Merryhills Primary School

Whats On - Summer Term 2012

list will be updated accordingly

May
Thursday 3 School Closed Polling Station
Monday 7 May Day Bank holiday school closed
Wednesday 9 Cricket league games at Enfield Grammar School 3.45pm
Mon 14 – Fri 18 KS2 Sats Wednesday 16
Thursday 17 May Year 5 swimming re starts
Wednesday 23 Yr 6 Harry Potter Studios
Thursday 24 Class Photographs
28—1 June Year 4 Gilwell Park Week
Wednesday 30 Rounders league games at Enfield County School 3.45pm

JUNE
Friday 1 Torch relay day
Friday 1 June Last day of term school closes normal time

Monday 4 – Friday 8 HALF TERM WEEK
Monday 11 INSET DAY SCHOOL CLOSED TO CHILDREN

Tuesday 12 Children return to school normal time
Tuesday 12 Best team kwick cricket at Edmonton CC
Wednesday 13 Yr 5 additional swimming lesson (to replace 3 May)
Wednesday 13 Cricket league games at Enfield Grammar 4pm
Thursday 14 Girls kwick cricket tournament at Edmonton CC
Thursday 14th Yr 5 Swimming lesson as normal
Friday 15 Yr 3 Oakwood Library
Friday 15 Non uniform day for summer fete
Tuesday 19 Partnership cricket tournament The Walker Ground Wednesday 20 Rounders league games Enfield County Girls School 3.45pm
Saturday 23 June 5 a side football for summer fete
Sunday 24 June Summer Fete
Monday 25 Yr 6 Guardian Newsroom visit
Monday 25 KS1 Sports Day 1.30pm
Tuesday 26 Yr 6 Guardian Newsroom visit
Tuesday 26 Yr 2 Butterfly World
Thursday 28 Yr 4 Kentwell Hall trip

JULY
Tuesday 3 Reception visit to Knebworth
Thursday 5 July KS2 Sports Day 1.30pm
Friday 6 PA school disco
Tuesday 10 Yr 6 Production
Wednesday 11 Yr 3 Walton on the Naze trip
Thursday 12 Year 6 Production
Thursday 12 Yr 5 Last swimming lesson
Monday 16 Partnership schools swimming gala
Tuesday 17 Year 6 Leavers Disco
Thursday 19 Y6 6 Leavers day activities
Friday 20 Last day of term school closes at 2pm

Posted on 9.05.12

Primary Debating Competition Success!!!!

As mentioned in our previous newsletter our Yr 6 debators reached the final of the Enfield Primary Debating competition which took place in the Enfield Council Chambers. They were given 2 motions to prepare in advance of the competition but, as they didn’t know whether they would be debating for or against the motion, they essentially had to prepare four debates!

On the day, Sofia, Harsh, Zahir and Pooja were all rather nervous but also eager to show what they could do. After drawing straws to find out which motion they would be debating, they were pleased to find it was one of their favourite choices.
Finally, their turn arrived Merryhills vs St Andrews – the motion – ‘this house would leave London during the London 2012 Olympic games’.

Harsh spoke first and set out the team’s arguments very clearly. When Zahir spoke, he not only added reasons to leave but also explained why the opposition arguments were wrong. The final speaker of the debate was Pooja. Her job was especially difficult – to summarise the whole debate including her own teams’ points of view, what the opposition had said and points from the floor. She was amazing! After a few minute’s deliberation from the judges, they announced who was in the final. We held our breath… then let it out in a great cheer as we found out —MERRYHILLS!!!!

For the final, the team had only 30 minutes to prepare a debate and Miss Clifford wasn’t allowed to help them! Working from only their own knowledge and a single prompt sheet, they organised their ideas between themDuring the debate, all 3 debaters were amazing, as was Sofia who added ideas during the floor debate to help her team mates. They all spoke clearly, persuasively and when it was announced that Merryhills had won the whole tournament and were the best of 18 schools we were all amazed and hugely proud.
The team will now be representing Enfield at the All London Finals !
A fantastic achievement well done to our great debators.

Photographs to follow……………

Posted on 2.03.12

Merryhills after school Sports Clubs

Our Summer after school sports clubs start week commencing 23 April.

