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  • 17/03/23

    Children's Mental Health

    Last week the children learnt about the new calm zone we are creating outside Kestrels and Sparrows classrooms. The pupil voice champions have been working with Miss Gover and Mrs Luddington to develop this space. Champions suggested having binoculars for bird watching, bird boxes, bird identificati...
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  • 10/03/23

    Year 1 Creature Teachers

    Year 1 Creature Teachers As part of our science learning this half-term, we are exploring the different animal groups such as mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles. This week we had some crazy creatures come to visit us! We got to meet an owl, chinchilla, tomato frog, python, corn...
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  • 02/03/23

    World Book Day

    World Book Day! Staff and Pupils at Merley First School shared their love of books and reading with each other by dressing up, talking, drawing and laughing. All staff dressed up as Roald Dahl book characters. World Book day is a global event celebrated by over 100 countries across the world...
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  • 24/02/23

    BCP Music Hub 'Soundstorm'

    As part of our membership to the BCP Music Hub 'Soundstorm' we were able to arrange a date for all pupils in school to experience some live music right here at Merley First School. Teachers and pupils were treated to an uplifting musical performance from Thokozile which included Soundst...
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  • 10/02/23

    Safer Internet Day

        This week we have focused on the importance of Internet Safety. The theme for this year is ‘Want to talk about it?’ which is promoting conversations about experiences and issues that children experience online.  The children thought about the different dev...
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  • 10/02/23

    Magical Merley Memories

    Merley memories - Spring term 1
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  • 10/02/23

    New Outdoor Adventurers Tree House

    New tree house in outdoor adventurers A big thank you to Evie’s Dad, Ben Good along with Grandad, David Good (BPS Builders) the outdoor adventurers now have an amazing tree house to enjoy in the nature area. They have done a fantastic job and all the wood was kindly donated by Travis Perkin...
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  • 03/02/23

    The Bishop of Salisbury visit

    This week The Bishop of Salisbury, The Rt Revd Stephen Lake, visited The Lantern Church to meet members of the community and hear about the fantastic work and support that goes on. We were delighted to be invited, Katharine Anstey attended with the Year 4 pupil voice champions to talk a...
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  • 03/02/23

    Year 2 Crazy Creatures

    This week year 2 had the amazing Ian from Crazy Creatures come and visit us. He showed us lots of different creatures that can be found in or near Jamaica. The creatures included a Tarantula, Scorpion, giant cockroach, Blue tongued skink and Royal Python! This supported our science learning...
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  • 03/02/23

    Year 4 - Georgia and the Iceberg

    Today the children had a return visit from the theatre company that the children enjoyed in Year 3. They showed the children the next part of their show and then completed some workshop activities in small groups. The children were incredibly engaged in the process and loved hearing the next instal...
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  • 27/01/23

    Year 1 East Dorset Museum

    This week Year 1 visited the East Dorset Museum. They walked down to Wimborne and represented the school beautifully. They took part in a range of workshops including creating peg dolls, playing traditional games, looking at toys from the past and attending a Victorian school. The children had a fan...
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  • 20/01/23

    Year 2 Outdoor Adventurers

    Year 2 had a great time this week at Outdoor Adventurers.  They took part in a scavenger hunt where they searched the nature area for small sticks, tiny leaves and anything colourful or unusual. Great fun was had by everyone.
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