Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Community Carols

  Wed 16 Dec 2015
  Congratulations to our Infant School Choir who sang recently at the Upton Community Carol evening by the clock tower.  They were joined by the Junior School Choir, Wareham Town Band and Jean de Garis for a celebration of Jesus' birth.  It was the biggest ever turn out from the community and whole event had some extra Christmas 'sprinkle' when Father Christmas arrived during the second verse of Away in a Manger.  Afterwards everyone headed to the Scout Hut for some well-earned mince pies.

• Choir at Waypoints Care Home

  Tue 08 Dec 2015
  Last week our some of our Reception and Year One Musical Fun children performed a selection of Christmas songs to the residents of Waypoints Care Home.  Congratulations to everyone who took part and to Mrs Gdesis and Mrs Weaver for organising the event.

  

• Dorset Search Dogs

  Mon 07 Dec 2015
  Recently the Dorset Search Dogs team visited us for an assembly at the school.  They are our chosen School Charity of the year and as part of this process they organised a competition to design a car sticker.  Finlay in Year Two was the winner and he was presented with a framed copy of his design.  This year we have has an Indian Festival, the Great Upton Bake Off and an Art Show to help raise money to buy equipment such as torches and radios which are used when the team search, alongside the police, for missing people.

  

• Christmas Fair Fun

  Thu 03 Dec 2015

  Ho! Ho! Ho!

   

  Christmas officially started today at Upton Infant School as we held our Christmas Fair this afternoon. The school was transformed into a Winter Wonderland, with seasonal stalls and activities taking place in every classroom.

   

  We ho-ho-hope everyone enjoyed themselves - thank you to all the parents for supporting this event and for the super work of the PSA and staff in putting on a great fair.

   

   

  

• Rockin' Robin's Advent Trail

  Fri 27 Nov 2015

   

  On each school day in December, Rockin’ Robin will be ‘tweeting’ the location around school of his secret advent door. Behind the door will be a Christmas scene and a Christmas clue word. When all of the Christmas words are written in the puzzle grid below, it will spell out a secret message. All children who give a completed puzzle grid to their teacher will receive a special advent treat. Good Luck, but shh – keep it secret!

   

   

  

• Poetry Competition

  Tue 24 Nov 2015
  Three of our pupils recently took part in the finals of the Upton in Bloom Poetry Competition.  Mia Gridley, Ashton Bridgeman and Georgina Jalie had been selected as winners from the Infant School to compete against pupils from Upton Juniors and the Yarrells.  Despite being the youngest competitors all three of our representatives performed their poems with confidence and proudly showed off their decorated 'best' copy.  We all enjoyed the homemade cakes afterwards!

  

• Children in Need

  Fri 13 Nov 2015

  Upton Infant School was doing its bit for Children in Need today. Pupils and staff came dressed in their own choice of clothes today in return for a donation.

   

  The school raised £250  for Children in Need. Thank you for your generosity.

   

   

  

• Football Fever

  Thu 12 Nov 2015

  Our Year Two footballers have been busy in the last couple of weeks.  Each year we organise the Harbour Sports Shield competition which is a series of events to promote competitive sport for Year Two pupils across the local schools.  Last week we hosted the football element and six teams competed against each other.  All the children showed great determination and skill with the 'A' team finishing as Runners Up (narrowly losing 1-0 in the final) and the 'B' team finishing fifth overall.

   

  The quote of the day came from Ollie Blemings who was overheard, as he ran back to the halfway line after scoring his second goal of the match, saying "If I score one more goal I'm like Geoff Hurst in the 1966 World Cup final".  Being that the Year Two children have just been studying the 1960s this is cross-curricular learning in real life action!

   

  We have also had a joint training session and match with the Yarrells School and it is noticeable that the children are really developing their skills and positional sense.  Thank you to Mr Antell and Mr Cole for organising these activities.

  

• Harvest Festival

  Fri 23 Oct 2015

  Today the children came to school dressed as farmers and scarecrows and donated food for our Harvest Festival.

   

  The children spent the day doing a range of Autumn themed activities, including carving harvest themed pumpkins.

   

  We were joined by members of the ‘Young at Heart’ club for our harvest assembly in which each year group sang an Autumn song and Mrs Vaughan and Mrs Grounds battled it out in a ‘Ready, Steady, Cook’ competition, judged by the Young at Heart. The pumpkin carving competition was won by the Foxes class.

  

• Fab finishes

  Wed 21 Oct 2015

  As is customary at the end of a half term, the year groups have been finishing their topics in style.

   

  Reception celebrated the end of their  'Royal Reception' topic with a grand ball in which children waltzed with each other dressed as knights, princes and princesses.

   

  Year One's 'It's all about me' topic culminated in the children producing their own 'grand designs' of their bedrooms in shoe boxes. Huge thanks to Mrs Harnett who helped the children on the sewing machine to produce their designs.

   

  Year Two's topic on 'The Swinging Sixties' finished with the Uptonstock Festival in which children showed off their singing, dancing, costumes and fantastic home learning projects.