Yr 6 Cricket Club – Mondays
Yr 6 Rounders Club – Tuesdays
Yrs 5 & 6 Athletics Club – Wednesdays
Yr 6 & Girls Yr 5 Netball Club – Thursdays

Posted on 30.01.12

Cross Country February 2012

On a bitterly cold Saturday morning our cross country team competed in the Enfield Primary Schools Cross Country event at Trent Park. The course was 1.5 miles long with 117 girls and 128 boys from 25 schools taking part.

Merryhills pupils ran a great race – the girls results were: Meghan 2nd, Alison 58th, Jolie 76th, Chloe 77th, Zara 79th. The boys results were: William 18th, Joe 38th, Lucas 50th and Alexander 57th, Costa fell so was unable to finish.
Overall position put Merryhills boys in 9th place with 106 points and girls in 13th place with 137 points. Well done to all our fantastic runners who have been given Olympic value awards by Mr Wheeler for determination and courage.

PREVIOUS CROSS COUNTRY SUCCESS!!
On 16 November, our Cross Country Team took part in the annual event at Hadley Wood School.
We did exceptionally well with Meghan and Alison (Chestnut) taking 1st and 2nd second place respectively in the girls race. In the boys race Lucas (Oak) finished 2nd with Costa (Elm) 3rd.
The rest of the team ran really well and from their efforts ensured the boys came 1st in their category and the girls came 2nd
The team score overall confirmed that Merryhills were RUNNERS UP in the competition!!!.
Well done to our fantastic runners you have done Merryhills proud!!!
Meghan, Alison, Cate, Jolie, Chloe, Sophia, Zara, Lucas, Costa, Franco, William M, Joe, Alexander, William D, Michael, Jake, Ahmet.

Posted on 18.11.11

Merryhills Expansion

The building work is progressing well. Staff and pupils have been out visiting the site in their hard hats and hi vis vests!!

Posted on 7.10.11

Cricket Finals @ The Hub

After our win at the ‘Best Team Cricket’ tournament at Enfield C.C we were entered into the Middlesex Finals at The Hub, Regents Park.
We arrived in glorius sunshine and played some very strong teams. We actually won 3 out of 4 games and tied with two other schools. The numbers of runs were counted to deterine who would go through to the semi finals. Unfortunately we had not scored enough runs and sadly had to watch the other teams go through.
HOWEVER, everyone agreed that we had had a great time and felt very proud of the fact that we had reached the county finals and had the opportunity to play at The Hub.
Well Done Cameron, Campbell, Charles, Lorenzo, Vincent, Kishan, Akshay and Kush you are a credit to Merryhills School !

Posted on 7.07.11

Merryhills Cricketers visit Lords!!

As part of the Chance to Shine project that has been brought into schools across the borough, Merryhills were invited to take part in a Kwik Cricket tournament, to be played at the ‘home of cricket’ – Lords.

On Friday 10th June 10 of the Year 6 cricket team along with Mrs Richards (SEN Specialist/Chance to Shine coach) and Miss Davies (Year 2 Teacher) travelled to Lords on the tube. There we were met by Beth Morgan, who is part of the ladies England cricket team, and Richard Darwin, Manager of Chance to Shine. We were 1 of 6 schools representing from the North London area.

We were allowed to have a walk around the main ground where we had pictures taken and were allowed to touch the grass in the hope it would bring us good luck!
Our matches were to be played on the nursery ground, we were lucky enough to be able to play 1 whole game.

Unfortunately rain stopped play and we had to make a hasty retreat indoors. All was not lost as we were able to continue with a slightly modified version of kwik in the indoor nets.

When all the scores were calculated Merryhills and Fulham were to play in the finals. Fulham batted 1st and despite a very good team effort we came runners up.

However, we never lost our Merryhills magic, everyone agreed it was a very magical day all-round, after all it’s not everyday you get the chance to shine and play cricket at Lords!!

Well done to our cricket stars Francesca, Kishan, Emily, Lorenzo, Akshay, Cameron, Lilly, Kush, Vincent and Belle and a big thank you to Mrs Richards and Miss Davies.

Posted on 17.06.11

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