Dairy Meadow Primary & Nursery School

Tuesday 10 February 2026 Year 3/4 Girls Football Tournament

Friday 6 February 2026 Young Voices 2026 Wednesday 4th February 2026 was a very special day for the Dairy Meadow school choir, we took part in our second Young Voices competition.

Thursday 5 February 2026 Tech Club 2025/2026 - Spring 2 Please find below information about our ever popular Tech Club. Sessions will take place on Thursday afternoons after school. Booking details are on the flyer.

Tuesday 3 February 2026 Lucy from Fict Fact Books visits Year 1. We had a wonderfully special guest visit Year 1 on Tuesday 3rd February 2026. Lucy Lock from FictFact books came to visit to tell us all about her unique book 'Flingo'.

Tuesday 3 February 2026 Kaurs Club - Safety Seminar Please find below some details about a safety seminar held at Norwood Hall. This session is aimed at the women in our society, entry is free.

Monday 2 February 2026 Oscar from Beavertrust visit Year 3 You might remember that last year our Year 2's visited Paradise Fields in Greenford&quest; They weren't there for the McDonalds or shopping, but to see the rewilding project for a set of beavers. Reintroducing these mammals back in to the wild has been a massive success - they were even featured on David Attenborough's new programme - London.

Monday 2 February 2026 Our New Dairy Meadow Mural Friday 30th January 2026 saw a new addition to the Dairy Meadow family - it's not a pupil or a teacher - but a lovingly spray painted cow on our Merrick Road gates! You can't be a 'Dairy' and not have a cow, right&quest; Let me explain...

Monday 2 February 2026 Year 5 Visit the GTech Community Stadium Wednesday the 28th January 2026 was a truly memorable day for Year 5. We were invited to the home of Premier League Brentford FC, The GTech Community Stadium, to watch the semi final of the Women's Champions Cup between FC Gotham and Corinthians.

Friday 30 January 2026 Coffee Morning With Diane

Monday 26 January 2026 Year 5 - Spoken Word Power. It's really important to be able to find your voice in today's society. Here at Dairy Meadow we are proud to help develop the next generation of: confident, expressive individuals with a love for the spoken word.

Monday 26 January 2026 Architecture Club - The Penultimate One!

Friday 16 January 2026 EYFS - Ealing Help and Support. Please find details below of all the Early Years support available to parents of children in the borough of Ealing in the Spring term.

Friday 16 January 2026 Year 5 - Art of Wellbeing halfway point (nearly). We've been blessed over the last couple of years to have Giles Roberts, our art therapist, in to work with children all across Key Stage 2.

Friday 16 January 2026 Book Donation from the Ihezie Foundation Friday 16th January 2026 was a special day at Dairy Meadow as we received a wonderful donation of 1000 books from the Ihezie Foundation.

Friday 9 January 2026 Year 3 Storytelling Workshop with Jordan Campbell

Friday 19 December 2025 End of term Christmas Concert.

Friday 19 December 2025 Year 1 Post Box Visit

Thursday 18 December 2025 Nursery Christmas Concert

Thursday 18 December 2025 Shade and Shelter with Year 1

Thursday 18 December 2025 Gareth from the Elena Baltacha Foundation Visits Again!

Thursday 18 December 2025 A Special Visitor to KS1

Friday 12 December 2025 Year 6 - Pitzhanger Manor Visit

Friday 12 December 2025 Year 5 - Science Museum Visit Wednesday 10th December 2025 saw our young astronomers of the future blast off to the Science Museum to explore the wonderful world of space.

Friday 5 December 2025 NSPCC Workshops On Tuesday 2nd December 2025 we welcomed Becky and Victoria from the NSPCC to run some workshops with Years 2,5 and 6.

Friday 5 December 2025 Art of Wellbeing - Year 4 - The Finale Ten weeks ago, a band of brave Year 4's met our art and drama therapist, Giles, for the first ever time.

Friday 5 December 2025 Dominion Centre Events Our friends at the Dominion Centre are holding a series of festive events that are free of charge!

Monday 24 November 2025 Free Cricket Coaching Our friends at Middlesex Cricket Club are offering free cricket coaching at Osterley Sports Centre!

Friday 21 November 2025 Cyber Choices 2025/26 On Tuesday 18th November 2025, Years 5 and 6 welcomed PC Lisa Smith to Dairy Meadow so our future computer scientists could understand a little more about being safe online.

Friday 21 November 2025 Architecture Club 25/26 - Session 2.

Friday 21 November 2025 Reading Ambassadors 2025/26. We do love pupil leadership here at Dairy Meadow! I am pleased to announce that Mrs Surai has formed a crack team of reading specialists that are going to be deployed across the school to support some members of the Dairy Meadow family that may struggle to find the time to read out loud.

Tuesday 18 November 2025 Library Visits - Autumn 2025/26 This Autumn term has seen all our children visit Southall Library inside the Dominion Centre.

Tuesday 18 November 2025 Children In Need 2025/2026 Friday 14th November 2025 saw the Dairy Meadow family celebrate Children In Need.

Friday 14 November 2025 Architecture Club 2025/2026 Thursday 13th November saw the return of our hugely popular Architecture Club for Year 6. Considering the volume of building work that surrounds the school, we think it's important to give our children the understanding of what is involved in shaping our local landscape.

Friday 14 November 2025 Anti-Racism Talks with Niharika We all know Southall is a fascinating place to live and work. Did you know that over 80,000 people live here now&quest; I also just found out that King Charles actually used to order his Indian takeaway from the Brilliant!

Friday 14 November 2025 Aviation Careers Morning Considering how close we are to Heathrow Airport at Dairy Meadow, I thought it would be an amazing idea to open our children's eyes to all the potential employment opportunities working at an airport could bring. Alongside our good friend Jude from Primary Futures, Wednesday 12th November saw us hold our first ever aviation careers morning.

Monday 10 November 2025 Exploding Food! A Royal Institute Show Monday 3rd November 2025 was a really exciting day for all the young scientists here at Dairy Meadow. We welcomed Thomas Buckingham, a member of the Royal Institute, to perform an interactive workshop all about Exploding Food!

Friday 24 October 2025 Nursery Traditional Clothes Day We are blessed here at Dairy Meadow to have so many different cultures represented in our classrooms. To celebrate this, our wonderful Nursery decided to have a traditional clothes day. The purpose of this was to recognise the differences and similarities between us all.

Friday 24 October 2025 Year 5 complete the Joy of Movement project. It's not every day that you get to work with a Premier League football team, especially the greatest team that the world has ever seen. However, this is exactly what Year 5 have been doing for the last six weeks.

Friday 24 October 2025 Year 5 Visit Gutterball - Ealing Broadway Despite being 42 years old, there are some school trips that I am seriously jealous of! On Tuesday 22nd October 2025, I had the pleasure of taking Year 5 to the brand new bowling alley in Ealing Broadway called Gutterball!

Friday 24 October 2025 Year 4 Art of Wellbeing - The half way point! You may or may not be aware that every Wednesday afternoon for the last five weeks, some intrepid artists in Year 4 have been harnessing their creative powers to explore their feelings.

Friday 24 October 2025 Year 5 Shang Dynasty Workshop On Thursday 23rd October 2025, Year 5 were transported back in time over 3000 years to explore the Shang Dynasty.

Monday 13 October 2025 Our New School Librarians Napoleon once said, "Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world." With this in mind, we are proud to announce our new school librarians.

Monday 6 October 2025 Jumpsec Cybersecurity Visit For a number of years now we have had the pleasure of welcoming JUMPSEC in to work with our students in Upper Key Stage 2. JUMPSEC are one of the UK's leading cybersecurity specialists and gave up their time to talk to our children about a wide range of issues surrounding being safe online.

Friday 26 September 2025 EYFS Mathematical Excellence It gives me great pleasure to announce that the National Day Nurseries Association have awarded Dairy Meadow a certificate of achievement for the provision of maths in our Nursery and Reception classes.

Friday 26 September 2025 Year 5/6 Football Tournament. Friday 26th September 2025 was a proud day for Dairy Meadow as we entered our first sports tournament of the year - the Year 5/6 boys football tournament.

Friday 26 September 2025 Cedar Class Assembly Friday 26th September 2025 was a magical morning for Dairy Meadow family - Cedar Class entertained a room of parents with an uplifting message about how to achieve your goals!

Friday 26 September 2025 Skills Builder - Crime Scene! Please believe me when I say that Dairy Meadow is an incredibly safe place to work!!! However recently there has been a theft! Some chocolate has gone missing from the staff room! Maybe it was Mr Feldman&quest; Maybe it was a hungry Mr Haines&quest; Maybe it was a stray cat&quest; We had to find out....

Friday 19 September 2025 Middlesex County Cricket Club at Dairy Meadow The weather has managed to hold so it seems like a perfect time to put on some pads and play cricket.

Friday 19 September 2025 Year 5 - Joy of Movement We've been really fortunate to have Coach Ben and Coach Marcus from Brentford FC come in to work with our Year 5 children. The project is called The Joy of Movement, its aim is to show children how to maintain a healthy body through monitoring their: exercise, screen time and diet.

Friday 12 September 2025 Southall Community Alliance - Community Action Day On the 20th September 2025, our friends at the Southall Community Alliance are holding a Community Action Day.

Monday 21 July 2025 Year 1's Big Toddle There was something strange going on in our playground on Friday 18th July 2025 - there seemed to be a large number of animals strolling around being cheered on by their peers! At first I though that Hanwell Zoo had lost some of its creatures, but then I realised that it was the Year 1's Big Toddle!

Monday 21 July 2025 Mythical Madness - Illustration Success! Our wonderful Breakfast Club, run by Mrs Malik and Mrs Choda have taken part in a Young Artists challenge this term.

Monday 21 July 2025 End of Year Performance Concert Sometimes in life you just have to show off, right&quest;! Our end of year performance concert on Thursday 17th July 2025 was pretty much the perfect way to showcase all of our wonderful musical talent here at Dairy Meadow.

Friday 18 July 2025 Southall Summer Events We all know that the Summer holiday can seem like it lasts forever!

Friday 18 July 2025 Reception Fashion Show Wednesday 16th July 2025 was truly a special day at Dairy Meadow.

Friday 18 July 2025 Brentford FC - Joy of Movement Festival Friday 18th July 2025 was a true celebration here at Dairy Meadow.

Friday 18 July 2025 Year 6 PGL On the weekend of Friday 11th July to Sunday 13th July - 30 excitable Year 6's and three exhausted teachers set off to Marchants Hill in Surrey to take part in PGL 2025. The weather was glorious, the roadworks relatively untroubling and the atmosphere electric.

Friday 18 July 2025 Skills Builder - Summer Challenges and Teddy Bears Picnic We've made such great progress in Skills Builder this year. Mrs Uppal and Mr Feldman had a meeting with them and we have achieved our flagship status for another three years!!!

Friday 18 July 2025 Nursery Visit Bocketts Farm On Thursday 17th July 2025, our young zoologist in Nursery visited Bocketts Farm in Leatherhead for a wonderful day of exploring the animal kingdom.

Friday 18 July 2025 Year 2 - Trip to the Wetland Center

Friday 18 July 2025 Tennis Workshops - Years 1,2 and 3. On Tuesday 15th July 2025, we had the pleasure of welcoming Gareth Richman from the Elena Baltacha Foundation to our school. Elena Baltacha was a former British number one tennis player and paved the way for Emma Radacanu, Heather Watson and others.

Friday 18 July 2025 Reading Challenge Celebration Tuesday 15th July 2025 was a magical lunchtime for some of our children.

Friday 11 July 2025 Year 6 Productions! What an amazing pair of nights we had on the 8th and 9th July 2025 - our young actors, actresses, dancers and set designers took to the stage to perform Robin Hood and the Sherwood Hoodies.

Friday 11 July 2025 Key Stage One Sports Day Tuesday the 8th July 2025 saw our young athletes take to the field in the EYFS and KS1 sports days.

Tuesday 8 July 2025 Free Summer Reading! Our friends at First News have announced free reading resources for our young journalists over the Summer holidays, just click here.

Tuesday 8 July 2025 Year 5 Visit the BFI Thursday the 3rd July 2025 was a BAA-rilliant day for Year 5 as they visited the British Film Institute to watch Shaun the Sheep and meet one of the animators who worked on the film!

Friday 27 June 2025 Year 3 attend the Street Elite festival. Thursday 26th June 2025 saw Year 3 attend the Street Elite festival at the Green Quarter. Sponsored by Berkeley Homes, the event introduced our young athletes to lots of sports they may not be familiar with.

Friday 27 June 2025 Dairy Meadow - Ealing Cricket Club Borough Champions It's always nice to bring a trophy back to school, especially if it was earned after four gruelling games against other Ealing schools. On Tuesday 24th June 2025, our cricket team picked up the Ealing Cricket Club tournament trophy at an absolutely roasting Corfton Road.

Tuesday 24 June 2025 Dominion Daydreamers Festival Are you looking for something amazing to do on Saturday 26th July 2025&quest;

Friday 20 June 2025 Fit Futures Tag Rugby Festival Wednesday 18th June 2025 saw Head Coaches Spilsted and Kapoor (alongside waterboy Feldman) to the first ever Fit Futures Tag Rugby Festival at Ealing Trailfinders. Captained by Iva and Sulaiman, the two Dairy Meadow teams were impressive - chalking up wins against Vicars Green and East Acton.

Thursday 19 June 2025 Year 3 Young Engineers Our young engineers in Year 3 created a locomotive as part of their DT unit 'Making it Move' - they were fortunate enough to test them out at a special event with other Ealing schools.

Thursday 19 June 2025 Tamil Speakers Coffee Morning Contact Ealing are running a free coffee morning for Tamil speaking parents/carers at 7 Culmington Street, Bilton House, London W13 9NB at 10.30am on the 23rd June.

Tuesday 17 June 2025 Southall Athletics Tournament

Friday 13 June 2025 Ealing Mental Health Support Team Coffee Morning.

Friday 13 June 2025 Year 1 visit the Wetland Centre The London Wetland Centre is easily one of my favourite places in London. It's beautiful, peaceful and full of amazing wildlife.

Friday 13 June 2025 Library Visits Southall Library, at the Dominion Centre is a treasure trove of exciting things. Not only can you explore the Martinware pottery collection, read books in lots of languages and take part in loads of fun activities - you also get to meet the amazing Sureika!

Monday 9 June 2025 Art of Wellbeing - the halfway point! As keen followers of the website know, some of our Year 6 children have been taking part in a programme called The Art of Wellbeing with our drama expert Giles. The whole purpose of the project is to build on the skills the children already have to make them even more confident and comfortable expressing themselves.

