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  • 28/03/24

    Home Learning Supports Rome Learning

    Home learning became Roman learning for children at Upton Juniors in Broadstairs. As part of their term-long Revolutionary Romans topic, the Year 3 group supported their classroom learning with tasks to complete at home. Head of Year 3 Katie Vary explained: “The tasks are designed to cap...
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  • 27/03/24

    Viking Academy Trust News Pupils’ Passionate Public Speaking Challenge

    "If I ruled the world, the first thing I would do would be to....” was the thought-provoking and challenging theme that children explored in the annual Viking Academy Trust public speaking competition. The theme tested pupils at each of the Trust schools – Upton Junior, Chilton P...
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  • 22/03/24

    Odds On Success for Charity at Upton

    It was an odds on winner when Upton Juniors School in Broadstairs took part in its latest charity awareness event. Children collectively put their best feet forward to recognise and support World Down’s Syndrome Day (March 21) by celebrating the importance of difference and being unique, an...
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  • 20/03/24

    Upton Runners Beat The Weather

    When soggy conditions meant the Thanet primary cross country races were cancelled at Quex Park in Birchington, Team Upton still held their own championships on their school field. The inter-school event was cancelled because the very wet surface around the running area meant parking for vehic...
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  • 20/03/24

    Historic Innovations Spark Interest for Upton Children

    A journey from the Golden Age of Islam to the innovation of electricity was a bright learning spark for children at Upton Juniors in Broadstairs. The Year 4 group began their adventure exploring the development of scholars with their new discoveries in the worlds of Science and Maths in particula...
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  • 20/03/24

    Language Leaders Inspire Upton Pupils

    Young children at Upton Juniors in Broadstairs are being inspired to learn basic French and Spanish with support from older pupils from Charles Dickens School. The Year 3B and 3G classes welcomed eleven Year 8 children who are working on the Language Leaders programme that is designed to help stu...
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  • 15/03/24

    Upton Sees Red for Charity

    A red tide of colour swept through Upton Juniors in Broadstairs in support of the annual Comic Relief charity. Children and staff followed the national organisers’ Red To Toe theme to the letter with clothes in many shades and styles on display in classrooms, corridors and on the playing fi...
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  • 12/03/24

    Upton’s Walk on the Word Side

    Enthusiastic readers took a walk on the word side at Upton Juniors in Broadstairs. It was all part of a series of vocabulary parades held as part of their World Book Day activities where pupils from all groups took part in a novel way of enhancing their literacy learning. The children were inv...
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  • 26/02/24

    Health and Safety Lessons for Life at Upton

    The importance of health and safety is the firm focus of children at Upton Juniors in Broadstairs. Each class learnt about an element of first aid, with some year groups learning about the steps to prevent from choking and breathing problems with asthma to water and road safety. Pupils rea...
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  • 26/02/24

    Discovering Anglo Saxon Life

    A hands-on fun way to explore different areas of Anglo-Saxon life has been enjoyed by children at Upton Juniors in Broadstaiirs. The Year 5 group focussed on a variety of aspects of how the ancient civilisation lived including diet and food, craftsmanship and jewellery. Further activities...
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  • 26/02/24

    Cooking Up A Healthy Treat at Upton

    Young chefs at Upton Juniors in Broadstairs are firm believers in creating tasty and nutritious dishes. As part of the Year 6 topic How To Mind Your Heart, the culinary creatives headed to the kitchen, donned aprons and set to work. Throughout the project, children spent time researching seaso...
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  • 26/02/24

    A Learning Eruption at Upton

    Cracking the Earth’s Core is the intriguing title for the latest learning adventure for children at Upton Juniors in Broadstairs. The Year 4 group investigated what causes earthquakes and how volcanoes emerge from the ground and what makes them erupt. The whole topic has been focused aro...
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Broadstairs
Kent
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