Metheringham Primary School

Foundation Stage Foundation Stage children have been learning to write sentences about the story of Polar Bear Polar Bear What do you hear? They have learnt how to include capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.  

Key Stage One Key Stage One have been busy practising their loud voices and beautiful singing in preparation for our Christmas Nativity performances next week. We can't wait to have an audience of proud families and friends. We have also been planning and beginning to write our own warning stories in English. We hope to finish these and share next week. 

Lower Key Stage Two LKS2 have been exploring the wordless picture book ‘Journey’ this week. We have traveled across the playground visiting different lands using our imagination. Year 3 and 4 have continued to develop their times tables knowledge with a focus in the 2,5 and 10 in year 3 and the 11 and 12 times table in year 4.We have enjoyed making our Christmas calendars thinking carefully about all the seasons. We hope you all like them too. In science, we have continued our forces learning by further exploring magnetism and compasses. There has been some clowning around in this week's PE dance lessons, where we have taken on the role of clowns to create short sequences to add to our Greatest Showman routines. Finally, we have begun to get festive by decorating our classrooms and enjoying our annual Christmas Fayre! 

Upper Key Stage Two In upper KS2, we have been putting the final touches on our anti-bullying poster in our English lessons and some of the children have even started writing their final drafts. The children have great knowledge of what bullying is and how we can make our school a great place to be. 

In our computing lessons, we have started to look at vector diagrams that are created on the computer by combining several shapes to create a new image. We have been using squares and circles to create images of owls, cars and pigs. The children are finding this useful as they are using their skills of copying, pasting and reshaping to create these new images. Our PE lessons are still a place of joy where our children are able to express themselves through dance. The children have been developing their dance routines further to create a dance based on Theseus and the Minotaur, which we have been learning as part of our Greek theme this term. 

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

Last years whole school attendance figure was 95.15%

Current whole school attendance is 96.19%

Our attendance figures for week 5 of term 2 are as follows:

Well done to our orange classes for keeping their attendance levels high this week. 

These latenesses range from 5 minutes late to 75 minutes late. This has a huge impact on classroom teachers, office staff, pupils in class and the child that is late. Please help us to reduce lateness.

Well done everyone :-)

Well done everyone! You are working so hard :-)

We are excited to share with you the incredible experience our Year 5/6 class had during our recent Greek Experience Day. It was a day filled with learning, laughter, and a deep dive into the rich history and culture of ancient Greece.  Our amazing visitor, "Euripedes,"  set the stage for our journey back in time. The children were captivated by tales of ancient Greek gods and goddesses, warfare and heroic adventures. The highlight of the day was our interactive workshops. Classes rotated through various stations, each offering a unique hands-on experience. From working with tessellating shapes, to board games and quizzes, to discovering warfare and then participating in a mini Olympics competing against the Spartans, Athenians and the Corinthians. It truly was a memorable experience. 

Our first winner, on the first day in December, was pulled out by one of our Reading Ambassadors. The winner was Ruby! What a fantastic story. We will continue to pick our winners each day in December.

There is another chance to earn a raffle ticket next week. Read your book 5 times and please make sure an adult has signed your diary each time to be in with a chance.

Our Christmas postbox  will be outside the library and in the KS1 corridor from Monday. If you would like to write Christmas Cards for your class, please see Seesaw for a list of first names. Please ensure the class name is on each envelope, this will help our little elves with  their deliveries.