Important Dates and information: 

Swimming for Year 6 is on Mondays.  If your child is unable to take part in swimming, please can email your class teacher.  Our emails are at the bottom of this blog.  Thank you. 

-PE is on Tuesdays 

2nd November – Staff Development day, children not in school 

2nd November – Secondary School Application Deadline 

3rd November – School begins for children at the usual time.  Parent Teacher Consultations will take part on this day.  Upton will close at 1pm for children. 

4th November  – Parent Teacher Consultations 3:15 – 6:15 

6th November – Community Choir to visit Chartwell House  

6th November – Upton Firework night 

11th November – Remembrance Day 

13th November – Children in Need – non-school uniform 

16th November – Odd Socks Day 

4th December – Marlowe Theatre Trip – Whole School 

9th December AM and PM – Christmas Unwrapped – Year 6 to attend Queen's Road Baptist Church in Broadstairs.

11th December – Christmas Fair and Christmas Jumper Day 

14th December – Winter Disco 

16th December – Year 6 Party – 1:15 – 3pm

18th December – School closes at 2pm 

Outside play 

At Upton, play is incredibly important and we want our children to be able to experience every part of our outdoor provision.  Please can we ask that children come to school with named wellies that they can leave at school, alongside a waterproof jacket.  Our children are outside in all weathers every day. 

Usernames and passwords 

TTRS and AR levels are placed on a sticker on / inside their reading records 

Home Learning 

At Upton, our expectation for home learning is to read 3 times a week at home.  We would like the children to bring their signed reading records into school daily so that these can be signed by their class teacher.  Reading is incredibly important, especially as we get the children ready for the next stage of their education.  We also ask that the children practise times tables regularly at home.   

English 

This week, Year 6 spent their writing lessons writing their own newspaper report about the character Zoe being reunited with her parents.  The children learnt about a variety of newspapers and places that we can find news.  We focused our writing skills on writing an engaging newspaper headline, a hook that included the 5Ws, direct and indirect speech as well as a closing summary of what the report was about.   

Maths 

This week in Year 6 has been all about division.  We have spent time dividing with no remainders and then moving on to dividing, showing whole number remainders and showing remainders as a fraction.   

Thank you for your support in Term 1. Please contact us if you have any questions, worries or to tell us of any success that your child experiences outside of school!  

Year 6 Team 

6G Helen.Rowland-Hill@Uptonjunior.com   

6G Fran.Pellett@Uptonjunior.com 

6R Jordanne.Chalmers@Uptonjunior.com 

6B Natalie.Phillips@Uptonjunior.com 

6Y Rebekah.Crowe-White@Uptonjunior.com 

Year 6 Learning Group – Chris.Rowe@Uptonjunior.com