Monday 9 June 2025 Mini Golf at Gunnersbury Park Some people say that golf is a 'good walk spoiled' - I challenge those people to come down to Gunnersbury Park with: Anaiya, Armaan, Zaid, Safiyah, Alyna and Anik and see the skill, accuracy and dedication in play as Dairy Meadow entered their first ever mini golf tournament.

Thursday 22 May 2025 A Visit from Devy Geentilal Tuesday 20th May 2025 was a very special day for our Year 6 cohort. We know SATS has just finished so we thought it would be great for our children to be able to link their assessments with future employment - this is where Devy comes in.

Tuesday 20 May 2025 Year 4 Social Enterprise Morning On the morning of Tuesday 20th May 2025, I had the pleasure of accompanying Ms Formby and 20 Year 4's to visit Alec Reed Academy for a Social Enterprise Morning.

Tuesday 20 May 2025 Year 6 Visit Picture House Ealing On Friday 16th May 2025, Year 6 had a post SATS treat by visiting Picture House Ealing for a private screening of Paddington in Peru.

Friday 16 May 2025 Southall Local History Walks Sometimes when you live in a place, you take it for granted and forget about all the wonderful events that have happened there.

Friday 16 May 2025 Art of Wellbeing Eight lucky Year 6 students have been having the chance to take part in our first ever 'Art of Wellbeing' project alongside our art/drama therapist, Giles. Sponsored by the amazing Chandran Foundation, the project aims to support our pupils as they transition to secondary school.

Friday 16 May 2025 Architecture Club - The Finale! Over the last 10 weeks, 15 of our intrepid Year 6's have channelled their inner John Soames and Zaha Hadid to get a further understanding into the world of architecture.

Wednesday 30 April 2025 Ealing Park Bike Ride Our friends at the borough of Ealing are organising a guided cycle through Ealing's parks.

Wednesday 30 April 2025 Ealing Symphony Orchestra - Free concert. Our friends at the Ealing Symphony Orchestra are running a free concert on Saturday 10th May from 4pm-5pm at St Barnabus Church in Pitshanger Lane, Ealing (on the E2 or E9 bus route, parking is available).

Friday 25 April 2025 Reading Ambassadors meet Konnie Huq.

Friday 4 April 2025 Pupil Leadership - Reading Ambassadors. Dairy Meadow is really proud at the number of pupil leadership positions that exist within the school. We have a wonderful: Pupil Parliament, Eco Committee, Maths Ambassadors and now Reading Ambassadors.

Thursday 3 April 2025 Dairy Meadow at the LSO On Monday 31st March 2025, Dairy Meadow made the short journey to the London Barbican to watch an orchestral performance by the London Symphony Orchestra.

Thursday 3 April 2025 Geologise This! Wednesday 2nd April 2025 was a unique day for our Year 6 students. Our young geologists were entertained, serenaded and educated by the wonderful scientists from Geologise This!

Wednesday 26 March 2025 Dairy Meadow take the Smart Money award 2025. You may have heard of the phrase 'if you look after the pennies, then the pounds look after themselves' right&quest; Unfortunately as we enter a cashless society, it's vitally important that our children know how to keep themselves and their money safe!

Wednesday 26 March 2025 Y3 Visit the Natural History Museum On Monday 24th March 2025, our young palaeontologists in Year 3 set off to the Natural History Museum.

Wednesday 19 March 2025 World Book Day 2025 It has been a wonderful week celebrating all things reading here at Dairy Meadow.

Wednesday 19 March 2025 Book Fair Success! We have had a wonderful Scholastic Book Fair this week at Dairy Meadow.

Wednesday 19 March 2025 Author Talks - Daljit Nagra Our partnership with the amazing local literacy charity, the Sher Jung Foundation, allows me to proudly invite the Dairy Meadow parents to an event on Monday 31st March 2025.

Friday 14 March 2025 Year 6 Architecture Club 16 of our Year 6's have been taking part in an exciting after school club all based around the theme of architecture.

Friday 14 March 2025 The Jolly Postman Visits Reception Wednesday 12th March 2025 was a magical day for our Reception children as they were able to explore the wonderful book, The Jolly Postman, in a live interactive performance.

Thursday 13 March 2025 Scholastic Book Fair 2025 Miss Spilsted would kindly like to invite you all to our Scholastic Book Fair. It will be running in the hall after school from Monday 17th March to Friday 24th March.

Thursday 13 March 2025 British Science Week 2025 - Competition. We have been celebrating British Science Week here at Dairy Meadow!

Tuesday 11 March 2025 Nursery - World Book Day 2025 Our mini authors in Nursery had an action packed day to celebrate World Book Day 2025.

Tuesday 11 March 2025 Free Online Poetry Workshop Our friends from Apples and Snakes, you might remember them from the Plot 19 and Wordcraft events, are running a free online poetry workshop on Sunday 22nd March 2025.

Tuesday 11 March 2025 Visitors from the Maltese Government. We had some very special visitors come to Dairy Meadow on Monday 10th March 2025, all the way from the sunny Mediterranean island of Malta.

Friday 7 March 2025 Elm Class Visit Airlinks Golf On Thursday 6th March 2025, Elm Class visited Airlinks Golf to try a new sport that many of our young Tiger Woods have never been exposed to.

Wednesday 5 March 2025 Nursery Pancake Day Our little chefs in Nursery perfected their measuring and flipping skills this Shrove Tuesday as they made a gastronomic feast of pancakes!

Tuesday 4 March 2025 Let's Go Southall - Community Events Our friends at Let's Go Southall are running a series of community events. All information is below and are accessible to all Dairy Meadow families.

Monday 24 February 2025 Let's Go Southall School Event On Tuesday 25th February 2025, we welcome Let's Go Southall to Dairy Meadow to talk about cycling and the services they offer.

Monday 24 February 2025 Year 6 Visit Pitzhanger Manor On Friday 14th February 2025 it wasn't just love in the air as Year 6 visited the mightily impressive Pitzhanger Manor House and Gallery for a guided tour.

Friday 14 February 2025 Miss Spilsted launches the Reading Ambassadors We are always looking to provide examples for pupil leadership here at Dairy Meadow. After the unbridled success of our Maths Ambassadors, Miss Spilsted had the wonderful idea of launching Reading Ambassadors. This team of amazing Y6's will be supporting younger children in their reading during soft starts. They have been instructed to use Bug Club to access a range of texts to promote reading fluency and stamina.

Friday 14 February 2025 Young Voices 2025 What an amazing day/night it was on Monday 10th February 2025 as 30 of the amazing Dairy Meadow choir attended Wembley Arena for the Young Voices festival.

Wednesday 12 February 2025 PGL 2024/2025 - Parents Morning Please find below the slides from the PGL Parents Morning from Wednesday 12th February 2025.

Friday 7 February 2025 Recruiting the Best. On Wednesday 5th February 2025, I had the pleasure of visiting Roehampton University for their ECT recruitment event.

Monday 3 February 2025 A Visit from Leah Chowdhry It's not every day that you get to meet a real life 'wonder woman' is it? This is what happened to the Dairy Meadow family on Friday 31st January 2025 as we welcomed Leah Chowdhry to our school.

Monday 3 February 2025 Pupil Parliament Discuss Visitors! On Friday 31st January 2025, Mr F and his band of Dairy Meadow democrats met to discuss the enrichment opportunities that the school provides. We will look at trips just before half term, today was all about the impact that people coming in to school have on our children's learning.

Thursday 30 January 2025 Dairy Meadow Visit Ealing Trailfinders It was a wonderful day out for the Dairy Meadow community on the 25th January 2025 as Mr F, Mrs Uppal and Miss Nessa gave up their Saturday to cheer on the best women's rugby team in the UK, Ealing Trailfinders.

Thursday 30 January 2025 Chinese New Year in Nursery Gong Xi Fa Cai to all that celebrated Chinese New Year!

Monday 27 January 2025 Homework Helper at Dominion Library Are you struggling with your homework? If you need a little bit of extra help you can always talk to your teacher, but did you know that you could pop to your local library?

Friday 24 January 2025 Met Police Webinar on Child Criminal Exploitation. If you wish to join the free webinar on child criminal exploitation and grooming - please follow this link on the 12th February. https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d54c28bf-c4ff-4edb-b8eb-3406e5bb4ebe@f3ee2a7e-7235-4d28-ab42-617c4c17f0c1. Full details below.

Wednesday 22 January 2025 Maths Newsletters See below for a newsletter from Mrs Benson, all about what's going on in the wonderful world of maths at Dairy Meadow.

Tuesday 21 January 2025 Skills Builder Home Learning Please see a letter below from Mrs Uppal about Skills Builder.

Monday 20 January 2025 Speech and Language Workshops for Parents Ealing Speech and Language Therapy have launched a series of free workshop for parents that can be accessed over Zoom.

Monday 20 January 2025 Pupil Parliament Discuss Lunches! On Friday 17th January 2025, the Dairy Meadow democracy say a meeting of the Pupil Parliament to discuss lunches and the children's experience at lunchtimes. I was really impressed with how seriously and deeply our children care about the food and the atmosphere in the lunch hall.

Wednesday 15 January 2025 Free Rugby Tickets - 25th January 2025 Following on from our whole school assembly last week, Ealing Trailfinders have invited all Dairy Meadow pupils to attend Vallis Way to see the men's and women's team play for free.

Wednesday 15 January 2025 Year 5 Old Vic Performance! The famous actor (and star of my favourite film, The Hustler) Paul Newman once said: "To be an actor, you first have to be a child." I'm not overly sure what that means, but what I do know is that the children in Year 5 have proved themselves to be amazing actors and actresses.

Wednesday 15 January 2025 Choir Visit Martin House Thursday 19th December 2024 was a magical day in the Dairy Meadow calendar as our choir visited the Martin House care home to spread some festive cheer to the residents.

Wednesday 15 January 2025 Ealing Trailfinders Working With Year 5 I'm proud to announce that Dairy Meadow have started working with our local rugby union club, Ealing Trailfinders.

Wednesday 15 January 2025 Manisha From HSBC Visits On Tuesday 14th January 2025, we welcomed Manisha from HSBC to come to talk to our children as part of our financial education programme.

Friday 10 January 2025 Ealing Parenting Service - Upcoming Workshops Spring 2025 Ealing Parenting Service have announced some new workshops for the Spring Term. All the workshops are free to attend and are conducted online.

Thursday 9 January 2025 NHS - Coffee Morning Please look below to find more information about an NHS coffee morning being held here at Dairy Meadow on Thursday 16th January 2025 between 9 and 10am.

Tuesday 7 January 2025 Buttercup Update Please find below a letter from Mrs Reed about Buttercup Class.

Friday 20 December 2024 Mad About Science - Newsletter Miss Steadman has kindly collected information and images from all the amazing Science work that has been happening around Dairy Meadow.

Friday 20 December 2024 A Special Visitor to Nursery They say pictures are worth a 1000 words.

Friday 20 December 2024 NHS - Pharmacy First

Wednesday 4 December 2024 Maths Ambassadors 2024/2025 Here at Dairy Meadow we are proud in letting children take the lead in their learning! As Seneca said, "As we teach, we learn".

Friday 29 November 2024 A celebration of all things 'Anaya' We had a very special assembly on the morning of Thursday 28th November 2024. Miss Stribling from Featherstone High School came to announce the winner of a competition they had at the Year 7 open day.

Wednesday 27 November 2024 A Visit from Gita Ralleigh Friday 22nd November 2024 was a very special day for the Dairy Meadow family. We welcomed the published author, Gita Ralleigh, to our school to talk about her experiences in becoming an author.

Wednesday 27 November 2024 Year 3/4 Athletics Tournament On Friday 22nd November 2024, our Year 3/4 track and field stars took part in an athletics tournament at Featherstone High School.

Tuesday 19 November 2024 Tech Club - Spring Term 2025 Our ever popular tech club is back in the Spring Term of 2025.

Friday 15 November 2024 Maths Displays At Dairy Meadow, we like to remind our children that they are young mathematicians at every opportunity we get!

Friday 15 November 2024 BBC500 Words Competition Who says that the best things do not come in small packages?

Thursday 7 November 2024 'I Love Southall' Mela and Film If you pay special attention to our website! (I'm sure you all do!) you'll know that we like to promote all the wonderful community events that happen in Southall.

Thursday 7 November 2024 Cats Protection League visit. On Monday 4th November 2024 the whole school had a visit from Jonathan, Jenny and Jerry from the Cats Protection League. Our furry friends give us so much love and joy so it's important we know how to look after them.

Tuesday 5 November 2024 Dairy Meadow support Ealing Foodbank We would just like to thank all members of the Dairy Meadow community who donated non-perishable produce for Ealing Foodbank. It was beautiful to see so many members of the school support those who might be struggling in these difficult times.

Tuesday 5 November 2024 World Diabetes Day 2024 Our friends at the Southall Community Alliance would like to make you aware of an event that is happening on Thursday 14th November 2024 - World Diabetes Day.

Tuesday 5 November 2024 Recycling Superstars A massive 'thank you' is needed for all members of the Dairy Meadow community who donated clothes to be recycled.

Friday 25 October 2024 Year 3 - We Can Cook! Tuesday 22nd October 2024 saw our young Gordon Ramsay's and Nadiyah Hussain's get a visit from Jane and Sharon from School Food Matters. They had the opportunity to take part in a an amazing workshop that saw them make some rainbow rolls!

Friday 25 October 2024 Eastside - Celebrating Diversity Workshop

Friday 25 October 2024 Year 5 - Old Vic Project Our young actors and actresses in Year 5 have been working hard to understand what it takes to put on, and act in, a West End play.

Friday 25 October 2024 Year 5 - Shang Dynasty Workshop Last week, Year 5 had a visit from Jacob to reactivate and embed their knowledge about the Shang Dynasty.

Thursday 10 October 2024 Dairy Meadow and Holland House The thumbnail has been assigned to the news item, and for convenience also added to the body here:

Thursday 10 October 2024 Fire Safety Talks from Kaival On Friday 4th October 2024, Dairy Meadow welcomed Kaival Singh from the London Fire Brigade to talk about fire safety. This was especially important after the huge fire near Western Road earlier on this week!

Thursday 10 October 2024 Important Information for Reception Parents Recently, our wonderful EYFS team have been running a series of workshops.

Wednesday 2 October 2024 Featherstone Readers! We're so lucky here in the Dairy Meadow family to have some new members. Our Year 11 friends at Featherstone High School are spending some time on a Tuesday afternoon to run reading interventions with some of our children!

