Glad to see everyone return from our half term break feeling refreshed and enjoying this lovely early spring weather.  The group of pupils and staff who spent the week at Calvert Trust just before the holiday had an amazing week full of adventure and exciting activities - well done to everyone who went and had a go! Another group will be visiting Center Parcs later this half term. Our Valentine Disco was another success enjoyed by pupils and siblings alike. Last half term we had the opportunity for several classes within lower school to visit Jump Warehouse in Southport - again a new experience for many pupils but one that was wholeheartedly embraced!

 

Thank you to all parents/carers who completed and sent in the LPPA Questionnaire - it is so rewarding to read how highly everyone regards the school and also how successful the weekly pupil newsletters and the Class DoJo App are. A general comment regarding things that could be improved was related to advanced warning of events - we do try to give as much notice as possible but sometimes we only find out about activities at the last minute ourselves! However I promise we will endeavour to send any dates out as soon as we can so families have enough time to prepare.

 

This half term will see school celebrate World Book Day and also Comic Relief. Letters and information about our World Book celebrations have already gone home with the theme this year being The World of Narnia - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. I am looking forward to seeing all the varied creative learning activities that are going to take place during our celebration week!

 

School continues to take part in a very wide variety of sporting activities with Table Football being this weeks competition - come on Team Merefield! We will be taking part in a very special musical project next term with other local special schools - this will be a wonderful opportunity for a group of pupils to experience different musical instruments and to participate in a musical concert in July.

 

Early in February we were externally assessed against the Early Years Quality Mark - a framework with statements across all aspects of school life. Although we are awaiting our written report the verbal feedback we received at the end of the visit was wonderful - our assessor could not praise the school highly enough. I will share exact feedback once we have our report.

 

As you can imagine I spend a lot of my time with various visitors to the school who are here for many and varied reasons - I am always so proud and honoured when they tell me what a wonderful atmosphere there is in school. The pupils are always so happy and proud to talk to any visitor and show them their work and visitors always comment on the excellent relationships between pupils and staff. Well done and thank you to everyone within our wonderful school community.

 

Sue

 

 

Safer Internet Day 2019 will take place on Tuesday 5th February with the theme ‘Together for a better internet'.

Coordinated in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre the celebration sees hundreds of schools and organisations join together to raise awareness of online safety issues and run events and activities right across the UK.

Find out more! www.saferinternetday.org.uk #SaferInternetDay2019

 

We are raising the profile of e-safety by sharing a range of parent guides. 

What a wonderful last two weeks! Amazing Christmas productions, lovely Upper School Christingle Service, Lower School Christmas Party, various class trips to places near and far and this afternoon a very musical Christmas sing-a-long with friends of Georgina joining us with brass instruments and a choir. Thank you everyone for joining in and Happy Christmas to you all

 

Best wishes

 

Sue

Well here it is, Merry Christmas, everybody's having fun, Here's to the future now it's only just begun.....

 

Last Monday was truly the start of the Christmas festivities here at Merefield with our participation at the Ainsdale Schools' Community Advent Service. Our pupils were the stars of the show even if I say so myself!!  Merefield also joined in with the Ainsdale Community Christmas Tree festival last week with a tree that had a handmade bauble from each class. Our Parent/Carer Christmas Lunches were as popular as ever with everyone appreciating the amazing work from Claire and her team in the kitchen to produce such wonderful Christmas lunches for so many. Last week ended with an action packed fun-filled Friday for all pupils - either at Gullivers World in Warrington or here at school at the Merefield Circus Day.

 

This week it is all about the Christmas Shows - always a highlight of the year! Don't forget to bring your purses as Upper School will be selling their beautiful Christmas decorations that they have made during their enterprise sessions.

 

As well as taking part in all these lovely activities we have not forgotten those less fortunate than ourselves and I would like to thank everyone who has sent in donations for the shoebox appeal and also our Foodbank collection.

 

Alongside all these whole school events there are individual class trips out, upper school Christingle service, breakfast with Santa and various other special happenings between now and the end of term. As always non of these things would take place without the hard work and dedication of our wonderful staff - my very grateful thanks to everyone for their continued passion and commitment to Merefield school.

 

Very best wishes to everyone within our wonderful Merefield community

 

Sue

 

Thank you so much everyone for all your good wishes and kind comments on my return to work! I am delighted to be back and also so proud of the continued successes of the whole school community during this past year.

 

We are currently drawing together our Christmas diary and dates will be sent home this week. As you will be aware Children In Need will be taking place on Friday November 16th but as we are on an INSET Training day on that Friday we will be celebrating on THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15TH - more details will be sent home soon.

 

Thank you to everyone who attended the Monster Mash disco on Tuesday - especially Rachael S-W for organising. Next week we will be taking part in a Southport celebration of the centenary of World War 1 - two pupils and staff will be attending a special event at St Cuthberts Church along with representatives from other Southport schools.

 

Anyway just wanted to say hello and re-start this monthly update - see you in December no doubt surrounded by tinsel!

 

Sue

Merefield's Monster Mash Disco

 

Tuesday 30th October 2018

From 3:30pm to 5pm

 

£2.50 per ticket (includes food and drink).

Tuck shop, games and face painting also available.

All money raised will be for new school resources.

 

If you're interested, please ask at reception.

A group of swimmers made the journey to London to take part in the Panathlon National Swimming Final!  This was a fantastic opportunity and we were delighted to accept the place.  The competition was tough and we came 7th out of 11 schools from all over the UK.  It was made extra special to have some of our families watching us from the stands having also made the journey down to London.  

Well done Team Merefield!! 

A quick update to say that the signalong resources for parents are now up on the website and can be found by clicking here.

For individuals that were unable to attend the total communication workshop which was held on the 1st February by Jessica Bolton (Curriculum Lead for My Communication) and Amy Furlong (Speech Therapist) . You can access the resources of that workshop by clicking here.

We have received our inspection report from Ofsted. To view the report, please click here.