Important Dates and information: 

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

- PE is on Tuesdays 

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 

11th December – Christmas Fair and Christmas Jumper Day 

14th December – Winter Disco 

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

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.   

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

Personal Development Day and afternoons this week 

Year 6 have this week covered subjects such as respect and what respect looks like inside and outside of school.  We started our first day back this week reading the book 'What is Everybody did that' and used it to create our own class charters that respect everyone in our class and school.  We spent time returning to our British Values and looked at our Nine Protected Characteristics, what they are and what they mean to us as individuals. 

English 

We have started our new text: Skellig and the children enjoyed reading about Michael and the 'strange man in the garage'.   This week we spent time learning how to write complex sentences using subordinate conjunctions.  We then spent the week gathering vocabulary to describe the outside and the inside of the garage from the book. Next week, Year 6 will spend time describing a new character that's introduced in the text.   

Maths 

This week in Year 6 have returned to dividing, focusing on showing their remainders as decimals.  They ended the week bringing their dividing skills all together to answer a variety of word problems that will enable the children to show their understanding of when to show their reminders as whole numbers, fractions or decimals.  Next week, Year 6 will return to fractions. 

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