Wednesday 25 September 2024 The CO2 crew visit Dairy Meadow Tuesday 24th September 2024 saw Dairy Meadow have a visit from Emily Evans from Bonanza Creative. Emily was here to share a whole school assembly and conduct some workshops all about the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Wednesday 25 September 2024 Jumpsec visit UKS2 Friday 20th September 2024 saw our friends from Jumpsec return to talk to the children about how to be safe online. Lucy, Matt, Chris and Lili spoke to our young computer scientists about the roles that they play in cybersecurity, as well as how they got their careers.

Friday 13 September 2024 PC McGuigan and PC Pidding talk about drugs to Y6. At Dairy Meadow we take the safeguarding of our children incredibly seriously. As a result, we think it's vital for our junior citizens to understand the dangers and the pitfalls of growing up.

Friday 13 September 2024 Year 6 - Sky Studios Thursday 12th September 2024 was an awesome day for Elm Class as they visited Sky Studios in Isleworth. Everyone knows about some of the great television Sky produces (Sky Sports News is my particular favourite) and the cutting edge technology that is associated with the company (Sky Glass).

Thursday 12 September 2024 Year 4 Visit the Green Quarter Wednesday 11th September 2024 saw our Year 4 zoologists and conservationists attend a nature afternoon at the Green Quarter in Southall.

Wednesday 11 September 2024 Southall Wellbeing Way - Community Event Our friends at Let's Go Southall are holding a community event on Saturday 14th September between 11.30am and 4.00pm.

Monday 9 September 2024 Cyber Choices - Year 5 and 6 workshop On Friday 6th September 2024, Years 5 and 6 welcomed PC Virdi from the Met Police cybercrime department to present a workshop about illegal online activity.

Monday 9 September 2024 Southall Street Mela - Saturday 28th September 2024 Our friends at the Southall Community Alliance, in conjunction with Ealing Council and the London Mayor's Office, are throwing a Mela in Southall.

Monday 9 September 2024 Skills Builder Challenge Day - Crash Landing There was an eerie vibe travelling around Dairy Meadow on Friday 6th September 2024. Our young engineers and astrophysicists had to use all their Skills Builder knowledge to investigate a crashed spaceship! Fortunately our wonderfully kind children didn't feel the need to send Mr Feldman back to his home planet!

Friday 6 September 2024 Applying for High Schools 2024/2025 I know we have only just returned for the new academic year but i'm afraid our Year 6's need to think about applying for high school!

Friday 6 September 2024 Community Sports Day - 21st September 2024 Our friends at the Southall Community Alliance have announced a Community Sports Day on Saturday 21st September 2024 at Spikes Bridge Park from 12pm-4.30pm.

Monday 22 July 2024 First News Summer Reading Challenge

Monday 22 July 2024 Family School Partnership Award Celebration! Dairy Meadow Primary School took a whole school approach to empowering all staff: to feel confident to deliver parent workshops, feel more confident interacting with parents and carers and to create a friendly environment for parents to establish strong working relationships with staff.

Monday 22 July 2024 Things to Do in the Holidays! Our friends at the Southall Community Alliance have passed on some details of summer arts and cultural events being held in Southall. Most of the activities will take place at Southall Town Hall and/or Southall Park and will involve colleagues from Gunnersbury Park Museum.

Thursday 18 July 2024 A big 'THANK YOU' to the Chandran Foundation. You may have read our news article a couple of weeks ago where our Year 5's graduated from the online tuition programme provided by the Chandran Foundation? Well, we have some great news....

Thursday 18 July 2024 HSBC Visit Dairy Meadow Wednesday 17th July 2024 was a very special day in the Dairy Meadow calendar. We welcomed in Manisha Meghani from HSBC (which stands for the Hong Kong Shanghai Building Corporation, well done Mrs V!) for what we thought would just be a normal assembly HOWEVER it turned out to be an award assembly!

Tuesday 16 July 2024 Year 2 Cut, Stitch and Join As part of their DT unit 'Cut, Stitch and Join', our textile experts Year 2 created their own luggage tags using: felt, cotton and string.

Monday 15 July 2024 U Teach Mi - Summer Coding and Tech Club Our friends at U Teach Mi are running a free Summer coding and tech club for the children who receive Free School Meals (FSM). There's a range of amazing activities to take part in, all of which will be held here at Dairy Meadow.

Monday 15 July 2024 Year 5 Space Adventure Programme On Friday 12th July, 11 intrepid future astronauts and aeronautic engineers from Year 5 were invited by St Paul's Girls School to take part in their Space Adventure Programme.

Thursday 11 July 2024 Ealing Libraries - Summer Reading Challenges If you are at a loose end this weekend or you are wondering how to spend those long Summer days, remember that your local library has all sorts of wonderful stuff going on!

Thursday 11 July 2024 U Teach Mi - Autumn Coding Club Our friends at U Teach Mi are running a free coding camp for our children who receive Free School Meals (FSM) here at Dairy Meadow. They are also launching a discount rate for the ever popular Coding Club for the start of the Autumn term. To book, please look at the flyers below and scan the QR codes.

Thursday 11 July 2024 World of Work - Elm Visit Holland House It's going to happen to all of our wonderful little people here at Dairy Meadow. The remorseless march of time will catch up with them and they'll have to enter the big wide world to get paid employment.

Thursday 11 July 2024 KS2 Sports Day Our annual KS2 Sports Day was held on the field on July 11th 2024, it was a resounding success. The event saw enthusiastic participation from all students in Years 3-6.

Thursday 11 July 2024 EYFS and KS1 Sports Day Despite the threat of rain, thunder and lightning - our intrepid athletes took to the field to take part in a morning of activity, fun and competition.

Thursday 11 July 2024 Chandran Foundation Graduation There was a celebratory mood at Dairy Meadow on Friday 4th July 2024 as our Year 5 children 'graduated' from their ten week online tuition programme.

Thursday 11 July 2024 Reception Visit Battersea Zoo We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo....how about you? you? you?

Thursday 11 July 2024 Fabulous Fashion in Reception Get your cameras and flashbulbs at the ready! Reception are putting on a fashion show as part of their Skills Builder project. Obviously to do this first, they have to meet some inspirational individuals from the world of fashion.

Monday 24 June 2024 Our Creative Festival What a morning it was on Monday 24th June 2024 - Taylor Swift may have been the hottest ticket in London but believe me - all the glamour was at the Dairy Meadow Artists in Residence Creative Festival!!!

Friday 21 June 2024 Street Elite Sports at TGQ At Dairy Meadow we love to give our children new experiences as often as possible. What better way to find the new Tyson Fury's and Marlie Packer's of this world that giving our young athletes the chance to try out new sports?

Friday 21 June 2024 Year 6 PGL! It's been nearly a week now since Year 6 spent a glorious 48 hours at PGL Marchants Hill; I think Mr Feldman, Miss Spilsted and Mrs Benson have just about recovered!

Wednesday 19 June 2024 Free Online Parenting Workshops The Ealing Parenting Team are running free online workshops during the months of June and July. The topics of these include:

Wednesday 19 June 2024 Brunel University Visit Year 6 On the morning of Wednesday 19th June 2024, Year 6 were lucky enough to welcome Emily Healy to the school. Emily is part of the wider engagement team at Brunel University and came to speak about university life.

Wednesday 19 June 2024 Year 6 DJ's! Friday 14th June 2024 saw the half of our Year 6 cohort who were not on PGL take advantage of a unique opportunity to launch their careers into musical megastardom!

Thursday 13 June 2024 Free Online Safety Workshop Please see below for information about an online safety workshop held by the Ealing SAFE team (Supportive Action For Families in Ealing).

Thursday 13 June 2024 Looking After Your Child's Eyes Please read the information below from the Ealing Community Healthcare NHS Trust about how to look after your child's vision.

Thursday 13 June 2024 Coffee Morning with Diane There will be a coffee morning with Diane, our school counsellor, on Tuesday 25th 2024 at 9am.

Monday 10 June 2024 Year 6 - Airport Bowl There was no danger of Year 6 going on STRIKE on Friday 7th July 2024, or there being a SPARE seat on the bus. As a reward for being such amazing learners throughout the year, we went on an action packed day out to Airport Bowl in Heathrow.

Monday 3 June 2024 Online Aviation Careers Event On Friday 24th May 2024, Year 6 buckled up their seatbelts, looked for their nearest emergency exits and jetted off on a journey to learn all about jobs in the aviation industy.

Wednesday 22 May 2024 SALT and OT Parent Workshop - Year 6 Transition Ealing's Speech and Language Team (SALT) and their Occupational Therapy Team (OT) are running an online parents workshop to aid Year 6 children with transition to High School.

Monday 20 May 2024 Year 6 Quiz! Friday 17th May 2024 was a first for Dairy Meadow, not only did our amazing Year 6's manage to relax after a gruelling SATS week but we had our first ever Dairy Meadow Quiz.

Monday 20 May 2024 Science Themed Library Sessions As Science Lead, Miss Spilsted has been thinking of amazing new ways to make sure our young scientists can improve their skills of enquiry at every opportunity. Her latest initiative is an amazing Science Research Station.

Monday 20 May 2024 ALFIE - The Healthy Family Programme If you are looking for new and fun ways to keep your family healthy, the ALFIE programme may be just the thing you need.

Friday 10 May 2024 Science Competition Winners - May 2024 If you can cast your minds back to earlier on this term, you may remember all the wonderful activities the Dairy Meadow family took part in as it was British Science Week. There were online workshops, careers talks, experiments with St Paul's Girls School to name just a few. Do you remember that Miss Spilsted and Miss Steadman also set an amazing writing competition set around the topic of 'Time'?

Wednesday 8 May 2024 Chandran Foundation Tuition Begins. Tuesday 7th May 2024 our intrepid Year 5 warriors started their online after school English tuition in collaboration with the Chandran Foundation. The aim of the project is to support the learning of English in Maths in Year 5 by linking our young learners with university graduates who have a passion for inspiring the next generation.

Wednesday 8 May 2024 Wordcraft Launch Assembly! We have so many awesome things happening in the Dairy Meadow family at the moment that it takes something truly special to make everyone's jaws drop! However, that is exactly what happened on Thursday 2nd May 2024 when we had a star studded Poetry Spin to commence our Wordcraft Project.

Tuesday 7 May 2024 Carbon Monoxide Safety Workshops

Friday 3 May 2024 Year 6 Glider Workshop On Tuesday 30th April 2024, our young aerospace engineers in Year 6 took part in a workshop all based around the physics of flight.

Tuesday 30 April 2024 Artists In Residence Kicks Off! Key Stage 2 were really excited on Monday 29th April 2024 as we welcomed in our artist in residence, the animator Sophie Burrows!

Wednesday 24 April 2024 Year 6 Visit 'Southall Resists' Exhibition On Tuesday 23rd April 2024, Year 6 had the pleasure and the privilege of attending an art exhibition at Villiers High School. The event was entitled 'Southall Resists' and was an artistic representation of how Southall and its community has resisted the challenges of racism and discrimination in the 1970's and 1980's.

Monday 22 April 2024 Sharvi Takes the Gold! Did you know that the Dairy Meadow family has a medal winning athlete in its ranks? On Saturday 20th April 2024, Sharvi from Ash Class took part in the London Mini Marathon that was held in St James' Park.

Monday 22 April 2024 Ealing Book Festival Success! Sunday 14th April 2024 was a monumental day for some of our young poets here at Dairy Meadow. They took part in a competition organised by Miss Spilsted to write a poem based around the theme of 'Where I live...'. Now, this was no normal competition, the children's efforts were entered into the Ealing Book Festival and I'm pleased to say we had 4 commendations!

Thursday 18 April 2024 Ealing Parenting Service - Upcoming Workshops Summer 2023/24 Ealing Parenting Service are holding some online workshops in January and February. They are all free to attend and you can enrol by emailing parentingserviceadmin@ealing.gov.uk with your name and contact details.

Thursday 18 April 2024 Reading at Southall Library If you're a member of the Dairy Meadow family who are struggling to find time to hear your little one read, Southall Library can help. They have a reading volunteer coming in every Thursday from 4.30pm-5.00pm to listen to children read.

Monday 15 April 2024 Tech Club - Summer Term I'm pleased to announce that our ever popular Tech Club resumes on Thursday April 25th 2024 for 12 weeks. The club is available for Years 2-6 and will introduce the children to the world of: coding, music production, video editing, 3D modelling and much much more.

Wednesday 27 March 2024 A Gift From our Friends at Pushkin Press World Book Week may seem a long time ago now yet the experiences still live long in our children's memory. The aim of the week, so expertly curated by Miss Spilsted, was to promote a love of reading amongst the Dairy Meadow family - I'm sure you'll agree, it was a complete success.

Friday 22 March 2024 Science Competition Winners! As part of our British Science Week celebrations, Miss Spilsted and Miss Steadman have organised an amazing Science competition all to do with the concept of 'time'.

Friday 22 March 2024 Beach Hut Architects in Year 2 Dust off your set squares, blueprints and hard hats! Our young architects in Year 2 have been planning, designing and building their own beach huts!

Thursday 21 March 2024 A Visit from Network Rail On Wednesday 20th March 2024, as part of our British Science Week celebrations, Years 5+6 honed their knowledge of engineering and infrastructure by having a visit from Network Rail's Kim Carter.

Tuesday 19 March 2024 TFL Gold Award

Friday 15 March 2024 Ealing Book Festival As part of our World Book Day celebrations, children at Dairy Meadow were encouraged to enter poems as part of the Ealing Book Festival. Miss Spilsted was inundated with loads of wonderful pieces of work.

Tuesday 12 March 2024 Scholastic Book Fair - 19th-22nd March. Any birthday's coming up? Looking for a treat for a loved one in your life? How about a wonderful, shiny, brand new book?

Tuesday 12 March 2024 U Teach Mi - Easter Holiday Camps The wonderful Mr Hines and his tech education company, U Teach Mi, are running an Easter Holiday camp at St Raphael's Primary School in Northolt. It starts on the 2nd April through to the 5th April from 8.30am-3.00pm, it is free for our Free School Meals students.

Friday 8 March 2024 British Science Week British Science Week is upon us and Miss Spilsted has organised some wonderful events all around the scientific concept of 'Time'.

Friday 8 March 2024 World Book Day/Week Celebrations Wow! What a week it has been at Dairy Meadow! We have successfully managed to celebrate everything there is about books! Miss Spilsted has managed to co-ordinate some fantastic opportunities for our children to explore all aspects of the written word.

