Metheringham Primary School

Foundation Stage In the Foundation stage, the children have been inspired by the story 'Elmer'. They have thoroughly enjoyed learning about Elmer's cheerful personality. The children were super creative and painted the character‘s squares using lots of artistic and fine motor skills. Lots of new language and vocabulary has been used because of such a lovely and enjoyable story.

Key Stage One This week, KS1 have been exploring goals and aims for the future in PSHE. They ordered pictures to show how important things are to them. It was really interesting to see everyone's different ideas. At the end of the lesson, the children discussed the skills they would like to develop as they get older.

Lower Key Stage Two It has been another fun-filled, busy week in LKS2. In Science, pupils have investigated what materials are conductors of electricity and will light up a light bulb. In English, they are so proud of their diary writing as Little Red. They have used all of the English skills they have learned over the past few weeks to make their writing successful! In Geography, the children have been looking at where they live in relation to the wider world and got very creative with circles!! In Reading Comprehension, they are exploring the book 'Inside the Villains' and have loved delving inside the big, bad wolf. They even spotted Grandma and the three little pigs inside his 'misery guts!'

Upper Key Stage Two In maths this week, the Year 6 children have worked really hard to understand the method of long division. We have been really impressed with their resilience and determination to master the method! This term, they have been exploring databases and how they can store and gather information. This has been really helpful in helping our children use computers in a practical real-world way. The children are continuing with their RE learning, looking at Hinduism and Islam – this week saw them learning about the belief of ‘Karma’ within Hinduism. Our PE lesson saw UKS2 take part in their end of term house competitions.

173 pupils have maintained 100% attendance in the first six weeks of the school year.

Current whole school attendance is 97%.

Our attendance figures for week 5 were as follows. Well done Miss Storr's Class, you had the highest percentage in the whole school!

Meet Mr Edwards our Co-Computing Leader

Hello everyone!

I am Mr Edwards. Last year, I had the pleasure of being a supply teacher at Metheringham and I never wanted to leave. I am now the year 5 teacher in school and I am loving every day, working with fantastic people. I have been teaching for 3 years now and I am so glad that I changed career.

Aside from being the year 5 teacher, I am also the co-computing subject leader. I love to use technology to enhance our learning experiences in school. It is important that the children understand the ever-changing technological world around. Prior to being a teacher, I worked as a Business Systems Analyst, which involved me working with various computing systems and analysing data on a regular basis….this comes in handy when we are doing lots of assessments in school.

When I am not in the school, I am spending my time with my wife, daughter and my dog (Machu). We love to watch movies (with home-made popcorn), play Nintendo and go for walks. To me, the most important thing is family and friends.

In my spare time, I enjoy drawing and trying to improve my Spanish. I find drawing a good hobby as it helps me to relax and wind down after a busy week. I also find that learning languages is a really interesting way to get to know other cultures and ways of life.

Please come and introduce yourself if you see me around.