Metheringham Primary School

Foundation Stage In the Foundation stage, the children have started their new term with the new topic 'Oh I do like to be beside the seaside'. In maths, they have had lots of practical learning opportunities. They have used mirrors and tens frames to find and show doubles.

Key Stage One The Year 1’s have been absolute super stars this week! As part of assessment week, we have been carrying out the national phonics screening as well as lots of other quizzes. They have shown our school values of determination and resilience – brilliant! Our new phonics books have definitely helped develop their reading skills. There has been more use of manipulatives in Year 2, the children have made arrays to support them with their multiplication and division facts. It's awesome to see children so active, engaged and using lots of thinking skills when working practically.

Lower Key Stage Two In the last week of term LKS2 had a busy time practicing for sports day. They also printed their Viking symbols using the stamps they created. This week, LKS2 have been fantastic at maintaining concentration and stamina to complete a challenging assessment week. Year 4 have created some awesome times tables board games. Which game would you like to play?

Upper Key Stage Two This week, UKS2 have been busy sewing! We are really proud of the children - they have shown great patience and resilience! We were really impressed with their skills - they have mastered new types of stitches as well as designing and planning a felt phone/sunglasses/pencil case. We can't wait to see the final products!

Choir On Thursday, the KS2 choir took centre stage at the end of the school day and performed 3 Jubilee songs to parents and carers as they collected their children. It was such a joy to see the smiles on everyone's faces. Here's to the Queen!

Every child from Year 2 upwards has a TTRockstars account which can be accessed in school or at home via the website TTRockstars

Each issue we will list the latest leader board for Times Tables Rockstars. To get on the leader board, you need to play 'studio' on TTRockstars and you need to play at least ten times.

Well done to this week's top ten. Let the race to the top for Term 6 commence!

Below are the attendance figures for the whole of Term 5. We had an amazing 133 pupils who achieved 100% attendance in Term 5. We also have 23 pupils who are still on track to reach 100% attendance for the whole academic year.

Miss McKenzie has stepped down from her role as Deputy Headteacher. She will continue in her teaching role as normal until the end of Term 6 and then she will be reducing her working week to four days. From next year, Miss McKenzie will have a two day teaching role and she will also support across the school with interventions for two days. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Miss McKenzie for the support she has given to the school leadership team and to school improvement during her time as Deputy Headteacher. Mrs Duggin will continue in her role as Interim Deputy Headteacher until she starts her co-headship in the next academic year. We will be advertising internally for a Deputy Headteacher for the next academic year and we will keep you updated on the outcome of this.

Mrs Wilcox has requested to reduce her working week to three days from September. Mrs Smith-Wood has successfully been appointed as a class teacher and will work in a job share with Mrs Wilcox during the next academic year.

We have made three full-time teacher appointments for the next academic year. We would like to congratulate Mr Edwards, Miss Pearson and Miss Houldershaw on their appointments and welcome them to Team Green.