Metheringham Primary School

Foundation Stage In the Foundation stage, the children have been learning about Harvest and which foods can be harvested by farmers. They have learnt that Christians celebrate Harvest by giving donations of food to people who need it.

Key Stage One This week, KS1 have had the opportunity to read lots of funny poems. The children have enjoyed reading silly words and creating their own poetry. In science, they have been talking about the weather and discussing the weather patterns in our country. As you can imagine, this was a very interesting conversation!

Lower Key Stage Two This week LKS2 have learned what region they live in and what counties surround Lincolnshire. They have continued to explore electricity in Science and have investigated what effect a switch has in a circuit. The children were very 'switched on!' They also started branching out with computing skills, by exploring branching databases. On Thursday, they loved reading lots of poetry and writing acrostic poems about the environment to celebrate National Poetry Day.

Upper Key Stage Two In UKS2, the children have started a new literary text – ‘The Lost Thing’ by Shaun Tan. The Lost Thing is a humourous story about a boy who discovers a bizarre-looking creature while out collecting bottle-tops at the beach. Whilst exploring this intriguing text, the children have been looking at the theme running through this narrative, whilst developing their simple, compound and complex sentences; developing rich vocabulary to the end of writing a setting description. Décrivons-nous! (Remember me!) In French, the children have been using adjectives to describe their features, more specifically, hair and eyes. This week, the world of Science has taken them into the realms of investigating how to make a lightbulb brighter or motor faster – this will be further developed when they apply their learning into making more complex circuits.

194 pupils have maintained 100% attendance in the first five weeks of the school year.

Current whole school attendance is 98%.

Our attendance figures for week 4 were as follows. A huge well done to Mrs Jones class for smashing 100% last week!

If an adult has concerns about the welfare of any child, then they have the responsibility to call Children's Customer Services on 01522 782111. Further advice on this can be obtained from the school's Designated Safeguarding Officers (Mrs Freeman, Mrs McMenemie and Mrs Duggin).

We have recently reviewed our Homework Policy which is available to read on our website. Please find the expectations for each year group below:

Our Early Years and Key Stage One Pupils and staff are already planning ahead to our infant nativity. Please find dates and times below. We would like to share these now so you have time to book time off work and to make you aware that we will not be having evening performances.