Welcome to issue 130 of our school newsletter. Don't forget to follow us on Instagram for regular updates on achievements, class news and school updates.
Coming up in this issue:
Learning updates
Attendance
This Week's Instagram Posts
Upcoming events
The gift of a book
Notices
Young Voices
Children's Mental Health Week
JRSO Update
School Council Update
Lets Talk Rubbish
Foundation Stage Foundation Stage have completed their first RSPB challenge of searching for signs of Winter.
Key Stage One We have had another fantastic week in KS1! The children enjoyed a fabulous online author visit from Lucy Walters, where we joined storyteller Lucy to find out how the dragons work together to find their way home. We also took part in an amazing workshop with the Waste Busters, who taught us all about the 3 Rs and what we can put into our bins at home. We have also started designing our own minibeast habitats and are very excited to make them next week!
Lower Key Stage Two Last week, Year 4 took part in a multi-skills sports event at Nocton. The children showed great enthusiasm and were fantastic at encouraging one another throughout the day. They had the opportunity to try a range of activities, including basketball, football, curling and frisbee. Points were awarded for each activity and added together at the end. Well done to the Eagles for achieving the overall win!
In our science lessons, we have been learning how to group and classify animals. We have used Venn and Carroll diagrams to organise living things based on their different characteristics. In history, we have been role-playing as Alfred the Great and making important decisions about how to deal with the invading Vikings and create peace. In computing we are still very much enjoying creating out animations. The children are showing a real flare for this and we can't wait to view the end results.
Upper Key Stage Two In English, our Talk for Writing unit is almost complete and the children have been busy planning and writing their own independent pieces. A key focus has been using speech to move the action forward, and it has been wonderful to see how confidently they are applying this in their writing. In maths, the children are working really hard to be methodical and accurate with long multiplication and algebra. On Tuesday, we welcomed members of Lincolnshire County Council into school to deliver WASTE BUSTER workshops to the whole school, and the UKS2 children thoroughly enjoyed the session and activities. The programme aims to teach children the importance of looking after our environment, the three R/s (reduce, reuse, recycle), Right Thing Right Bin and an understanding of what happens to our rubbish. Midweek also saw a number of our pupils take part in the Young Voices event – lots of smiley but very tired faces afterwards! It’s certainly been another full-on week for our Team Green pupils, and I’m sure the weekend will be very welcomed.
76 pupils have maintained 100% attendance so far this academic year.
Last years whole school attendance figure was 96.4%
Current whole school attendance is 96.3%
Our attendance figures for this week are as follows:
WC 2nd February- National Storytelling Week
Tuesday 3rd February- EYFS Train Station visit
Advanced Notice
WC 9th February- Children's Mental Health Week
Monday 9th February- online safety workshops
Tuesday 10th February- safer internet day
Wednesday 11th February- Y6 SATs and Kingswood Meeting
Friday 13th February- Non-Uniform of CMHW
Friday 13th February- Last Day of Term 3
If you would like to gift a book to school for a special occasion or 'just because', please see our Amazon Wishlist for some ideas. All books donated are marked with a special 'gifted by...' message and added to our library.
Our very own Evelyn is staring in Leadenham's Performance of The Little Mermaid. Give her a wave if you attend. Well done, Evelyn.
🌟 Young Voices 2026 🌟
From singing sea shanties to Wicked medleys, dancing to 90s hip-hop to disco classics—what a school trip! We created memories that will last a lifetime.
We had an unforgettable Wednesday night in Sheffield, full of enjoyment, inspirational acts, confidence, and lots of singing and dancing too.
Same time next year, Metheringham??
Children's Mental Health week runs from 9th - 13th February. Our wonderful Happy and Healthy Ambassadors have been busy planning a super week to incorporate extra activities across the school. They are busy preparing a whole school assembly to launch this and have planned some lovely activities for the children to take part in. The theme this year is: This is my place- Belonging.
On Friday 13th February, we will be having a non-uniform day where the children are encouraged to wear their favourite outfit. Please ensure that what they pick to wear is safe and suitable for school. If you are able to, we will be collecting donations via Parentpay for the Pets as Therapy Charity.
The JRSOs have been busy this week gathering pupil voice to help them plan their next assembly. They will meet again next week to put their assembly together. We are extremely proud of their commitment to their Little Leader role.
The School Council meet weekly and this week, they discussed their topic up for debate when some of our governors visit next week to see a full meeting in progress. It is such a joy to see their confidence developing as the year progresses and they make themselves and their ideas heard.
This week, we took part in a “Let’s Talk Rubbish” workshop. We learned about the importance of the three Rs: reduce, reuse and recycle. We discussed how reducing waste means using less, reusing items means finding new ways to use things instead of throwing them away, and recycling means turning old materials into new products. We also learned which items are recyclable and which are non-recyclable.
We discussed the four types of bins available: the black bin for general waste, the purple bin for clean cardboard and paper, the green-lidded bin for recycling, and the new food waste bin for food items and scraps such as plate scrapings, peelings, egg shells and tea bags.
After that, we completed a quiz to test what we could remember. To finish, we took part in a challenge where we had to place different items into the correct coloured bins.
