Year 5 – Srebrenica Remembrance

Earlier this week, Merlins had the privilege of attending the Srebrenica Memorial Service at Shirehall to remember those effected by the events of Srebrenica and to reflect on the importance of kindness, respect and standing up against prejudice.

The children represented our school brilliantly throughout the morning. They listened respectfully, behaved impeccably and showed great maturity. The organisers commented on what a wonderful group they were and that ‘they were a credit to their school’!

Well done Merlins!

YoungMinds Fundraiser!

On Friday, we raised over Β£230 for YoungMinds – a mental health charity for young people and their parents.

School Council would like to thank you to everyone who brought in cakes to sell, helped out after school and anyone and everyone who bought a cake! It was a great way to finish Wear Yellow Friday!

 

For more information about YoungMinds, visit their website YoungMinds | Mental Health Charity For Children And Young People | YoungMinds

Meet our new School Council!

It’s been an exciting half-term at Mereside as every class has been busy electing their brand-new school council representatives. Just like a real election, each child who wanted to take part got the chance to stand up in front of their classmates and explain why they would make a great representative.

The results are now in, and each class has its very own council member ready to share ideas and help make Mereside the best school it can be. A huge well done to everyone who put themselves forward. It takes real confidence and courage to speak in front of your class.

School council will meet every Wednesday with Mr Jones.

Stop-Motion Club!

At Stop Motion Club, the pupils have been bringing Lego minifigures to life using a stop motion app on the iPads. They’ve learned how to carefully move the figures step by step to create the illusion of movement, experimenting with making their characters walk, wave, dance, run and even jump. The children have been developing their creativity and teamwork skills while having lots of fun seeing their ideas transform into mini animated films.

If this is something you want to try at home, you can use down the Stop Motion App for free and start making your own movies at home. You could even write your own script!

Click the link below to see what we’ve been making!

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Christmas Food Bank

Wow! What an amazing effort everyone! 😁

School council would like to thank everyone for their donations today. The food will be delivered to the Foodbank this week.

It was also lovely to see everyone in their Christmas jumpers and enjoying their Christmas dinner!πŸŽ„

 

School Council Bake Sale

School Council Bake Sale! πŸŽ‚

A huge thank you to everyone who brought in cakes and spent their money supporting School Council!

All of the cakes and bakes looked delicious and everything was sold! 🍰🧁

 

School Council Bake Sale Success!

School Council Bake Sale! πŸŽ‚

A huge thank you to everyone who brought in cakes and spent their money supporting School Council!

All of the cakes and bakes looked delicious and everything was sold! 🍰🧁

Our next job is to count up the money during our next meeting which will be after the Easter Holidays.

 

Arthog 2025

Last week, Year 6 went on their annual trip to Arthog. Despite the gorgeous weather, everyone got wet as they took part in gorge walking, canoeing, raft building and games on the beach. Everyone even braved the rock climbing on Barmouth slabs where the wind nearly blew us off the edge!

Mr Jones, Mr Giles, Miss Moffat, Mrs Ackers, Mrs Emden, Mrs Hopley and Miss Scoltock were so proud of the children as embraced the challenges that the new experiences brought. There was lots of laughter and smiles throughout the week and the children will take away memories that will last a lifetime!

Photographs of the trip will be uploaded once we’ve sorted through them.

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