A happy child is a successful child
Every child is known to every member of staff and this, combined with our emphasis on a holistic education, means that we provide a caring atmosphere which caters for each child’s emotional and social needs as well as providing an excellent academic environment.
Children on average make greater progress in our Juniors than they would in other settings. They are nurtured by our individual approach to every child, regular assessments and tracking of their academic development, opportunities for growth and leadership and the breadth of our curriculum.
Pupils are assessed using PTM (Progress Tests in Maths) and PTE (Progress Tests in English) yearly. This is bench marked and externally validated data in which our children achieve greater than the national average.
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Children in years 1 - 6 at Meoncross achieve significantly higher than national averages in standardised tests in both Maths and English.
Curriculum
An inspiring curriculum
Our Junior curriculum ensures continuity from the Infants, and the emphasis moves further towards the children becoming more independent and reflective learners.
Practical science lessons enable the children to hone the skills of planning, prediction and investigation, as well more formal recording of experiments and results. From Year 5, these lessons take place in the Upper School Science Labs which provides much excitement and further enthusiasm amongst the pupils for this fundamental subject.
From Year 6, Computer Science is started more formally, introducing languages such as 'Scratch' and 'Small Basic' and pupils also experience German and Spanish in addition to the French they have already begun.
Competitive sport begins in the Juniors, with pupils getting the opportunity to play rugby, football, netball, rounders and athletics and swimming on a weekly basis up to and including Year 5.
Thinking Skills and Personal Social and Health Education lessons continue to build on previous learning.
Our Junior classes:
Staff
Benefitting from exceptional teachers and specialisms
Juniors see the continuation of the curriculum delivered by expert Primary teachers in addition to Upper School subject specialists. These include PE, Music, French, German & Spanish, Science, Computer Science, and Performing Arts.
Pupils enjoy many of these subjects in subject specialist classrooms such as the Performing Arts Studio, Music room, 6 acre Sports Field, all weather Astro Pitch and Gym. Specialists teach weekly swimming lessons at Holly Hill Leisure Centre.
Individual Equipment
Learning with their own laptop
We provide pupils in Year 3 and above with their own laptop; which provides them with access to a contiunous educational provision.
We believe that 1:1 devices are powerful tools that augment and transform the learning experience to help them grow and thrive in a fast changing world.
Extra-curricular
Extra-curricular opportunities
Children in our Infants can benefit from our varied and valuable opportunities through our Meoncross Activities Programme (MAP).
Our MAP is delivered in the two following ways:
A range of fun, exciting and interesting extra-curricular activities both at lunchtimes and after school every week.
In addition to these after school and lunchtime clubs, we run 'Passport' activities every Wednesday afternoon for Years 1 - 8. Here we provide enrichment activities that can be linked to a whole school focus or will be bespoke to our Infants learning, whether an art project based on the work of AA Milne, or appreciating a different country and culture.
Wraparound care
Before & After School
We offer Before and After School Club from 7.30am – 6.00pm during term time, available for children aged 2.5 – 11 years.
Little Lagooners Holiday Club is available for school holidays* from 8am – 6.00pm, for children aged 2.5 – 11 years.
*There will be a closure over the Christmas period.
Join us for an Open Morning
At our Open Mornings you will have the opportunity to meet our Head and other key members of staff, and learn more about what a Meoncross education looks like.
Please click below to register to attend our upcoming Open Morning. We can’t wait to meet you!
An education as unique as your child
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4 - 5 yrs old
5 - 7 yrs old
7 - 11 yrs old
11 - 16 yrs old
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