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Friday 4 April 2025 Easter Eggshibition 2025 The week before Easter has been jam-packed with PTA events, a highlight of which was the Eggshibition eggstravaganza which has wowed us this week with originality, imagination and creativity. We also have lots of photos on our gallery page.
Friday 4 April 2025 Year 5 Trip To Hampton Court This week we visited Hampton Court Palace. We learnt lots of new facts about Queen Elizabeth 1 and King Henry VIII. We also discovered what valuable goods the Tudors imported from foreign countries and ow much they were worth. Did you know that only royals and courtiers tasted spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves&quest; Potatoes were a new specialty and a rarity! We had a fantastic lunch in the sunshine and played in the Magic Garden. At the end of our trip, we received delicious chocolate Easter bunnies as a reward for finding the hidden golden bunnies. What a fantastic trip!
Wednesday 2 April 2025 Year 2 Trip to Brooklands Museum Year 2 went to Brooklands this week to look at planes and different types of transport for our History topic. We even got to go on some buses that were 60 and 80 years old. We saw a Concord and lots of different planes in the aircraft factory. We all had a fantastic time!
Monday 31 March 2025 Merton Libraries Newsletter Merton Libraries have shared their latest newsletter with us, which tells you all about all the activities that have been organised for the Easter holidays and beyond.
Friday 14 March 2025 Rights Respecting School Council News The winners of our Playground Charter and Whole School Charter have been selected. Thank you to all of the children who submitted their designs to our competition - there were some fantastic entries from across the school. Huge congratulations to Seoyoon in 6B for designing the winning entry for the Playground Charter and to Hayoon in 4E for designing the Whole School Charter. These will be officially launched in the Summer Term.
Monday 10 March 2025 MSSP Y5/6 Netball Borough Championships On 28th February our year 5 and 6 netball team put in a fantastic performance at the MSSP Netball Borough Championships, showing incredible improvement throughout the day. Against touch competition they displayed resilience, teamwork and determination, securing a commendable 9th place finish out of the 16 teams in all of Merton. A special highlight was winning the RefSpect Award, recognising their outstanding sportsmanship and respect on the court - an achievement to be proud of. Well done, team!
Friday 7 March 2025 World Book Day 2025 This week everyone dressed up as their favourite book character for World Book Day. It was a fantastic celebration of reading at Dundonald, when we enjoyed a special parade in assembly and shared photos of children reading in interesting places. There were some very unusual and fun locations!
Friday 14 February 2025 Arts Week Arts Week was so brilliant last week that we wanted to share as much of it as possible with you.
Friday 7 February 2025 Young Voices Worldwide Choir We were delighted to take part in Young Voices Worldwide singalong to celebrate Bob Marley's 80th birthday on Thursday this week. We linked up live to Machester where the main co-ordinating event was held.
Friday 31 January 2025 4C Geography Fieldtrip 4C went on our Geography fieldwork trip around Wimbledon this week. We identified the different types of land use we could see. We took pictures of these. We discussed why there were shops, roads and other modes of transport in particulare areas. We then thought about what features we would add or change if we were Mayor of Wimbledon. Here are some of the future Mayors of Wimbledon and their ideas:
Monday 20 January 2025 TFL Travel for Life Gold Award We are delighted to confirm that we have been awarded the TFL Travel for Life Gold Award for 2024-2025.
Thursday 19 December 2024 Inter-house Art Competition Results We are delighted to announce the results of our Inter-house Art Competition. This year the theme was 'Planet Earth', and we were thrilled to see the incredible talent and creativity displayed by all the students. The artwork was nothing short of amazing, and choosing the winners was no easy task.
Friday 22 November 2024 Girls' Football Success We are thrilled tp announce that our girls' football team has emerged as champions in this year's tournament! The competition was fierce, with teams displaying incredible skill and sportsmanship, but our team stood out with their determination and teamwork.
Friday 22 November 2024 Kindness at Dundonald As part of our ongoing behaviour project at Dundonald this month we have been focusing on Kindness, specifically small acts of kindness, good manners, greetings and holding doors for people. We see lots of example of kindness around the school every day and are encouraging more positive behaviour thorugh discussions with pupils in class and assemblies.
Friday 25 October 2024 Social Morning Following hot on the heels of our last Social Morning on World Mental Health Day we held another social morning on the last day of the half term. Thank you to everyone who attended for a drink and a chat with staff before school started. It was a lovely way to begin the day.
Friday 25 October 2024 Year 5/6 Rugby Tournament On Monday 21st October our Year 5 and 6 rugby teams participated in the MSSP Rugby Tournament, competing against 17 schools across the borough. Our players demonstrated great determination, teamwork and skill throughout the event.
Friday 25 October 2024 Year 5/6 Football Tournament On 18th October our talented Year 5 and year 6 football team took part in the highly anticipated MSSP Borough Football Championships. Competing against 34 schools from across the borough, our teams displayed outstanding skill, teamwork and determination throughout the tournament.
Friday 18 October 2024 Year 5LM Art Project 5LM completed mixed meida portraits in Art this week. We used photographs of ourselves and experimented with a range of materials and techniques to plan ideas for a mixed media self-portrait. We thought about creating an atmosphere, trying different compositions, using more or less of the photo, the effect of colour and communicating something about ourselves.
Thursday 17 October 2024 Year 6 Trip to Shree Ghanapathy Temple The thumbnail has been assigned to the news item, and for convenience also added to the body here:
Thursday 17 October 2024 Rights Respecting School Council Thank you to every child who wrote and submitted their manifesto to be a part of this year's Rights Respecting School Council group. The teachers were so impressed with the quality of the manifestos and the effort that was put into them.
Friday 11 October 2024 MSSP Y4/5/6 Cross Country What an incredible day it was at the MSSP Cross Country Competition. An absolutely remarkable effort for all the children who all completed the race which was over 1.5km long! All the children competed in races with over 75 competitors from various schools across the borough.
Thursday 10 October 2024 Year 6 Cycling Training Some of our Year 6 pupils have been taking part in Level 2 cycling training with specialist instructors this week.
Thursday 10 October 2024 Congratulations Alfie! Alfie in year 4 completed the Marvellous Makers Library Summer Reading Challenge this summer which meant that that he had to read six books and then he was entered into a competition with others who had completed the challenge.
Thursday 18 July 2024 Year 6 Performance Year 6 put on incredible performances this week for their end of year play. They delivered a sterling rendition of Romeo and Juliet and and a parent commented "We were really impressed with all the talented pupils and how much effort they put into this performance. I would like to say thank you for Mr McGavin and and all the staff who worked on this performance."
Friday 21 June 2024 Year 6 Junior Citizenship Event
Friday 7 June 2024 Sports Day 2024 What a week it has been!
Thursday 6 June 2024 Early Years Renovation The Early Years children have had a wonderful return to school this week exploring their brilliant new classrooms! We had an exciting delivery from Early Excellence over the half term break and all of the classrooms spaces have been transformed.
Friday 10 May 2024 Year 1M Science and art combine! Year 1 are learning all about plants in Science and as part of their topic they had a lovely lesson examining the features of plants and recreating them as works of art using a variety of paints and pencils.
Friday 3 May 2024 Greenfingered Year 1 Year 1 demonstrated some green fingers this week! They have all been busy planting in their classroom and hope to be able to try some delicious school grown broad beans in the summer!
Monday 29 April 2024 Year 5 Slippers Before Easter Year 5 created their own wonderful,comfortable and fashionable slippers. We think you will agree that the end results are fantastic!

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