Friday 8 March 2024 Coffee Morning with Diane Every member of the Dairy Meadow family has worries or struggles at some point in their lives, we're here to help! As a school, we have our own school counsellor - Diane. She's just recently joined and will build on all the great work of her predecessor, Nora.

Friday 8 March 2024 Year 3 Science Show

Tuesday 5 March 2024 World Book Day Themed Lunch For our World Book Day celebrations, our wonderful kitchen team have come up with a menu full of wonder and surprise. Can you work out which books some of the dishes have come from?

Friday 1 March 2024 Free Local Health Consultations If you're concerned about areas of your health but are struggling to get an appointment with your doctor - please find some information below that may be of use.

Friday 1 March 2024 Free Online Magazine - Family First You can access Family First on your internet enabled device by clicking on the hyperlink below.

Thursday 29 February 2024 Dominion Centre Activities Did you know the Dominion Centre in Southall runs all manner of amazing activities after school? If you fancy trying your hands at chess, art or even MMA, go down and have a look.

Tuesday 27 February 2024 Parent Governor Applications

Wednesday 21 February 2024 Bowling Tournament Please find below a report from Coach Perry regarding a recent bowling tournament organised by the Featherstone Sports Partnership.

Monday 19 February 2024 Heart Health Seminar I am pleased to share details of a heart health seminar arranged by West London Asian Society in association with Heartlink Ealing Hospital Heart Support Group Charity on Thursday 14th March from 12.30 – 2.30 pm.

Monday 19 February 2024 Free Adult Education Classes in Ealing, Hounslow and Harrow The Adult and Community Development Academy (ACDA) are offering free training sessions for adults in Digital Skills (Basic IT) and Basic English (ESOL) across the boroughs of Ealing, Hounslow and Harrow.

Monday 19 February 2024 Science Logo Competition Our young scientists here at Dairy Meadow were recently set a challenge by Miss Spilsted and Miss Steadman.

Friday 9 February 2024 Kids Eat Free Over Half Term If you are looking for places to eat over the half term with your children, but don't want to break the bank - check out some of the places below.

Thursday 8 February 2024 Mozartists visit Dairy Meadow In a quest to give our children the best possible musical education, the phenomenal Mozartists visited years 3 and 4 to open their minds to classical music and learn more about the life of the great Austrian composer (just in time as the ENO are putting on the Magic Flute!).

Thursday 8 February 2024 A Visit from the RNLI Wednesday the 7th February 2024 saw a very special visitor navigate some choppy waters to visit Dairy Meadow - Jan Harris from the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboats Institute) - the charity that saves lives at sea.

Tuesday 6 February 2024 Monster Kat Theatre visit Year 4 Monster Kat Theatre are a local group that run workshops based around the themes of kindness and tolerance.

Monday 5 February 2024 Ealing Foodbank -May Shopping List Below is a shopping list for the Ealing Foodbank, they are grateful for any donations that can be used for families in need. For further information about Ealing Foodbank or details on how to get support, please visit:

Wednesday 31 January 2024 Spring 2 Tech Club

Tuesday 30 January 2024 Park and Stride Success! Please see below for a report from Mrs Sahota about our phenomenal Park and Stride events that happened on Friday 26th January 2024 in conjunction with Havelock Primary School.

Monday 29 January 2024 Measles Cases On the Rise. Please read the letter below about a concerning rise in measles cases within the borough of Ealing.

Wednesday 24 January 2024 Chinese New Year Lunch Please see below for some details about the Chinese New Year themed lunch that is taking part on Friday 9th February 2024.

Wednesday 24 January 2024 Park and Stride Preparation In our quest to make Dairy Meadow a more greener school, Mrs Sahota has been working incredibly hard on an initiative to improve the air quality around our area.

Monday 22 January 2024 Sky Arts Competition Calling all young artists here at Dairy Meadow! Miss Geddes is launching an art competition alongside the TV channel, Sky Arts. By taking part you could get your artwork featured on the television!

Friday 19 January 2024 Formula 1 in Schools Competition Winners At Dairy Meadow we are fortunate to have an amazing link with St Paul's Girls School in Hammersmith. Under the tutelage of Mr McInnes, we worked alongside them to enter a competition all based around Formula 1. Our young mechanics and designers had to engineer their own race car which was judged by Year 11 students. I'm pleased to say we have some winners!

Friday 19 January 2024 Reading in Reception Classes We all know how important it is to read. It's even more fun when you have an audience to read to! I know I love putting on accents and acting out the text that's in front of me.

Wednesday 17 January 2024 Maths Ambassadors One of the many great things about Dairy Meadow is that everyone knows who to go to if we need a little bit of help. We have our worry boxes, our Space slips, our School Council and Eco Committee, but what about if you're struggling with your Maths? Here's where our Maths Ambassadors come in.

Friday 12 January 2024 Year 4 Canal Trip Even on a blisteringly cold winter day, the learning at Dairy Meadow does not stop. Our brave potomologists (my new favourite word), went out to investigate the local waterways.The purpose of the visit to the Grand Union Canal was to kick start the geography unit (Misty Mountain, Winding River).

Tuesday 9 January 2024 Friday 26th January - Park and Stride In a bid to get us all moving, as well as contributing to a greener Southall, the Dairy Meadow School Council and Eco Committee are asking all motorists to park their cars further out and stroll into school on Friday 26th January 2024 (and hopefully beyond).

Thursday 21 December 2023 Reception Nativity There are a lot of amazing stories that we learn about through our primary school career. I can't think of one more special than the Christmas nativity, especially when it has been performed so beautifully by our Reception classes.

Thursday 21 December 2023 Year 6 - Food For Life. Please find below some information from Miss Spilsted about how Year 6 channelled their inner Jamie Oliver's and Nadiya Hussain's during their DT week.

Thursday 21 December 2023 Year 1 Visit the Post Box As part of their 'Special Delivery' project in this term's Skills Builder, Miss Attia and Miss Joshi took their young writers down to the local post box.

Thursday 21 December 2023 Our Winter Disco! Wow! What an afternoon we had on Wednesday 20th December 2023 as our first ever Winter Disco was a roaring success.

Wednesday 20 December 2023 Online Parenting Workshops - January 2024 Contact Ealing - For Families With Disabled Children are running a series of online workshops that are free to attend in January 2024.

Tuesday 19 December 2023 A Visit from Nathan Walters Monday 18th December 2023 saw a visit from the Headmaster of Featherstone High School, Mr Nathan Waters. He was our special guest for our end of term attendance and praise assembly, plus he had a unique treat for one of our Year 6 students.

Monday 18 December 2023 A visit from Councillor Peter Mason We had a very special visitor last week to announce something very Christmassy. No! it wasn't Santa Claus!

Friday 15 December 2023 Dairy Meadow Choir Entertain Martin House Friday 15th December 2023 saw our choir perform for the residents of Martin House, a care home just round the corner on Swift Road.

Wednesday 13 December 2023 Years 5 and 6 Athletics Tournament! Please find below a report from Coach Perry about the Years 3+4 athletics tournament that our young athletes recently took part in.

Monday 11 December 2023 Year 4 Canal Trip - Wednesday 10th January 2024 Please find below some information from Miss Steadman and Mrs Fornby about a Year 4 trip to the Grand Union Canal on Wednesday 10th January 2024. This is the first week back for the children after the Christmas break.

Monday 11 December 2023 Christmas Jumper Day - Thursday 21st December 2023 Please find below some information from Miss Steadman regarding Christmas Jumper Day 2023. We will be raising money for Save the Children of the last day of term, Thursday 21st December.

Wednesday 6 December 2023 Heartlink Visit Year 6 It's an undoubtable fact that the London Borough of Ealing is full of beautiful, kind-hearted individuals. We were fortunate enough today to be visited by four such people. Lolin, Bernard, Mohinder and Bachitar are all locals who give up their time to work for the charity Heartlink - they spent a wonderful Wednesday afternoon working with Year 6 to supplement their work on the circulatory system.

Wednesday 6 December 2023 Featherstone Readers Going From Strength to Strength Dairy Meadow is so proud to be central to such a beautiful, strong community as Southall is. We pride ourselves on working in partnership with as many local schools, individuals and businesses as possible.

Wednesday 6 December 2023 Year 3 History Workshop - Portals to the Past On Tuesday 5th December 2023, Year 3 went back in time - a very long way! Mrs Ali organised an awesome workshop - this is what she had to say about it:

Tuesday 5 December 2023 Year 4 - SkillsBuilder Book Sale As part of their Skills Builder project for the Autumn term, Year 4 have been designing books to sell to their friends.

Tuesday 5 December 2023 Our Winter Disco - 20th December 2023 Dust off your dancing shoes and get dressed in your best party clothes - Dairy Meadow is having a Winter Disco!

Monday 4 December 2023 Spring Tech Club I'm pleased to announce that our ever popular Tech Club with Mr Hines will be running again in the Spring Term.

Monday 4 December 2023 2023 2024 - Hot Chocolate Friday - Science It was the last Friday before December, it could only mean one thing (no, finding the Advent calendar), Hot Chocolate Friday met to discuss our Science curriculum.

Friday 1 December 2023 Year 2 Cooking Workshop Calling all budding Jamie Oliver's and Nadiya Hussain's - there was a wonderful smell coming from the Year 2 classrooms on Wednesday 29th November 2023.

Thursday 30 November 2023 Christmas Activities - Messy Church If your children are looking for some fun activities to complete over the Christmas holidays, Messy Church is open to all members of the Dairy Meadow family.

Tuesday 28 November 2023 Nasal Flu Vaccine - Keeping your children safe We were pleased to welcome the local NHS immunisation team to Dairy Meadow earlier this term.

Tuesday 28 November 2023 Christmas Lunch Menu Please find attached below the Christmas Lunch Menu for Tuesday 19th December 2023.

Tuesday 28 November 2023 Our OFSTED report is published! It's with great pride that we can finally announce the results of our latest OFSTED report after the inspection on the 11th and 12th October 2023 by Edison David.

Monday 27 November 2023 Hot Chocolate Friday - Reading I know this is the update you've been waiting for! Friday 24th November 2023 saw another fantastic discussion of an area of our curriculum over hot drinks and custard creams - this session saw us delve deeper into the reading curriculum at Dairy Meadow.

Monday 27 November 2023 Hope For Southall Street Homelessness At Dairy Meadow we are so proud of how our children become model citizens - maybe we should add another E to our 'Enjoy, Educate, Embrace, Empower' in the form of 'Empathy'? For proof of this we need to look no further than Mrs Uppal's latest Skills Builder project.

Monday 27 November 2023 PC McGuigan Visits the Nursery Our wonderful Nursery children love learning about the people who keep them safe. Who knows, maybe Mrs Cheung, Mrs Vohra and Mrs Dhanjal are raising the crime fighters of tomorrow?

Friday 24 November 2023 Year 6 Police Safety Talk "Dairy Meadow, do you read me? Over?" - Friday 24th November 2023 saw all our law abiding citizens in Year 6 meet a real life police officer to discuss how to be responsible citizens and learn a little bit more about what a job in law enforcement is like.

Friday 24 November 2023 2023-2024 Project Jupiter Starts! We all know all the children at Dairy Meadow are 'out of this world'. Thursday 23rd November 2023 gave the chance for Year 5 to start reaching for the musical stars as Project Jupiter returned.

Wednesday 22 November 2023 Dogs Trust Workshops There's been a lot in the news recently about dangerous dogs. Whilst we appreciate at Dairy Meadow that there are some canines out there that can pose a threat, the majority of our four legged friends are friendly creatures that deserve our respect. In our quest to keep our children safe at all opportunities, we invited the charity Dogs Trust (and their paw-fect education advisor Karen Hutt) in.

Wednesday 22 November 2023 25.11.23 - Open Havelock Are you stuck for something to do this weekend? Fancy meeting some like minded local friends? Open Havelock might just be the thing for you. It's an event organised by Peabody that is trying to show off some of the best things about the local community, events include:

Wednesday 22 November 2023 EYFS Oral Health Workshop SMILE! There's always loads of these floating around at Dairy Meadow, Monday 20th November saw a few more in Nursery and Reception as they welcomed the Ealing oral health practitioner, Adele, to give some top tips about how to keep our teeth clean and healthy.

Monday 20 November 2023 Year 5 visit the National Gallery A very wet and windy Tuesday 14th November 2023 saw our young artists and sculptors visit the National Gallery for a unique chance of getting up close and personal with some incredibly famous pieces of art.

Monday 20 November 2023 Years 3/4 Boys Football Tournament Below is a report from Coach Perry regarding the Years 3 and 4 Boys Football tournament held on the 3rd November 2023.

Monday 20 November 2023 Year 5/6 Girls Football Tournament Below is a report of the Year 5/6 Girls Football Tournament from Coach Perry held on the 16th November 2023.

Monday 20 November 2023 A visit from Kuljit Bhamra - Tabla player extraordinaire As part of our Dairy Meadow Cultural Day celebrations last week, Monday 13th November saw us have a visit from percussion royalty, Mr Kuljit Bhamra. Kuljit has travelled the globe playing the tabla (a type of Indian drum) and has composed many famous songs that you may have heard of - the Augustus Gloop song from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory anyone?!

Monday 20 November 2023 2023-2024 Road Safety Week We all drive a bit too fast sometimes... it's not clever but it does happen. Road Safety Week 2023 runs from the 19th-25th November, here at Dairy Meadow we will be looking at how to stay safe on the roads.

Tuesday 14 November 2023 Fire Brigade Visit EYFS Nursery and Reception welcomed some special visitors on Tuesday 7th November 2023 as representatives from the local fire brigade drove in to see our future first responders.

Tuesday 14 November 2023 Southall Proud - A visit from Suresh Grover On Monday the 13th November 2023, as part of our Dairy Meadow Cultural Day, Year 6 welcomed Suresh Grover and Janpal Basran to the school to find out a little bit more about the unique history of Southall.

Tuesday 14 November 2023 Scootfit Training Want to hear a joke? What's got two feet, two wheels and can burn lots of calories an hour? The answer is YOU, if you get on your scooter!

Monday 13 November 2023 Year 6 Visit Sky Studios Tuesday 7th November and Thursday 9th November saw our Year 6 children become members of the media as they embarked on a visit to Sky Studios in Osterley.

Thursday 9 November 2023 Nasal Flu Vaccine - Information for Parents Nasal Flu Vaccinations will take place at Dairy Meadow on Friday 17th November 2023 for Reception through to Year 6. Information can be found in the links below.

Wednesday 8 November 2023 Children In Need 2023 Please see below a letter from Miss Geddes all about the celebrations for Children In Need being held at Dairy Meadow.

