who took part in the Shropshire Schools Half Marathon Challenge on Saturday 22nd April.

Children completed 12 miles in school leading up to the event, and then completed the final 1.1 miles at Shrewsbury West Mid Showground amongst hundreds of children from across Shropshire schools.

It was great to see so many children having fun, smiling and receiving their medals to acknowledge their achievement of completing the 2025 Half Marathon Challenge!

Primary Schools Half Marathon Challenge 2025

3 weeks ago
Posted on 27th Apr 2025 by Mr Hignett

Easter Project – The Tudors!

Easter Homework Project – The Tudors

1 month ago
Posted on 17th Apr 2025 by Mr Hignett

Year 5’s Tudor Tour Experience

Throughout Spring 2, Year 5s have been learning about The Tudors (A Local Study) in their History lessons.

This started off with looking at The Tudors as a dynasty and using secondary sources to find more information about different areas, such as ‘Monarchs’, ‘Fashion’, ‘Food and drinks’ and ‘Hobbies’.

Moving on, we then looked more closely at ‘Tudor Buildings’ and we identified features of a Tudor Building such as the wattle and daub and the difference between Tudors who had a brick roof/chimney compared with those who had and wooden or thatched.

Children also had a go at drawing a Tudor building.

This then linked nicely when focusing on Shrewsbury being a Tudor town. We came up with some enquiry questions before going on a Tudor tour around Shrewsbury’s town centre with the Shrewsbury museum.

This was a valuable and informative experience where we were retrieving lots of information of primary sources such as the famous Tudor buildings and walking around the cobbled streets of Shrewsbury which were named for their purpose in Tudor times, such as ‘Milk street’ and ‘Butcher row’. Yet again, year 5s behaviour on the trip was exceptional, walking round cautiously, respecting the local community and listening intently throughout.

Back in school, the children then wrote a recount of their tour around Shrewsbury as an extended piece of writing!

See below some of the images from our Tudor experience!

1 month ago
Posted on 17th Apr 2025 by Mr Hignett

Year 5’s London Trip 26.03.25

On Wednesday 26th March, the year 5s had such a special trip which included a tour around the Houses of Parliament, followed by a journey on the London Eye. Leading up to the trip, the Year 5s had been reading the story ‘The London Eye Mystery’ by Siobhan Dowd as their whole class text – this added to the excitement to the trip being able to picture scenes from the story!

It was such a special and valuable experience for the children and the staff. The children’s behaviour was top marks, showing caution whilst walking around the streets of London, as well as respect for the local community. We are sure that they will look back on this experience as a real highlight, when reflecting on their time atMereside.

Thank you to Julia Buckley (Shrewsbury MP) for visiting us and sharing her experiences as an MP and allowing children to ask questions in true parliament fashion teaching us about ‘bobbing’ to catch the Speaker’s eye!

Please see below the video/images of our amazing trip!

1 month ago
Posted on 07th Apr 2025 by Mr Hignett

Mereside Boys football 2024-2025 – Well done and thank you!

A few weeks ago, we received the news that our U10 boys, who had won the Shrewsbury final at the sports village, have received a bye in the county semi-final stage. Therefore, I am proud to share that our U10 boys are County finalists!! ⭐️ This means they have reached the county final two years in a row, which is a huge achievement and one we, as a school, are proud of 👏.

Unfortunately, the county finals are not taking place at Shrewsbury Town FC, like last year. Instead they are taking place at Shifnal Town FC. However, we aim to still make the occasion just as special for the boys and we ask for as many supporters to attend the final to cheer on the boys. Last year they sadly lost on penalties. This year we aim to win the final! 💪🤞

The final is on Saturday 10th May. Kick off time tbc! Please save the date.

In other news, Monday 7th April, sees the last session of after school boys football club. It has been another successful year of boys football. Well done to all boys who have taken part in the club and represented the school in boys football tournaments/fixtures over the year. I look forward to restarting in September for our new U9s, U10s and U11s! ⚽️

1 month ago
Posted on 07th Apr 2025 by Mr Hignett

Mereside Girls Football 2024-2025 – Well done and thank you!

The other week, our U11 girls football team played their Shrewsbury County Plate final match and sadly lost 3-1, in what was a closely fought contest.

We are so proud of the girls achievement getting to the final and with their efforts across the whole season. It has been another successful year for our girls football.

Friday sees our last girls football club session for the season. Thank you to Mr Hole for running these sessions all year.

Well done to all girls who have taken part in the football club and represented the school in football fixtures this year 👏

We aim to run an open evening session in the summer for girls years 1-4 and hopefully we continue to get the numbers when the club restarts in September ⚽️

2 months ago
Posted on 12th Mar 2025 by Mr Hignett

U11 Girls Regional Finals

On Wednesday 12th March, 2025, our U11 girls football team took part in the regional finals at West Brom Academy. This was after the success of the EFL Cup back in October. The girls were representing Shrewsbury Town and played against schools representing teams such as Wolves and Aston Villa. This was an incredible day for the girls, one they will look back on with pride.

Well done girls!

3 months ago
Posted on 13th Feb 2025 by Mr Hignett

Shrewsbury Dodgeball Winners

Congratulations to our Year 5s, who won the Shrewsbury School Games Dodgeball competition! They then went on to represent Shrewsbury at the county finals. A great achievement and experience for them all.

3 months ago
Posted on 12th Feb 2025 by Mr Hignett

U10 Boys County Shield Shrewsbury Winners

Whilst transfers are the talk of the country with transfer deadline day, the real action took place down at the sports village tonight.

To win the Shrewsbury stage of the County Cup last year was impressive, however to go and win it again, two years running, is even more impressive!!!! Congratulation Mereside U10s Boys who won the U10s County Shield (Shrewsbury stage) tonight🥇⚽️

An evening full of action, with it going to the final game in the group stage, where we won 4, drew 1 and lost 1, finishing second in our group. We then beat the winning team in the other group, who hadn’t conceded so far. We won 1-0 with an unreal bicycle kick from Jake – a goal that would be worthy of winning goal of the season in the Premier League 🔥

Then onto the final, a goal from Oakley from a goal kick was also a fantastic strike and put us into the lead! The opponents equalised, taking it to penalties where we won 3-2 on pens with Oakley scoring the winning penalty! 🎉

Overall, some great goals, penalties, assists, saves, tackles and blocks.

A fantastic achievement! Definitely feeling a proud coach tonight – the boys showed fight, determination and a ‘never give up’ and ‘bounce back’ mentality! 🤩
Onto the County semi-finals now ⚽️

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