Metheringham Primary School

Foundation Stage This week the Reception children have had the opportunity to explore different vegetables.  They loved the large pumpkins - especially using their motor skills to cut, scoop and chop. 

Key Stage One Miss Pearson and Ms Vrettos' classes have been enjoying the story, The Day the Crayons Quit and were visited by Red Crayon on Monday. They heard all about the grumbles of the crayons from the story and it has inspired some super writing.🖍 In art, all KS1 children have been very busy printing their portraits using a polystyrene tile and printing inks. We can't wait to have them all finished. 

Lower Key Stage Two This week, year 3 and 4 have been learning how to take a 'chip shot' in golf.  It looks like there might be some budding Tiger Woods amongst them! The children have been enjoying the English writing, where they have been planning and creating their own suspense story openers. The children have had more opportunities to show off their drama skills; becoming baby owls and large winged creatures. The maths focuses this week in year 3 has been adding 1's and 10's to two- and three-digit numbers; noticing the exchange in value when adding more than nine.  Year 4 have been working on adding four-digit numbers. The children showcased their learning in history, creating and presenting their knowledge about the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings to others. 

Upper Key Stage Two This week in UKS2, our English continued to focus on Odysseus and his adventures. The children were tasked with rewriting parts of the story in the own words. The pieces they produced were absolutely amazing. In our maths lessons, Year 5 have been working hard on their times tables knowledge and fractions. Year 6 have been mastering the skill of adding and subtracting fractions, some with mixed numbers. In history, we have continued to look at our topic of ancient Greece, where the children have been learning the time line of the period and we were fortunate to have some Greek objects loaned to us from The Collection in Lincoln. In Science, we have been looking at water resistance and how that is similar to air resistance. Next week, we will be performing an experiment using plasticine and dropping it into water to see what happens if we use different shapes.

141 pupils have maintained 100% attendance so far this academic year. 

Last years whole school attendance figure was 95.15%

Current whole school attendance is 95.38%

Our attendance figures for week 6 of term 1 are as follows:

Well done to Year 2! A great week for attendance :-)

Amendment to Lincolnshire’s Fixed Penalty Notice, Code of Conduct Dear Parents and Carers

We have been notified of a change to the Lincolnshire Fixed Penalty Notice, Code of Conduct. In line with our attendance policy, holidays in term time will not be granted unless it is deemed an exceptional circumstance. The procedure for making a request has not changed, all families must submit a leave of absence request in writing, using the standard school form which is available on the school website and from the office. A decision will be given in writing, if this is unauthorised and the family choose to take the holiday anyway the school may advise the Local Authority to issue a fixed penalty notice. 

In accordance with the Lincolnshire Fixed Penalty Notice, Code of Conduct, all holidays that are not deemed to be exceptional circumstances may result in the school requesting the Local Authority to issue a Fixed Penalty Notice, for a holiday taken during term time. If you take a term time holiday without submitting a leave of absence request, and we have sufficient evidence, a request for a Fixed Penalty Notice may be made.

Well done Lydia, you rock!