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• Thursday 11 June 2026 TFL Travel for Life awards This week TFL celebrated 18 schools in London with awards recognising schools working to deliver the activity, safety and environment goals of the TFL Travel for Life Programme.
• Monday 18 May 2026 Year 2 Trip to Southsea Beach This term Year 2 have been learning about how people live on the coast. To widen their knowledge and embed their learning, they visited Southsea in May. Luckily it was a sunny day!
• Monday 20 April 2026 Year 2 Trip to Brooklands Year 2's current history topic is Aviation! On Friday they went on a trip to Brooklands Museum to find out more about the history of flight but they saw so much more!
• Thursday 26 March 2026 An Eggsellent Eggshibition! Our annual PTA Easter Eggshibition is keenly awaited every year at this time, and this year's creations were cracking with some eggstraordinary themes!
• Thursday 26 March 2026 Merton Libraries March Newsletter Please click on the link below for the latest events happening over Easter and in April.
• Friday 27 February 2026 Arts Week 2026 Today we celebrated our Arts Week by holding an exhibition for all parents and carers. It was a resounding success thanks to the leadership of Miss Curran and Mrs Frost, the creativity and enthusiasm of all the staff, the financial donations from our parents and carers and the artistic skills of all our children.
• Friday 27 February 2026 Merton Libraries February Newsletter Please see below for all the events happening at Merton Libraries in March.
• Thursday 5 February 2026 Year 6 Geography Desert Speeches This week Year 6LM wrote speeches in groups about the Mojave Desert. They explained all the benefits, uses and positive aspects of the desert.
• Friday 30 January 2026 Merton Libraries January Newsletter The latest newsletter shares news about the Morden Library move, the National Year of Reading, Childrens' Book Clubs, Library Ambassadors and Children's Mental Health Week. There are also ebook recommendations and online resources.
• Friday 19 December 2025 UNICEF Gold Rights Respecting Award reaccreditation We are delighted to announce our reaccreditation of the Gold UNICEF Rights Respecting Award. We are really proud of the staff, children and parents who all contributed to the reaccreditation process. Thank to the whole school community for your support and special mention to Ms Butler who co-ordinated our reaccreditation supported by Ms Boyall.
• Thursday 18 December 2025 Year 6 Come Dine with Me Over the past three weeks, Year 6 have taken part in our very own Come Dine with Me competition. Each team was divided into three sub-teams who were responsible for a course each. The 'hero' ingredients were: parsnips for starters, sweet potatoes for main course and apples for dessert.
• Thursday 18 December 2025 Santa visits Dundonald Primary School We were very lucky to receive a visit from Father Christmas and his Number One Elf this week to deliver Christmas presents to all the classes.
• Friday 12 December 2025 Merton Libraries December Newsletter Please click on the link below to find out about Christmas events at Merton Libraries, opening times over the festive period and December book recommendations.
• Friday 5 December 2025 Catch Up Flu Clinics Please click on the link below for all children's flu clinics this month:
• Thursday 13 November 2025 Year 6 Eagles Class DT Project Year 6's Design and Technology project for this term was to design and make their own waistcoats. Eagles Class have now finished their designs and are proud to share them with you.
• Thursday 13 November 2025 Green Flag Eco Award 2025 We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the Green Flag Eco Award for our commitment to sustainability.
• Thursday 16 October 2025 Year 4 Trip to Kew Gardens Year 4 went to Kew Gardens this week for a Rainforest workshop to consolidate the Geography topic for this term, and they all had an absolute blast! They learned lots about the types of plants in the rainforest and the ways these can be used. We also got to experience the climate of a tropical rainforest whilst exploring the Palm House. We saw banana plants, oil palm plants and so much more!
• Thursday 9 October 2025 MSSP - letter to parents and carers Please see this letter from MSSP regarding their decision to no longer allow spectators at their events.
• Wednesday 8 October 2025 Merton Libraries October Newsletter There is lots happening this month at Merton Libraries. Click on the link below for all Black History Month events, Wimbledon Roack Choir, a Big Jungle installation, Spooky Stories, Autumn puppet making, Magical Quests, Coding Club, Robotics Courses and Learning to Read sessions.
• Thursday 25 September 2025 International Food Tasting Event This week we held our very popular annual International Food Tasting Event where we celebrate the food, traditions and customs of our diverse community.
• Thursday 3 July 2025 Merton Libraries July Newsletter
• Friday 27 June 2025 Lower School Sports Day We were finally able to hold our Lower School Sports Day this week and the weather was perfect for it!
• Friday 6 June 2025 Merton Libraries June Newsletter
• Friday 9 May 2025 V.E Day Letters For V.E. Day in year 6 we looked at some letters from the Imperial War Museum archives from soldiers to their families. We looked at a couple of letters from soldiers to their children and the children in Year 6 wrote replies.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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