Tuesday 7 November 2023 Monday 13th November 2023 - Cultural Dress Day Please read the letter below about the Dairy Meadow Cultural Dress Day to celebrate Diwali.

Monday 6 November 2023 Hot Chocolate Friday - Writing Friday 3rd November 2023 saw our pupil voice session, Hot Chocolate Friday, discuss what's going well and what could be improved within our writing curriculum. I'd like to thank the following future authors, publishers and screenwriters for joining me - Israa, Sharvi, Kaycee, Emaad, Armaan, Anaiyah, Kabir and Azaan.

Friday 3 November 2023 First Edition of The Meadows Newspaper READ ALL ABOUT IT!

Wednesday 1 November 2023 Reception and Year 6 - Height and Weight Check Supporting Information For Parents

Wednesday 1 November 2023 Reception and Year 6 - Height and Weight Check

Wednesday 1 November 2023 Years 3+4 Indoor Athletics Tournament A report from Coach Perry about the indoor athletics tournament held on Tuesday 31st October 2023.

Wednesday 1 November 2023 Years 3+4 Girls Football Tournament A report from Coach Perry about the Years 3+4 Girls Football Tournament held on the 19th October 2023.

Tuesday 31 October 2023 Tech Club - Autumn 2 I'm pleased to announce that Tech Club is back in the second half of the Autumn Term.

Friday 20 October 2023 SCS Railways visit Years 4 and 5 Thursday 19th October 2023 saw our children pull together learning from their DT, Geography and Skills Builder curriculums as they tackled a fiendishly difficult problem from SCS Railways.

Wednesday 18 October 2023 Year 3 Pedestrian Training On Monday 16th October 2023, Year 3 took part in a pedestrian training course.

Tuesday 17 October 2023 Food Parcels Arrived Parents and carers who requested some help with food, I'm pleased to announce that the Southall Community Alliance delivered the goods yesterday.

Tuesday 17 October 2023 Eco Committee Launch Monday 16th October 2023 saw Dairy Meadow become a little greener as Mr Feldman and Mrs Sahota launched the very first Eco Committee. 12 children with a passion for the environment and doing their bit to reverse the impact of climate change met to start implementing environmentally friendly initiatives in their community.

Monday 16 October 2023 Willow Class Assembly I've seen a lot of assemblies in my 16 years in education (yes, I am an old man), however it's very rare that I spend most of the weekend having the song go round and round in my head. Congratulations Willow Class, you have managed to give me an earworm!

Monday 16 October 2023 Our SEND Panathlon Friday 13th October 2023 definitely wasn't unlucky for some of our young olympians as they took part in our panathlon athletics event right here at Dairy Meadow.

Tuesday 10 October 2023 OFSTED Parent Survey Please find attached below the letter outlining the details of our Ofsted inspection on the 11th and 12th October 2023.

Monday 9 October 2023 National Sleep Helpline If your child is suffering from sleep issues, there is a new national helpline that you can call to get support.

Friday 6 October 2023 2023-2024 Hot Chocolate Friday - Maths The pitter patter of tiny feet outside the staff room, anxious voices ready to impress all with their mathematical knowledge, a heightening sense of anticipation at the potential consumption of custard creams - it can only be Hot Chocolate Friday.

Friday 6 October 2023 Year 5 Fieldwork Trip Thursday 5th October 2023 saw our intrepid Year 5's conduct some fieldwork studies to supplement their geography and science curriculum. Thanks to our relationship with Berkeley Homes, our botanists and zoologists were able to explore all the areas of the new Green Quarter development - a verdant oasis just opposite Southall station.

Friday 6 October 2023 Featherstone Readers Intervening! It's been an absolute pleasure for me to co-ordinate a reading intervention for some of our children in conjunction with Mr Webb at Featherstone High. From an initial 30 minute meeting, we managed to rope in Mrs Cheung and Miss Spilsted to help co-ordinate 16 Year 12 and 13 students to demonstrate and coach reading fluency to some of our Year 2 children.

Tuesday 3 October 2023 Online Safety Information For Parents Our young people use the internet to contact friends they might know from school or other activities.

Tuesday 3 October 2023 Get Active - Go Green Are you stuck for something fun to do this weekend? The Green Quarter in Southall (opposite Southall station) is holding a free community event to get everyone out and about in the sunshine.

Thursday 28 September 2023 Brompton Cycles Showcase for Year 5 Thursday 28th September 2023 saw our Year 5's receive a special treat from Brompton Cycles and Primary Futures - a unique showcase that allowed us to go behind the scenes at one of the UK's most innovative companies.

Thursday 28 September 2023 Macmillan Cancer Support On Friday the 29th September 2023, Dairy Meadow will be joining lots of other schools up and down the country to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Children are allowed to wear fun socks to school in addition to their normal school uniform - a £1 donation to the charity would be lovely as well.

Wednesday 27 September 2023 Volunteer Police Cadets The volunteer police cadets are looking for young people (10-13 years old) to join their ranks.

Wednesday 27 September 2023 Road Safety Week Almost a third of people in this country admitted to using their phone as they crossed the road! How dangerous is that

Monday 25 September 2023 Jumpsec visit Years 5 and 6. Friday the 22nd September 2023 saw Dairy Meadow hold our first careers event of the academic year. As you know, we want all our young people to dream big but they can only do that if they are exposed to the world of work from an early age. Mr Feldman put on his thinking cap and pondered - "what industry are all our children fascinated in" - and the answer popped into his head, "of course! computers!".

Monday 25 September 2023 National Fitness Day Last week trainers were tied up, water bottles filled and sweatbands placed around wrists...

Friday 22 September 2023 Support for Parents - Food Parcels We appreciate that things are difficult for various members of the Dairy Meadow family at the moment. We have partnered up with the Southall Community Alliance to receive some food parcels for 40 families that might be finding things tough.

Friday 22 September 2023 Featherstone Visit Year 6 It's always a pleasure to welcome our good friend, Assistant Head of Featherstone High School, Mr Sangha to Dairy Meadow.

Friday 22 September 2023 Hot Chocolate Thursday - Art Our Pupil Voice session, Hot Chocolate Thursday (moved because Mr F has a careers event to host on Friday afternoon!) met over orange squash and Oreo's to discuss the intent of our Art curriculum. This week he was joined by the Art champion Miss Geddes.

Monday 18 September 2023 Chiswick Book Festival We are so proud of how creative and talented our writers are here at Dairy Meadow, now they are starting to receive recognition outside of the borough!

Monday 18 September 2023 Hot Chocolate Friday 23/24 - History The new academic year saw a welcome return for our Pupil Voice sessions - Hot Chocolate Friday (it was actually orange squash this week as it was too hot!). Friday afternoon saw Mr Feldman and 10 of our young archivists, archaeologists and researchers take a deep dive into what it means to be a historian.

Thursday 14 September 2023 National Fitness Day - 20th September 2023 National Fitness Day 2023 will take place on Wednesday 20th September 2023, right here at Dairy Meadow! Dust off your dumbbells, crack out your leotard and get ready to get that heart rate pumping!

Thursday 14 September 2023 Tuberculosis Awareness Workshop Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that most commonly affects the lungs and is caused by a type of bacteria present in the air. It spreads when people: cough, sneeze or spit. Sadly cases of tuberculosis are on the rise in the borough of Ealing. As a result, the NHS are running a workshop about the disease. If you would like to attend, please email the school office on office@dairy-meadow.ealing.sch.uk with your name and mobile number to be booked on.

Wednesday 13 September 2023 Family School Partnership Award Here at Dairy Meadow we are always trying to make sure we connect all aspects of school life. To ensure that we are reaching all of our stakeholders, we are currently in the process of gathering some opinions on how everyone directly involved feels about the school.

Monday 11 September 2023 Speech and Language Support for the Under 5's

Tuesday 5 September 2023 Ealing Parenting Service - Autumn Workshops Part of being a member of the Dairy Meadow family is having the ability to ask for help when needed. The Ealing Parenting Service runs workshops all the way through the year to support parents/carers in a range of topics.

Tuesday 5 September 2023 Tech Club Our incredibly popular Technology Club run by Mr Hines starts up again on Thursday 21st September 2023 from 3.30pm-4.30pm.

Monday 4 September 2023 Ealing Speech and Language Team - Available Help The Ealing Speech and Language Team are here to help any parent or carer who may have a concern about their child. Many of the resources are available without a referral and can be accessed by scanning the QR codes below. This will then take you to the You Tube/Facebook pages with the relevant information.

Friday 21 July 2023 Skills Builder Challenge Day All of Dairy Meadow put those wonderful Skills Builder skills into practice last week to solve a problem that has been plaguing mankind for generations - How could we start a different society in outer space

Thursday 20 July 2023 Ealing Mental Health Support Team - Summer Workshops We all appreciate that the Summer holidays may not be a joyous time for all members of the Dairy Meadow family. There are many stresses that can impact your day to day mental health such as financial worries and exam stress.

Monday 17 July 2023 Cisco Visit Year 6 Even though it's the last week of the Summer term, we still try and provide our children with as much enrichment and careers related learning as possible. Today we welcome Devyani Geenital to the Dairy Meadow family.

Monday 17 July 2023 Year 4 Visit Kidzania On Friday 14th July 2023, Year 4 participated in a trip to KidZania- Westfield, London. This trip was an exciting and engaging part of our curriculum linking to future jobs and helping the children understand how the world works. The children were able to experiment with learning in an indoor city where they worked, earned Kidzo's and played just like in the real world. The activities were designed with reference to the national curriculum, and helped bring classroom learning to life around STEM, literacy and PSHE.

Monday 17 July 2023 School's Veg Plant Giveaway Dairy Meadow was fortunate enough to receive a plant donation by MindFood during their third annual schools' veg plant giveaway. Mindfood is an Ealing-based mental health charity supporting people with depression and anxiety by providing courses in food growing, gardening, art and more. The project started out in Lockdown 2020 as a way to show schools that stayed open that we were thinking of them as they supported the children of health workers and key workers through the pandemic.

Monday 17 July 2023 A Message from Rev. Anna As a school, Dairy Meadow is incredibly focussed on connecting our families with events that are occurring within the local community. Our wonderful Reverend Anna, head of St John's Church, would like all of our families to be aware of some of the fantastic free goings-on in Southall over the Summer holidays.

Friday 14 July 2023 Sports Day! The 11th and 12th of July 2023 had some strange noises in the air over the Swift Road sports centre. Heavy breathing, water bottles opening, hamstrings stretching, encouraging chants...it can only mean one thing... SPORTS DAY!

Friday 14 July 2023 Year 6 NFL Fun Day Sometimes it's fun to get outside your comfort zone and try something new. There are so many amazing sports out there, why waste your time with the same boring: football, dodgeball and cricket Our intrepid Year 6's decided to do just that as they put on their shoulder pads and helmets to play American football.

Friday 14 July 2023 Year 5's Out of this World Experience The famous novelist, Terry Pratchett, once said "so much universe, so little time" - in a bid to make our solar system just that little bit more manageable for our future astronauts, Year 5 took part in an amazing STEM workshop with St Paul's Girls School in Hammersmith.

Tuesday 11 July 2023 Summer Reading Challenge - Southall Library We all know books are amazing don't we Everyone here at Dairy Meadow knows the power of reading and how it can help us do amazing things in life. Recently I think I found my favourite ever quote from inside a book:

Tuesday 11 July 2023 Free School Meals - September 2023 We all know how difficult it is to concentrate when your stomach is rumbling. Bearing this in mind, Sadiq Khan and the London Mayor's Office are offering all children free school meals from September 2023.

Tuesday 11 July 2023 Summer Immunisation Schedule With the Summer holiday set to be swiftly upon us, it gives us a great time to get on top of all the things we may have missed out on whilst our young people have been working so hard.

Tuesday 11 July 2023 HAF2023 - Summer Activity Programme for Year 6 Are you thinking that the 6 week Summer holiday is an awfully long time to not be entertained If so, why don't you pop down to the Young Adult Centre on Park View Road

Thursday 6 July 2023 Year 1 Visit Kidzania I know I'm a 40 year old man but I don't ever remember school trips being this cool when I was at primary school! I remember going to the Science Museum (which is awesome) but I never was able to practice my skills as a surgeon or put out a fire! Our Year 1's did though...

Thursday 6 July 2023 Havelock Community Picnic It's such beautiful weather outside at the moment that it would be a shame not to enjoy some al-fresco eating! The only thing that could improve the experience is if we shared the afternoon with some of our local community!

Thursday 6 July 2023 Police Advice - Walking to School It's coming to that point in the year where we think about changes to our daily routines. Our Year 6's will be heading off to Year 7 - our Year 4's will be heading into Year 5 - with this comes new responsibilities.

Monday 3 July 2023 Free First News resources At Dairy Meadow we use First News as a resource to raise our children's cultural capital by learning more about the world around them. We are pleased to announce that all of our young journalists can access the online site from home!

Monday 3 July 2023 Nursery visit Bocketts Farm

Friday 30 June 2023 Street Elite Festival Everyone has hidden talents don't they How do you know you are not a master of something if you don't try it out first Our fearless learners in Maple Class answered these questions by showing off some secret sporting prowess at the Street Elite Festival at The Green Quarter on Thursday 29th June 2023.

Wednesday 28 June 2023 Let's Leap Summer Holiday Camp 2023 Dairy Meadow are pleased to be hosting the Let's Leap Summer Holiday Camp for 2023. If you enjoyed their bouncy castle and go karts at the summer fair, you will love the other activities they have on offer for all young people from the ages of 4-11 years old.

Wednesday 28 June 2023 Race For Life - Our Philanthropist Twins At Dairy Meadow we like to breed champions - remember Sharvi absolutely bossing the mini marathon I'm pleased to say that we now have another pair to add to the Dairy Meadow wall of sporting excellence - take a bow Caidon and Cairo Bracey-Bussell.

Tuesday 27 June 2023 The Green Quarter - Statue Naming Ceremony I know we're all proud to live and/or work in Southall, there is now a reason to be even prouder! You might have seen all the building work that has happened opposite Southall station, this is the creation of an amazing area called The Green Quarter. Through the property developer Berkeley Homes, an area containing: affordable housing, children's playgrounds, sports fields and community hubs have been created. These are places that you and your families might end up living or relaxing in.

Friday 23 June 2023 PP Trip to the National Gallery In my 15 years of teaching, I've been on a lot of trips! However I truly mean that our trip to the National Gallery on Tuesday 20th June 2023 was definitely the most unique! Not only did we see some sensational artwork but we also met some royalty!

