Metheringham Primary School

Foundation Stage In Early Years we have been busy making our own vehicles.  We looked carefully at the features of a jeep and used recycled items to create our own design.  Some of use even put on windscreen wipers! 

Key Stage One In KS1 we have been learning about life cycles.  The children are all enjoying using scientific language and applying their knowledge of our wonderful world.  There have been some super discussions about how babies develop into toddlers and how many skills they have to learn before they start school. 

Lower Key Stage Two Year 3 and 4 have had an exciting week of discovery.  In science, the children have been investigating how sound is created in different instruments from around the world. A very noisy investigation! Excitingly, Geography has been explosive this week as the children have been creating volcanoes to learn how pressure reacts when it is released from the earth.  In Maths, year 3 have been focusing on equivalent lengths whilst year 4 have been extending their knowledge on division.   Finally, the children have been practising their persuasive skills in English, writing speeches in which they have attempted to persuade teachers to introduce a range of ideas into daily life.  Pizza every day at school is going to take much more persuasion!   

Upper Key Stage Two This week we have started a new topic in English, as we look at Floodland by Marcus Sedwick as our stimulus. The children are really enjoying the start of this book and are curious to see what happens. We have been making predictions and exploring the image from inside the cover. In Year 4/5 our maths focus has now moved to fractions, which will rely on the childrens multiplications and division skills. In PE, we are coming to the end of Rugby and Gymnastics. In Gymnastics the children have been creating group routines involving balancing. They have come up with some incredible routines and balances which they performed in front of the rest of the class.

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

145 pupils have maintained 100% attendance so far this term.

Last years whole school attendance figure was 95.15%

Current whole school attendance is 95.58%

Our attendance figures this week are as follows:

Well done to Mrs Fulbrooke's Class! We wish all of our poorly children better and hope for a better week of attendance next week :-)

These latenesses range from 8 minutes late to 110 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.

A great week for our top ten spellers! 

Please find some online safety information below. You can also access our latest online safety newsletter on our school website: Click Here 

AI and online safety

We have received quite a few concerning reports regarding inappropriate, oversexualised and abusive material on AI Chat Apps. We have created the attached factsheet to be shared with parents. Whilst AI can be a really creative tool and has many benefits that will change how we use the internet it is important parents are aware that safety features have not caught up with all available apps and they therefore need to be checked by an adult and monitored in order to avoid harmful content being seen by children and young people.

Kathryn Smith, Community Safety Strategy Coordinator Prevention Education

The JRSO's (Junior Road Safety Officers)  are working hard to find out how children come to school, so they can raise awareness on the healthier ways to travel.  They have collated evidence from all classes and created these charts.  Their next project for after half term is,

'Be Bright, Be Seen.'