Important Dates:

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 (gymnastics and hockey)

16th November – Odd Socks Day 

4th December – Marlowe Panto Trip – Whole School 

9th December AM and PM – Christmas unwrapped – Year 6 will visit the church in Broadstairs 

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! 

English 

Year 6 have spent this week describing a character from our book: Skellig.  We started the week gathering adjectives to describe the 'man in the garage' and worked hard to create a character description that entertained the reader.  In our punctuation and grammar lessons, the children spent an additional week learning how to identify subordinate conjunctions and write subordinate clauses.  The children were tasked to incorporate these into their character descriptions. Next week in writing, the children will be writing a dream sequence from the book focusing on mood, tone and atmosphere while varying their sentence types. 

Maths 

Year 6 have started their three-week learning of fractions, decimals and percentages.  We started the week looking at fractions of shape and number, then moved on to ordering and comparing fractions.  Next week we will move on to equivalent fractions and adding and subtraction fractions with either the same denominator or different denominators.   

Thematic 

Year 6 have started their new thematic topic this week: How to mind your heart.  They started the week by answering the question: Does your head rule your heart.  The children used their previous knowledge to answer the question.  They then moved on to learning about what is inside our blood, and they worked in groups to make their own blood (don't worry – it's not real!).  The children learnt how our heart functions and then made their own T-shirts showing how our heart and the circulatory system work.  They finished the week watching their year 6 teacher dissect an ox and pig heart so that they could see the different parts of the heart up close. 

Year 6 Team 

6G Helen.Rowland-Hill@Uptonjunior.com   Head of Year 6 / SLT Trust Teaching and Learning Lead

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