Friday 23 June 2023 Self-Care Invite for Parents and Carers I'm sure everyone is feeling the stresses and strains at the moment as we end another busy, yet successful, year here at Dairy Meadow.

Friday 23 June 2023 Monster Poetry Winners! Monsters come in all shapes and sizes don't they

Friday 23 June 2023 Ealing Advice Service Everyone in the Dairy Meadow family needs some support every now and then. We appreciate that things are difficult at the moment. If you are having any issues with the following:

Friday 23 June 2023 Three Bridges Athletics Competition Confidence. Athleticism. Determination. It was all on display at the Three Bridges athletics competition.

Friday 23 June 2023 Young Writers Competition Winners I know they say, "It's not the winning that counts, but the taking part" but I absolutely love it when our children's talents are recognised!

Friday 16 June 2023 Skills Builder - Summer 2023 It's been a wonderful end to our Skills Builder here at Dairy Meadow as all our children complete their Summer projects.

Friday 16 June 2023 Ealing Holiday Activities and Food Programme - Summer 2023 Ealing's Summer Holiday Activities and Food Programme runs from Friday 31st July to Friday 1st September 2023.

Friday 16 June 2023 Support With Fussy Eaters At Dairy Meadow we are committed to meeting the needs of our children and the wider community. Recently, several parents have asked for some support with helping their children make the right decisions around food and eating.

Friday 16 June 2023 Year 1 Have Been Chopping, Slicing and Mashing Year 1 have been exploring the wonderful world of food in their DT unit - Chop, Slice and Mash.

Friday 16 June 2023 Bring Your Family to University Day Bring Your Family to University Day are free one day events for children from Year 5 to Year 11 and their families held at UCL's central London campus.

Wednesday 14 June 2023 Letter from the NHS During this spell of recent high temperatures our hospitals have come under particularly heavy pressure. We are seeing a significant increase in health issues related to the hot weather and the very high pollen count in the area.

Tuesday 13 June 2023 New After School Computing Club Dairy Meadow are pleased to announce that a new after school computing club will be launched on Thursday afternoons starting on the 29th June 2023.

Tuesday 13 June 2023 SEND Football Club Launched At Dairy Meadow we believe that sport should be accessible to all. It is a vital part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle as well as making new friends. We recognise that not all of our amazing young people learn and communicate in the same way - if this sounds like your child, we urge them to check out the new football club advertised below.

Monday 12 June 2023 Digital Eagles - Online Safety Event Digital Eagles are running a free online safety event aimed at parents on Friday 23rd June 2023 from 11am.

Monday 12 June 2023 World of Work - a Year 6 Immersive Experience At Dairy Meadow we always try to inspire our children to 'Dream Big'. We're proud that our curriculum that builds skills and knowledge - paving the way for future success and readying our intrepid learners for careers in the big wide world. However, this got me thinking, how can we expect our junior scientists, mathematicians and historians to become the surgeons, accountants and archivists of the future if they don't know how to apply for a job This is where Holland House and the amazing Dr Sharon Wright came into play.

Monday 12 June 2023 Plot 17 Rocked the House Picture the scene ok... You come into school ready for: Guided Reading, Maths and History etc when you notice a huge multicoloured van in the playground. On further inspection you notice that inside there is a set of DJ decks and a rather large speaker system. Thursday 8th June 2023 wasn't just a normal day in the Dairy Meadow - it was the day that Plot 17 brought their message of nature and sustainability to our young environmentalists.

Friday 9 June 2023 Southall Community Alliance Newsletter The Southall Community Alliance provide support, guidance and enrichment for all families that live and work in this fantastic area.

Friday 9 June 2023 Online Transition Workshop for Parents We all know that the transition from Year 6 to Year 7 can be challenging for parents and children alike. The Ealing Mental Health Support Team are running a free online workshop on Tuesday 13th June 2023 at 4pm to be held on Microsoft Teams to give some information on how to best support your child in this transition.

Thursday 25 May 2023 Dairy Meadow Sculptors - Year 4 Our Year 4's have channelled their inner Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore and Louise Bourgeois during their art project this week - Statues, Statuettes and Figurines.

Thursday 25 May 2023 Dairy Meadow Scientists - Mars Balloon Launch Our Dairy Meadow Scientists are at it again! Our school will once against participate in the MarsBalloon Launch run by the Thales Group. Dairy Meadow will be sending two experiments into space.

Wednesday 24 May 2023 Skills Builder - Doing Good

Monday 22 May 2023 Our New School Photographer - Safwat

Monday 22 May 2023 Year 6 - Go Ape! Brave, fearless, courageous and confident - all wonderful adjectives that were on display at Go Ape in Black Park on Thursday 18th May 2023 as our Year 6's visited.

Friday 19 May 2023 Count on Us Maths Challenge Tuesday 16th May 2023 saw Miss Khan take a band of intrepid mathematicians into central London to take part in the Count on Us Maths Challenge - an initiative by the Mayor Of London's office.

Friday 19 May 2023 Southall Mela Saturday 3rd June 2023 sees the Southall Mela being held at Southall Town Hall. It promises to be a wonderful afternoon packed with dancing, food and activities for the whole family.

Monday 15 May 2023 Let's Go Southall - Consultation Event Southall is a great place to live isn't it There are so many amazing things going on but one of the things I would change is the traffic!

Monday 15 May 2023 London Youth Games Thursday 11th May 2023 saw our young athletes take part in the London Youth Games. The children proudly represented the borough of Ealing in tests of: speed, strength, agility and teamwork.

Friday 12 May 2023 Project Jupiter - The Finale!

Friday 12 May 2023 Ealing Parenting Service - Summer Programme Ealing Parenting Service have announced their series of Summer workshops that are free to all parents.

Friday 12 May 2023 Fostering Drop In Sessions

Friday 12 May 2023 Are You Being SugarSmart? Next month, from the 12th-16th June is Healthy Eating Week in British schools. I'm sure we could all do with having a good look at our diet and making some improvements! By looking at www.sugarsmartuk.org you could start making some healthy choices and looking at ways to reduce your sugar consumption in your diet.

Friday 5 May 2023 Ealing Foodbank - May Shopping List

Friday 5 May 2023 Year 4 Towpath Visit

Friday 5 May 2023 PARENTINGU - Workshops for Parents PARENTINGU are running a trio of workshops for parents who feel they may benefit from some extra support, information about the courses are listed below.

Friday 28 April 2023 Polio and MMR vaccines Please see the attached letter from NHS England regarding Phase 2 of the Polio & MMR vaccinations campaign. Whilst there is no need for any action at this time, parents might wish to consider immunisations for their children if they are not currently innoculated against these illnesses.

Friday 28 April 2023 Jocelyn - Our famous poet. You might have remembered a while back that Mrs Sahota organised a fantastic poetry competition for the entire school, all about the seasons. Whilst that was incredibly exciting in itself, it was even more amazing when Jocelyn won a prize!

Friday 28 April 2023 Ealing Peregrine Falcons You might remember a while back the lovely story of a pair of breeding falcons that were living at Ealing Hospital Our keen eyed parent Mrs Shahzad (Danyal's mum) has been keeping us abreast of what is going on with our feathered friends, guess what! They had their chicks.

Friday 28 April 2023 Ealing Speech and Language - Coffee Morning

Friday 28 April 2023 Sharvi - Dairy Meadow's own Mo Farah They say that the mark of a true athlete is consistency. You might remember that exactly a year ago, Sharvi received a medal for completing the London Mini Marathon, well guess what! It's only happened again!

Friday 21 April 2023 Water Safety Assemblies - SAFE

Friday 21 April 2023 Year 2 Visit the Wetlands Centre Just before the Easter holidays, our zoologists in Year 2 went and explore the London Wetland Centre in Barnes.

Friday 21 April 2023 Making the Most of the Dominion Library At Dairy Meadow we are really proud of the connection we have with the Dominion Library. With everything in the world getting more expensive, a place where you can borrow books from for free sounds good to me! Plus, whilst you're there you can meet the head librarian Surekha and see the Martinware pottery that was made just down the road.

Friday 21 April 2023 Meal Planning Help for Parents

Friday 21 April 2023 Ealing Speech and Language Team - Summer Workshops Throughout the Summer Term 2023, Ealing Mainstream Universal Speech and Language Team are running parent workshops online via Zoom.

Friday 31 March 2023 Met Police Parental Engagement Session - County Lines

Wednesday 29 March 2023 Year 1 Art Gallery You've heard of some of the great art galleries of the world: Tate Modern, Louvre, Guggenheim but you haven't lived until you have seen Year 1's SkillsBuilder art gallery.

Monday 27 March 2023 Beavers Being Re-Introduced to West London Our little part of West London is crawling (literally) with some amazing wildlife! You may or may not know that beavers are being re-introduced into West London for the first time in almost 400 years!

Monday 27 March 2023 Hot Chocolate Friday - Geography Friday 24th March 2023 saw a welcome return to our pupil voice session - Hot Chocolate Friday (there was orange squash and Ribena because Mr Feldman forgot to buy the hot chocolate!). We were also joined by Miss Steadman to discuss the Geography curriculum here at Dairy Meadow.

Friday 24 March 2023 World Book Day 2023 Celebrations To celebrate World Book Day, Dairy Meadow has had some very special visitors.

Thursday 23 March 2023 Peregrine Falcons in Ealing! All of our school lives here at Dairy Meadow are so busy that sometimes we forget to stop and be mindful of all the wonderful nature that surrounds ace. Fortunately Petra Shahzad, the mother of Daanyal in Elm Class, has draw our attention to something quite wonderful.

Thursday 23 March 2023 £35 Food Voucher for Free School Meal Children Everyone in the Dairy Meadow family realises just how difficult things are at the moment. Rising energy prices, inflation and rents mean it is vital that everyone is able to take advantage of the financial assistance that is available to our families.

Thursday 23 March 2023 Ealing Parenting Service - Upcoming Workshops Summer 2023 Ealing Parenting Service are running a series of workshops around a variety of topics. I wholeheartedly recommend all Year 6 parents to attend the Transitioning to Secondary School workshop on Tuesday 9th May 2023, this will help allay any fears both parents, carers and children may have.

Thursday 23 March 2023 Library Trips March 2023 has seen every single class at Dairy Meadow visit the Dominion Library in Southall. In a world of: Nintendo Switches, Fortnite and Tik Tok, it's easy to forget just how amazing the local library can be. Our inspirational Reading leader, Miss Spilsted, has forged some vital relationships with the head librarian Surekha that has allowed all of our children to take home books, research their History and Geography topics as well as visit the Martinware pottery.

Thursday 23 March 2023 Project Jupiter - Session 5 Mr McInnes and his fearless musicians have taken to performance like ducks to water! Tuesday 21st March 2023 saw another performance session at St Paul's Girls School in preparation for a future orchestral rehearsal.

Thursday 23 March 2023 Valentino - Our STEM visitor comes to talk to KS2

Monday 13 March 2023 School Council Trip - Holland House Friday 10th March 2023, our School Councillors left their roles as mild mannered pupils and embarked on a challenging new career within the City of London. We spent a wonderful day working with Dr Sharon Wright at Holland House, in the shadow of the Gherkin, giving our young people a glimpse of potential jobs they could be doing in the future (with only a 30 minute commute on the Elizabeth Line).

Thursday 9 March 2023 Girls Football Festival On Wednesday 8th March 2023, our girls football team were invited to Ealing Trailfinders to take part in the KS2 Girls Football Festival.

Thursday 9 March 2023 Gareth Jones - Author Visit On Monday 6th March 2023, as part of our World Book Week/Day celebrations, the acclaimed children's author Gareth Jones came to work with classes from Nursery to Year 4.

Friday 3 March 2023 Ealing Foodbank - Food Donation Locations

Friday 3 March 2023 Smile!!! On Monday 27th February 2023, Ealing's Oral Health Promoter, Adele Francois, came to talk to the children about the importance of healthy teeth and gums. We are no strangers to seeing children walking around with huge smiles of their faces here at Dairy Meadow and we are proud to see our youngsters have gleaming teeth.

Friday 3 March 2023 Who's That Biscuit-y Looking Gentleman?! There was a sweet, mischievious individual on the loose at Dairy Meadow on Friday, you might not have noticed him as he moved incredibly quickly and smelled faintly of ginger!

Friday 3 March 2023 Letter from the Metropolitan Police Please read below a letter sent from the Ealing Safer Schools team about a series of robberies against school aged children in Ealing. By following some of the simple tips, you can help keep your child safe.

Friday 24 February 2023 Spring Term Author Visits In our quest to find the next generation of Bali Rai's and Sufiya Ahmed's within Dairy Meadow, Miss Spilsted has arranged a fantastic selection of authors to come and work with the children (a full list is below).

Friday 24 February 2023 Year 6 Drugs Talk. On Monday 20th February 2023, PC McGuigan and her colleague from the Ealing safer schools team came to speak to Oak and Elm Class about the dangers of drugs. These regular visits from PC McGuigan have been organised by our PSHE lead Miss Nessa and are vital in making sure children stay safe.

Friday 10 February 2023 Dairy Meadow Book Club

Tuesday 7 February 2023 Let's Go Out and About - February Half Term 2023 The week beginning Monday 13th February 2023 is half term for Ealing schools. We appreciate how difficult, not to mention expensive, activities are to keep children educated and entertained.

Tuesday 7 February 2023 Scholastic Book Fair Dairy Meadow is pleased to announced that we will be hosting the Scholastic Book Fair on the first week back after half term.

Monday 6 February 2023 Working with St Paul's Girls School On Thursday 26th January 2023, a group of our Year 5 children were able to take part in a musical project alongside St Paul's Girls School and Derwentwater Primary.

Monday 6 February 2023 Year 2 and 5 - Fire Safety Workshop On Monday 30th January 2023, Years 2 and 5 welcomed a guest from the London Fire Brigade, Kaival Singh, to learn all about fire safety.

Monday 6 February 2023 Ealing Speech and Language Team - Spring Workshops The Ealing Speech and Language Team are running a range of free workshops for parents during the Spring term. All the workshops are held online and a referral is not needed to attend.

Monday 6 February 2023 NHS Child Flu Vaccination Please see the letter below for some important information about the NHS Child Flu Vaccination programme.

Monday 6 February 2023 Science Club - Oobleck

Monday 6 February 2023 Ealing Parenting Service - Upcoming Workshops All parents and carers face parenting challenges from time-to-time, and may benefit from support and new ideas to help them deal with the issues that their family is facing. Ealing Parenting Service offer a range of parenting programmes for parents/carers of children and young people aged between 3- 18. There are also one-off parenting workshops that cover a variety of topics, delivered by experienced professionals.

