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What's been happening at St Meryl this week?

• 26th November 2021

  Fri 26 Nov 2021

   We thought that we would share some of the pictures that we found in our archives to commemorate our 70th Anniversary as a school. Although it looks as though we will not be able to celebrate in the way that we intended, we are still grateful to the members of the community who sent or emailed photographs and information to us. We have learnt so much about our school! We will carefully archive these for when people get the chance to properly come in and have a look at them. 

   What was that noise echoing down the corridors on Thursday afternoon? It was Year 4, who were taking part in their first ever trombone lesson! Over the years, we have had intensive lessons from the Herts Music Service with Year 4 - including Djembe drumming and ukulele. But never have we had the opportunity to play the trombone. Although it was the first lesson, and some of us couldn't quite get them sounding like we wanted them to, I know that after much practise we will be confident to perform to the rest of the school. 

  

• 19th November 2021

  Fri 19 Nov 2021

   Pudsey Day! Pupils this year were able to dress up in spots, Pudsey clothes or however they liked - for today marked an inaugural event in St Meryl history - our very first Break the Rules Day!

   Children revelled in the opportunity to eat their dessert before they ate their lunch. Some wore their clothes inside out. Some refused to write for the day (although they typed their responses instead). 

  We raised £257.09 – a great effort! Thank you to Miss Pomfret, Miss Marshall and the School Council for organising the activities for Pudsey Week. 

  In other news, Year 5 participated in some Autumn Art - taking the opportunity to sketch some of the wonderful colours that adorn our school at the moment. 

  

• 12th November 2021

  Fri 12 Nov 2021

  More baking! This week it was the turn of Years 3,5 and 6 – who made pizzas! They final verdict on how they tasted was left up to the families, as somehow every single one made their way home without out a slice being offered to their envious teachers/ head teacher.

  This week was the turn of Year 1 to WOW the audience with their class assembly. Complete with singing, dancing, science, maths, art and so much more, it was brilliant performance. Who knew a class so young could do this?

  In Early Years, poppy prints were made from celery to mark Remembrance Day. We all stood for our two minute’s silence while the Last Post rang through the hallways.

  A pupil shared her writing me on Thursday afternoon, but this was no ordinary piece of writing. This was a TEN PAGE EPIC FANTASY tale. I was captivated by the scale of this piece – the detail of the setting, and the actions of the characters.

   

  

• 5th November

  Fri 12 Nov 2021

  This week – diggers and builders filled the space between Years 3 and 4 classrooms, where it was once a wasteland of overgrown weeds and plants will soon be a brand new Library! We are very excited to soon have a place where we can all enjoy and develop our love for books!tch

  We also saw the return of interschool football to St Meryl! Our first game in a long time saw the might Year 4 and 5 Boy’s team play Chater School. The match report is below:

   

  " Tuesday afternoon saw St Meryl take on Chater at home.  St Meryl started well with a couple of good chances. A good counter attacking goal from Chater saw them take the league after some good defensive play. St Meryl  responded with some nice football, and equalised shortly after with a  goal. If not for chater keeper St Meryl could of had more goals in the 1st half.
   St Meryl responded in the second half with a few good chances. Archie got on the ball and started creating chance after chance and finally Chater defence couldn't cope under the amount of pressure from St Meryl. The 2nd half become a goal feast which saw St Meryl score 8 goals. Great play from Dylan, Archie and Javadali during the game.
   A good first game from St Meryl and plenty of positives to take into the next fixture. Player of the match was George, with a postive attiude and great team play during the game."

   

  Two pupils from year 6 shared some astonishing descriptive writing about a mouth-watering feast, and Year 4 pupils fresh from a triumphant class assembly somehow  found time to make some Diwali sweets.

  In other news, Year 3 also baked some bread under the support of our 2 resident master chefs from Chartwells.