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  • 23/04/24

    On Track With Rail Safety

    The importance of being safe on the railway is a crucial lessons learnt by children from Upton Juniors in Broadstairs. A Year 5 group discovered how a busy travel hub operates when they took part in workshops at the Travel Safe and Travel Smart centre at Margate train station. Run by Netwo...
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  • 23/04/24

    Vital Water Safety Message

    Have fun and stay safe at the seaside – that is the clear and simple message for children at Upton Junior School in Broadstairs. In a pre-summer talk representatives from the RNLI said that while Thanet has miles of award-winning safe beaches, it is important to understand simple safety rul...
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  • 23/04/24

    Upton’s Biathlon Heroes

    Young athletes from Upton Juniors in Broadstairs are among the best in the country. They have performed with grit and determination in the national biathlon finals for the elite competition in Bath. Nine Upton children made it through the qualifiers at the start of the year, with five opting t...
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  • 15/04/24

    Upton Footballers Take First Place in First Tournament

    We are the champions – Upton’s team is celebrating after winning the Football Futures Schools Tournament in Whitstable. It is the first time any school from Thanet has been invited to enter the event for children in the Year 4 age group. In the group stage Upton bagged an impressiv...
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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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Edge End Road
Broadstairs
Kent
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