Monday 30 January 2023 Science Club - Lava Lamps It's been a groovy week in Miss Khan's Key Stage 1 Science club as our young engineers get to grips with making some incredibly groovy lava lamps.

Friday 27 January 2023 Raising Confident Children Workshop Ealing are offering a free 8 week online course to support parents in building the confidence of their children.

Wednesday 25 January 2023 SEND Parent Workshop

Tuesday 24 January 2023 NEU Strike Action - Wednesday 1st February 2023 Please read below an important letter from Mrs Reed regarding the National Education Union (NEU) strike on Wednesday 1st February 2023.

Monday 23 January 2023 Hot Chocolate Friday - Music! Our regular pupil voice session - Hot Chocolate Friday - met for the first time in the Spring term on Friday 20th January 2023 to discuss our music curriculum here at Dairy Meadow. A really productive discussion, alongside a lot of Bourbon biscuits, occurred with Mrs Smith and Mr McInnes sitting in as well.

Friday 20 January 2023 Ealing Mental Health Support Team - Online Workshop At Dairy Meadow we appreciate that it is difficult for some of our young people to get back into a routine following a school holiday. If you think you could benefit with some help in encouraging your child to reconnect with their learning following some time away, Ealing Mental Health Support Team are running some free online webinars on the 31st January 2023 to help with the transition back to school.

Thursday 19 January 2023 Building Future London Celebration A brisk, bright Wednesday 18th January 2023 saw Mr Feldman and Mrs Bhambra take 10 of our wonderful young engineers to City Hall (the workplace of London Mayor Sadiq Khan) to take part in the Building Future London Celebration event.

Tuesday 17 January 2023 A follow up letter to Cedar Class from Mrs Reed Please read below for further contextual information regarding the staffing of Cedar Class.

Thursday 12 January 2023 A letter to Cedar Class parents - from Mrs Reed

Tuesday 10 January 2023 Ealing Speech and Language Team Ealing Mainstream Universal Speech and Language Therapy Team have just announced their Spring workshops.

Thursday 5 January 2023 Crisis Intervention and Mental Health Support in Ealing Circle is a hub space and crisis cafe that will offer support for young people aged 5-18 in Ealing and Hounslow who are near, or at crisis point with their mental health.

Thursday 5 January 2023 Southall Active Travel Consultation - January 2023

Thursday 15 December 2022 Special Delivery from Year 1! This afternoon Daisy Class went to the post box to post their special letters to Santa! This was part of our Skills Builder week project where children were learning all about how letters are sent to loved ones and how parcels travel around the world! Everyone in Year 1 hopes that you receive something pleasant in the mail over the festive period!

Wednesday 14 December 2022 A Special Visitor... They say a picture can speak a million words...all I'm going to say is something quite magical happened in Nursery today. It just goes to show what good boys and girls we have here at Dairy Meadow for our special visitor to come all the way from the North Pole. Who knows, maybe if you do your homework and listen to what you adults say, you'll have a special visitor like we had today!

Wednesday 14 December 2022 Year 4's Brilliant Books Project As part of Skills Builder week, Year 4 harnessed their inner publishers and advertisers to explore how best to promote reading here at Dairy Meadow.

Wednesday 14 December 2022 Reception Nativity You really know Christmas is coming when a menagerie of: donkeys, angels, wise men and shepherds come walking past your office on a regular basis! In arguably the cutest part of the year, Reception have been dazzling everyone with their Nativity performance.

Friday 9 December 2022 Hot Chocolate Friday - Computing! After a week off, our pupil voice sessions - Hot Chocolate Friday saw us get together to discuss the merits of our Computing curriculum.

Friday 9 December 2022 Year 3 and 4 Athletics Tournament On Friday 9th December 2022, our young athletes travelled to Featherstone High School to take part in an athletics tournament. Their ability to sprint, jump, bounce and pace themselves were tested to the max as they competed against several other local schools.

Friday 9 December 2022 Can You Smell, What Year 6, Are Cooking? There have been some very strange smell coming out of Oak and Elm Class this week! (in a really good way!). As part of their DT topic Food For Life, our young chefs have been designing their own menu that shuns the preservatives that litter most fast foods.

Friday 9 December 2022 School Council - Tree Decoration "Oh, It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!" sings Mr Feldman in his incredibly soulful voice! There is a light dusting of snow and just a hint of magic in the Dairy Meadow this week, all provided by Mr Haines, Miss Nessa and the amazing school council!

Thursday 8 December 2022 Parent Workshop - Behavioural Difficulties

Wednesday 7 December 2022 Ealing Schools Counselling Partnership - Coffee Morning Ealing Schools Counselling Partnership are hosting a coffee morning for all parents here at Dairy Meadow on the 13th December 2022 from 9.00-10.00am.

Wednesday 7 December 2022 Could Years 4 and 5 break the code? We know that our Years 4 and 5 love being at Dairy Meadow, but what if we said they weren't allowed to leave until they had completed a series of fiendishly difficult maths challenges! This was the reality on Monday 5th December 2022, as we had our first ever Dairy Meadow Escape Room Challenge! (In case parents are worried, we didn't lock the children in and they were free to go out to play and use the bathroom!).

Monday 5 December 2022 Southall Active Travel Consultation Ealing Council and Let's Go Southall are currently consulting on how to improve opportunities and access to more environmentally friendly modes of transport. If you're passionate about walking, cycling and using public transport, plus have a desire to promote a green agenda, please have a look at the information below.

Monday 5 December 2022 Scarlet Fever Please see below for some important information on the Group A strep bacteria that has been found in Ealing schools. It is a common bacteria that can cause a range of illnesses. If your child displays any of the symptoms, please get appropriate help and follow the guidance in the letter below.

Monday 5 December 2022 Jam Coding - Robotics Workshops We are pleased to announce that our incredibly popular computing club is returning in the new year (details below). The club runs for 5 weeks on Friday after school starting on Friday 13th January 2023.

Monday 5 December 2022 Christmas Vaccination Programme Please read the letter below about the Christmas vaccination programme from the North West London Vaccinations and Immunisation team.

Friday 2 December 2022 Jocelyn - Our Award Winning Poet! At Dairy Meadow we always try and get our young people to dream big and realise that nothing should be a barrier to future success - we didn't realise that Jocelyn in Year 1 would achieve this before the age of 7!

Thursday 1 December 2022 Boccia Tournament On Thursday 1st December 2022, some of our children took part in a boccia tournament at Villiers High School. I must admit, before our young athletes went, I had no idea about the sport so here are some of the rules and regulations about this game that goes all the way back to Ancient Greece!

Thursday 1 December 2022 Year 1 Gruffalo Workshop

Tuesday 29 November 2022 Cost of Living It is a difficult time for all of the Dairy Meadow family at the moment. Rising energy prices and inflation has seen the cost of living soar for everyone in our community. To make sure you are receiving all available support from Ealing Council, please look at the PDF below.

Monday 28 November 2022 Year 3 go back to the Stone Age Last Monday (21st November 2022, yes I forgot to update the website!) our young historians, social anthropologists and palaeontologists had a sensational workshop that charted the journey from Stone Age to Iron Age in Britain.

Friday 25 November 2022 Hot Chocolate Friday - Science Hot Chocolate Friday on the 25th November 2022 was a meeting of our junior scientists (and Mr Feldman) as we picked apart our Science curriculum, as well as getting side tracked about a discussion about global warming!

Wednesday 23 November 2022 Year 5 visit Greenford High School for DT

Friday 18 November 2022 Ash Class' Assembly To coincide with Children In Need, Ash Class performed a wonderful assembly on Friday 18th November 2022.

Friday 18 November 2022 Children In Need 2022 Children in Need 2022 came to Dairy Meadow on Friday 18th November 2022. We had a pyjama day but there was no sleeping on the job as we raised £340 for an amazing cause. Thank you to all our children and staff who donned their slippers, dressing gowns, PJ's and Pudsey ears.

Friday 18 November 2022 Hot Chocolate Friday - PE! Our pupil voice sessions put on our tracksuit bottoms and grabbed our sweatbands this week as Mr Feldman and his wonderful friends had a lively discussion about our PE curriculum.

Friday 18 November 2022 Working with our local artist. On Tuesday 14th November 2022 some of our KS2 children had the honour of working with local Southall artist, Daryl Stenvoli-Wells at Southall Library.

Tuesday 15 November 2022 Smashing Stereotypes Careers Day Sorry for the late news entry (Mr Feldman forgot to press 'save and publish') but on the 19th October 2022, Dairy Meadow had it's very first 'Smashing Stereotypes' careers afternoon.

Tuesday 15 November 2022 The Dairy Meadow Pantomime "He's behind you!", "Oh no, he isn't!"...

Monday 14 November 2022 Sugar Awareness Week The 14th -21st November is Sugar Awareness Week. I'm sure if we are all being honest, we all like the odd biscuit or cake however, when does too much sugar pose a risk to our health If you're concerned about the amount of added sugar in your diet, why not be Sugar Smart By following some of the tips on the poster below you can make big changes to your health.

Friday 11 November 2022 Elm Class HS2 Trip On Thursday 10th November 2022, our young engineers were able to visit the site of the HS2 tunnelling project at Brakespear Road in Ruislip. This was the culmination of a nearly two year project in which our children were immersed into the world of construction and it's associated jobs in conjunction with SCS Railways (a subsidery of Skanska).

Friday 11 November 2022 Hot Chocolate Friday - PSHE! Our Friday pupil voice sessions go from strength to strength as today Mr Feldman met with 8 of his KS2 friends to discuss the PSHE curriculum.

Friday 11 November 2022 Early Start Ealing Workshops and Groups The Ealing Early Start SEND Inclusion Team offer targeted and specialist support to families of children with additional needs including children with: Social and Communication Differences, Speech and Language Delay, Autism, Down's Syndrome, Hearing and Visual Impairments as well as Complex Health/Medical Needs.

Tuesday 8 November 2022 Frozen Planet II - Live Science Lesson KS2 had an exciting Science opportunity to join a live lesson delivered by BBC Teach! During the live session, pupils were inspired to keep learning about our natural world and the work of scientists and modern-day explorers. The children really enjoyed watching clips from Frozen Planet II and completing mini-investigations during this session.

Friday 4 November 2022 Hot Chocolate Friday - History! It was an absolute pleasure for Mr Feldman and Miss Kaur to sit down on the afternoon of Friday 4th November 2022 to hear about how much our children are enjoying the History curriculum at Dairy Meadow.

Friday 4 November 2022 Ealing Parenting Service - Domestic Abuse The Parenting Team are offering a parenting workshop on Domestic Abuse and the Impact on Children and Young People on Tuesday, 24th January 2023, 10am-12pm via MS Teams

Friday 4 November 2022 Visits to Southall Library It's been lovely to see our children making the most of the resources in their local area by visiting Southall Library. Under the guidance of the head librarian, Surekha, our researchers have been able to explore the wealth of material available to them free of charge! Our friends at the library are always willing to help find books for you, especially ones that can help you with your curriculum learning, support diversity or tick off one of your reading challenge lists.

Tuesday 1 November 2022 Free/Low Cost Meals Please see attached and below details of participating restaurants offering FREE/low cost meals, in light of the cost of living crisis. We appreciate things can be difficult for our families at the moment, so please take advantage where you can.

Tuesday 1 November 2022 Somali Language Parents Workshop - Homework Please find attached information on the Somali Language parenting workshop Helping Your Child with Homework, which will take place on Friday. 11th November 2022 between 10am-12pm via MS Teams. This workshop is suitable for parents/carers of children and young people of all ages.

Tuesday 1 November 2022 Reducing the Impact of Conflict in Parenting Workshop Please find attached information on the Reducing the Impact of Conflict parenting workshop, which will take place on Tuesday 6th December 2022 between 10am-12pm via MS Teams. This workshop is suitable for parents/carers of children and young people of all ages.

Monday 31 October 2022 Dairy Meadow Gave Racism the Red Card! On Friday 21st October 2022 you may have noticed something a little bit different about our children as they came to school! Looking like a fleet of fire engines or a troop of ladybirds, pupils and staff alike donned the colour red to kick out racism.

Monday 31 October 2022 Dedicated Followers of Fashion At the end of September, Oak Class were part of a sustainable fashion workshop: they learnt all about how much waste fast fashion produces and what steps we can take to become conscious fashion consumers!

Monday 31 October 2022 Monster Kat Theatre Visit Year 4 Friday the 21st October 2022 saw our wonderful Year 4's have a visit from the always entertaining Monster Kat theatre company. The purpose of the visit was to run some anti-bullying workshops in which our young people can recognise feelings and develop the skills needed to tackle any problems that require the regulation of emotions. As you can see from the photos below, everyone had an amazing time!

Friday 21 October 2022 October Half Term 2022 - Ealing Activities If you are looking for things to do in and around Ealing with your children this half term, this might give you some ideas!

Friday 21 October 2022 Parents Coffee Morning Every Friday, from 9am-12pm, Three Bridges Primary School will be hosting a FREE course from Ealing Parenting Services. As part of our commitment to strength families and communities in the Southall area, a free inclusive course to help parents and carers raise happy confident children all ages from babies to teen is being provided.

Friday 21 October 2022 Ten out of Ten (Pin) Wednesday 19th October 2022 saw some of our children attend a tenpin bowling tournament at Acton Tenpin. Coach Perry and Mrs Bhambra were 'bowled' over by how our young pin masters have honed their accuracy and took the new experience in their stride.

Tuesday 18 October 2022 Year 3/4 Boys Football at Three Bridges It was a beautiful morning on Tuesday 18th October 2022. Mr Feldman and Mrs Koia took the years 3 and 4 boys into battle in the mighty Southall Cluster at the home of their local rivals Three Bridges.

Friday 14 October 2022 PC McGuigan Visits the Nursery Woop! Woop! It's the sound of the police! Thursday 13th October 2022 saw an exciting visitor come and meet all our wonderful Nursery children. PC McGuigan is one of the school's officers for Ealing. Our junior constables and detectives were able to name parts of the uniform including different types of helmets, a police vest and handcuffs.

Friday 14 October 2022 Maple Class Assembly Heave! Ho! - get into your longships and learn all about one of the most tumultuous times in British history. If you were not up to date on your knowledge of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, you should have come to Maple Class' assembly. Miss Steadman and her brood made their History topic of Invasion come alive in a wonderfully informative presentation. We had special guests such as King Arthur, King Offa, Thor and even evil Loki!

Friday 14 October 2022 We're Bowled Over! Wednesday 12th October 2022 saw some of our children attend the tenpin bowling competition at Acton Ten Pin. None of our children went on STRIKE, there wasn't a SPARE second to be had as they practiced their skills of accuracy and co-ordination.

