Metheringham Primary School

Foundation Stage In the Foundation stage, the children have learnt all about body parts. There was lots of fun and laughter when Miss Storr asked the children to read and place sticky labels on parts of their friend's body. The children then explored the enrichment in the environment and made pasta bodies, autumnal faces and painted self-portraits. Lovely vocabulary and scientific language was oozing out of the children.

Key Stage One This week, Key Stage One have been inspired by a cookery masterclass with Mrs Price. Under her instruction, KS1 baked apple cake made with the apples picked from our apple tree in school. Then we wrote some wonderful, detailed instructions to teach others how to make it themselves. The children and teachers were proud of the super writing produced.

Lower Key Stage Two Salut! This week, LKS2 have enjoyed a new English text called 'Little Red'. They used props to act out the story and learnt phrases and vocabulary from the text. They all 'j'adore' learning French and hopefully your child can now tell you what food they 'j'adore'. In maths, Year 3 have continued to develop their place value knowledge, while Year 4 have been exploring number lines to 10000. The children were full of 'bright ideas' and were 'buzzing' whilst exploring circuits in their Science lesson this week.

Upper Key Stage Two In UKS2, the children have continued their Alma writing. They have become journalists, conducted interviews and are currently writing the final report for 'the missing child'. They have used both formal and informal language, direct and indirect speech as well as fantastic vocabulary. In history, they have learnt more about the crimes and punishments in the Roman period. The children found some of the punishments quite gruesome and fascinating all at the same time. None of them wanted to be put into a bag of snakes and thrown into the river!!!

210 pupils have maintained 100% attendance in the first four weeks of the school year.

Current whole school attendance is 98%.

Our attendance figures for week 3 were as follows. Mrs Wilcox and Mrs Smith-Wood's class took the top spot!

On Thursday 6th October, we will be celebrating National Poetry Day in school with a range of poetry related experiences. We will be using the text 'The Lost Words' to inspire classes across the school and create a love of poetry.

As well as sharing lots of wonderful poems in school, we will be encouraging our children to enter the national 'Lost Words' competition. Children will be given the opportunity to write their own acrostic poems in school based on this beautiful poetry book, and Teachers will enter the best ones into the competition. If you want to get involved with National Poetry Day at home, please check out the National Poetry Day website where you will find lots of poems and activities to get involved in. We would love to see what you get up to on Seesaw or Twitter! National Poetry Day - the UK’s biggest mass-participation celebration of poetry