Posted on: 16/12/2019Upton Visit to ChristchurchOn Friday 13th December, our whole school visited Christchurch to celebrate the approach of Christmas, to sing together and to hear the brilliant Upton choir singing. Thank you to Reverend Wyatt and his team for welcoming us all. Read more
Posted on: 12/12/2019'ZooLab' comes to Year 3Bringing Learning to Life! 'It was a fun workshop and we got the chance to hold all the animals except the tarantula because we found out that it's body didn't have very good protection and if it fell onto the floor, it's body could split open and die. Our favourite bit was when the frog escaped and started to jump around the table. Tyler had to catch it quickly and we all screamed!' It Read more
Posted on: 29/11/2019Upton Science WeekWe recently held another successful Science Week with lots of new investigations and an exciting show for children and parents. A great week for us all! Read more
Posted on: 27/11/2019Parent WorkshopsParent Workshops: Supporting children at home. This term we have held several workshops for parents focussing on how to support your child when learning at home. The first workshops were aimed at parents of children in KS1 and focussed on how parents can support reading through phonics. We looked at how we can apply phonics during reading sessions and how we can play games with words to help children build up their vocabulary banks. We have also offered some advive around supporting behaviour and attitudes at home, considering some strategies to support children when, from time to time, they may struggle. We are keen to run future sessions with parents and children together to give everyone a chance to apply the skills covered and have several future events already planned. We have also surveyed the parent community and will be using this valuable feedback to plan our future outreach.Read more