Tuesday 11 October 2022 Reception Phonics Morning Dust off your Fred fingers and get practising your letter sounds! Miss Geddes and Miss Khan held a fantastic open morning for the Reception parents on Tuesday 11th October 2022.

Tuesday 11 October 2022 Poetry Week at Dairy Meadow To celebrate National Poetry Week, Dairy Meadow have been reflecting on some of their favourite poets and poems from all over the globe. Whether it was Mrs Malik's love of the Brazilian poet Joseph Coelho or Mr Feldman's appreciation of the Swedish national bard Tomas Transtromer, it was wonderful to be able to share all our favourite lyrics on the theme of 'Stepping out into the Environment'.

Monday 3 October 2022 Dairy Meadow's very own Mo Farah! Whilst most of us might have had a lie in on Sunday morning, Sharvi from Marigold Class had already put on her trainers and travelled all the way up to Greenwich Park for the London Marathon. As part of the TCS Mini Marathon our Key Stage 1 elite athlete managed to run an entire mile in record time and won her first (of many) medals.

Monday 3 October 2022 Year 3 and 4 Girls Football Tournament Friday 30th September 2022 saw our Years 3 and 4 girls football team take on all comers at Featherstone High School. Considering it was the first time they had all played together, the record of one win and one draw, out of four games, was an amazing result!

Friday 30 September 2022 Willow Class Assembly The morning of Friday 30th September 2022 saw a packed house in the hall as our first class assembly of the year was delivered with aplomb by Willow Class.

Friday 30 September 2022 Year 5/6 Boys Football Tournament Thursday 29th September 2022, saw our first competitive sport tournament of the year saw our intrepid 5/6 boys football team take part in the borough tournament at Gunnersbury Park Sports Hub. Coach Perry and his assistant Ms Francois saw one of our teams progress to the semi final, which they sadly were defeated in. Clement in Year 6 put in a particularly eye catching performance with four goals across the day.

Friday 30 September 2022 Building Future London Careers Day On Thursday 29th September 2022, Key Stage 2 had the luxury of a facilitated showcase from Primary Futures to gain an insight into the world of construction. Considering all the building work in our local area (GWQ, redevelopment of Southall Station, HS2) our children had the chance to further deepen their knowledge of the building industry and learn more about potential employment opportunities.

Thursday 29 September 2022 Reception's Local Walk On Wednesday 28th September 2022, our Reception classes put on their walking shoes to investigate their local area further. Everyone had a wonderful time walking around in the sunshine and learning about all the local amenities. Hargun in Lily class summed it up best when I asked her what her favourite part of Southall was, "I love the park! I went on the slide". A massive thank you to Miss Geddes, Mrs Lall and Miss Keelson as well as all our lovely parent helpers for making the trip possible.

Wednesday 28 September 2022 Free Come and Sing Day

Monday 26 September 2022 Ealing Sewn Up Challenge Our Year 6 students were able to show off their creativity whilst gaining an insight into the wonderful world of textiles and design. Our young fashionistas were able to work with a variety of experts in the fashion industry to learn about the processes involved in creating but also upcycling old clothes.

Monday 26 September 2022 Featherstone High Visit Dairy Meadow Today our Year 6's were fortunate to have a visit from Mr Sangha, head of Year 7 at Featherstone High School. He told our young people all about the differences between life in primary and secondary school and hopefully allayed some fears about next year.

Friday 16 September 2022 Ealing Wildlife Group Competition Why not spend some time in your local area looking for some amazing animals or insects Even better if you can catch a phenomenal snap on your phone or camera. Who knows, you might win the Ealing Nature Group photography competition. Speak to Mr Feldman for more details.

Friday 16 September 2022 Free Community Bike Rides Make the most of the beautiful early Autumn weather by dusting off your saddle, strapping on your helmet and taking advantage of some of the amazing FREE guided bike rides around Ealing parks. Booking is essential and all details are below.

Friday 15 July 2022 Reception Fashion Show What do the following places have in common New York, Paris, Milan and Southall Give up? Well they're are the fashion capitals of the world!

Friday 15 July 2022 Nursery Teddy Bears Picnic If you go down to the woods today, you'll be in for a big surprise! However if you go into the Nursery playground by the Swift Road gate, there will be an even BIGGER surprise!

Friday 15 July 2022 The BIG Toddle! There was some interesting activity in our playground this morning! Friday 15th July 2022 saw some pirates and princesses complete some laps of the Daily Mile track to raise money for a good cause as well as showing off their Skillsbuilder target of teamwork!

Thursday 14 July 2022 Brunel University visit Year 6 On Monday 11th July 2022, Year 6 had some very special visitors. We were lucky to welcome Gloria Cheng from Brunel University alongside her student ambassador (and engineering student) Sanz. This was a great opportunity for our Year 6's to start thinking about further education, especially as they will have to start thinking abut their GCSE and A Level options in the not too distant future!

Thursday 14 July 2022 Year 5 trip to the British Museum On Wednesday 13th July 2022, Year 5 went to the British Museum to supplement their knowledge of their history topic, Groundbreaking Greeks.

Wednesday 13 July 2022 Let's Go Southall - Summer Activities Let's Go Southall have some amazing activity sessions planned for the summer break. One of the great things about them is that they are free! Have a look at the images below and pop along if you fancy it.

Wednesday 13 July 2022 Let's Leap Summer Holiday Camp

Tuesday 12 July 2022 Reception visit to Odds Farm It wasn't just Old McDonald who was having fun at the farm last week! Lily and Rose Class put on their wellies and got up close and personal with our furry and feathered friends. It wasn't all just looking at cute animals however as our young agriculturalists were put to work. First they had to feed the sheep and goats, then they had to milk the cow and finally they got to ride on the tractor!

Monday 4 July 2022 Hobgoblin Maths Performances Monday 4th July 2022 got off to a mathematical bang for our futureLeonard Euler'sand Ada Lovelace's as the Hobgoblin Theatre Company brought mathematics to life for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.

Monday 4 July 2022 Our Summer Fair What a glorious afternoon Saturday 2nd July was here at Dairy Meadow. The glistening sun shone through the Southall clouds, jazz music permeated the air and the sounds of joy filled Merrick Road and the surrounding streets - after 3 years, the Dairy Meadow Summer Fair was back.

Tuesday 28 June 2022 Year 6 Junior Citizens Trip On Monday 27th June 2022, Oak and Elm class took part in the Ealing Junior Citizens morning. Here they managed to see some our Fundamental British Values come to life (especially Rule of Law) as they met members of the police, fire brigade, ambulance service and TFL.

Friday 24 June 2022 Year 6 Reading Buddies Now SATS are out of the way for our Year 6's, we're putting them to good use by encouraging them to inspire our younger friends with their reading.

Friday 24 June 2022 Moonflower trip to Willow Park Farm On Thursday 23rd June 2022, Moonflower Class put on their wellington boots, breathed in the fresh countryside air and met lots of furry friends at Willow Park Farm!

Friday 10 June 2022 STEMbiotics Workshop Today we were lucky to have a visit from Jack, who works for Hyett Education. He came in to work with our Key Stage 2 children to demonstrate the links between coding and robotics. Our children were able to build and program robots through the creation of an algorithm. They then used an IPad to control the robots movement along a zig zag track. With robots being a key component of work at nearby Heathrow Airport, maybe we have the next generation of engineers in our midst

Wednesday 8 June 2022 Summer Term Library Visits To further our children's skills of research, as well as showcasing what an amazing hobby reading is, all year groups have been able to visit Southall Library this term.

Friday 27 May 2022 Our Jubilee Celebrations Today at Dairy Meadow we celebrated the Queen's platinum jubilee in style! Not only were our children wearing their finest red, white and blue clothes but we also had a quintessentially English garden party! (yes, the crusts of the sandwiches were cut off!).

Wednesday 25 May 2022 Bikeability! This Summer term, our Year 5's have checked their tyres, put on their helmets and are about to be unleashed on to the roads of Southall thanks to the Bikeability scheme.

Tuesday 24 May 2022 Try Golf comes to Dairy Meadow On Tuesday 24th May 2022, some of our students were able to take the first step into becoming the next generation of Rory McIlroy's and Lydia Ko's as they got to grips with the basic skills of golf!

Monday 16 May 2022 Alumni Careers Day Friday 13th May 2022 definitely wasn't an unlucky day for the children at Dairy Meadow as we held our second careers event of the year, our alumni careers day!

Thursday 17 March 2022 Easter Cycling Courses Are you looking for something amazing to do in the Easter holidays that is not only free but good for your health and the environment

Friday 11 March 2022 Water Safety Assemblies This week at Dairy Meadow our children have been learning how to stay safe around water. This was down to Mrs Ali organising a wonderful assembly with the Canal and River Trust.

Thursday 3 March 2022 World Book Day 2022 We are allover the moon to be celebrating World Book Day 2022 at Dairy Meadow. Can you recognise any of your adults in the photo!

Thursday 3 March 2022 KS1 Book Sale As part of our World Book Day celebrations our Key Stage 1 children were able to purchase some nearly new books for the bargain price of 5 for £1!

Monday 28 February 2022 Year 2 Visit Windsor Last week our Year 2 classes visited Windsor Castle as part of their Magnificent Monarchs topic. The children were enthralled at seeing the world's oldest occupied castle and were able to reinforce all the wonderful facts they have learned about monarchy in Britain. Well done to Mrs Sahota for organising such a wonderfully educational visit.

Monday 7 February 2022 Winter Poem Winners Mrs Sahota is pleased to announce that the following children have won the Winter Poem Purple Mash competition. There were so many great entries and our Junior Computing Ambassadors had a really difficult job judging!

Thursday 3 February 2022 Let's Go Out and About - February Half Term

Tuesday 25 January 2022 Dairy Meadow are travel stars! Our PSHE curriculum goes from strength to strength here as we have just been accredited as a TFL bronze award travel star school! This means we have started on our journey to creating a healthier and safer school environment.

Friday 3 December 2021 Nursery Firefighter Visit! We were very fortunate on Friday 3rd December 2021 that Southall fire brigade had time to come and visit our Nursery children. As part of our topic on 'People Who Help Us', our children got to meet some real life firefighters, have a tour of a fire engine and even use the fire hose! Who knows, it might be the first steps in finding our next brave members of the emergency services.

Thursday 2 December 2021 Biodiversity in the Dairy Meadow On Thursday 2nd December 2021, our years 1,2 and 3 children were fortunate enough to have a talk from Natasha Gavin, the parks education officer for Ealing. The purpose of the talk were for our young botanists and zoologists to appreciate the wonderful array of different wildlife that are present within the borough.

Monday 22 November 2021 Prince Charming Spotted at Dairy Meadow! Last week our future stars of stage and screen got a glimpse into what it was like to be a professional actor when M+M Theatre Company came to perform their pantomime, Cinderella.

Friday 19 November 2021 Our girls are BOROUGH CHAMPIONS (again...) On the 18th November 2021 at an overcast Spikes Bridge, our Year 5 and 6 girls football team put on a complete masterclass to win the borough tournament.

Friday 19 November 2021 Children In Need 2021 Thank you to all of our wonderful children and adults who dressed up to celebrate Children In Need 2021.

Monday 15 November 2021 Year 6 WW1 Workshop To commemorate Remembrance Day, Oak and Elm class took part in a workshop entitled Poetry and Poppies. Through this interactive session our soldiers were able to get a deeper understanding of what it was like to be a soldier during the Great War as well as be exposed to some of the famous works of battlefield poets such as Wilfred Owen.

Monday 15 November 2021 Parents Computing Workshop Last week (8th November 2021) saw our computing lead, Mrs Sahota, run a series of workshops for parents highlighting all the amazing online platforms that children have access to at Dairy Meadow (a list can be found here).

Thursday 21 October 2021 Reception Mathematics Morning The morning of Wednesday 21st October 2021 saw Miss Ross deliver an inspiring talk about how to best support your child's mathematical development in Reception. There was a real focus on using objects to support the concept of number as well as some top tips when adding, subtracting and grouping.

Thursday 21 October 2021 Nursery Meet the Police It was an exciting day in the Nursery on Wednesday 20th October as PC's Bal and Terri came to visit.It tied in with their topic 'Superheroes' (learning about 'real life' superheroes) and built on a previous visit from Spiderman!

Tuesday 19 October 2021 Year 5 are tunnelling with HS2! This week Year 5 learnt all about Tunnelling. We looked at the history of tunnelling, where it was done by hand, and compared it to modern day technology using machinery such as the Tunnelling Boring Machine (TBM). We learnt that tunnelling has had an abundance of benefits to society, being cheaper, safer and making travel more direct for the public. The children were astonished that the TBM is around 2000 tonnes which is equivalent to 340 elephants and that it is the size of 1 and a half football pitches! Year 5 were full of questions which were answered very thoroughly by the Engineers of HS2.

Friday 15 October 2021 Year 5 Engineering with HS2 Redwood and Willow Class are currently in the middle of an exciting project with HS2, the provider of a high speed rail network for the whole country. The purpose of the project is for our children to understand the different processes and employment opportunities that can occur within the railway industry.

Tuesday 12 October 2021 Spiderman Visits Early Years! Our superheroes in the Early Years had a surprise visitor when Peter Parker himself (better known as Spiderman) visited their classrooms. Spidey told us he was so excited to hear how the children had been learning about all the people who help them on a day to day basis. As mini-superheroesall of Nursery and Reception classes have been able toshow off their kindness to each other.

Friday 8 October 2021 Year 6 Trip to the RAF Museum Hendon On Thursday 7th October 2021, Elm and Oak Class visited the RAF Museum in Hendon to supplement their Britain at War topic. The purpose of the visit was to find out a little bit more about the people, machinery and politics of the Second World War. Our historians had the opportunity to actually see replicas of the aircraft used in the Battle of Britain as well as experiencing a 'real life' air raid.

Tuesday 5 October 2021 School's Counselling Partnership Coffee Morning A big thank you to all the parents who took time out of their busy morning to come and have a cup of coffee with Violetta and learn about the School's Counselling Partnership (SCP).

Tuesday 28 September 2021 Spark Online Careers Meeting for Year 6 Today Year 6 attended an online careers meeting held by the company Spark. The even was titled 'What Employers Look For in Young People' and the panel consisted of HR/training executives from the automotive, construction, hospitality and technology industries.

Tuesday 14 September 2021 Featherstone High School Visit Year 6 An informative visit from Mr Sangha, Assistant Head at Featherstone High School

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