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.

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.

Pupils in the Foxes Class treated their parents to the school's first class assembly of the year.

The assembly took the form of 'University Challenge' in which the pupils from the Upton Infant School team soundly beat the students from Oxford University with their knowledge of events from the sixties.

Well done Foxes! A super class assembly.Take a look at the photos to see some of the action for yourselves.

Our Year Two football squad enjoyed an afternoon of sporting fun when we held a joint training session followed by matches with the Yarrells School.  Approximately thirty children from the two schools took part with 'Head Coach' Mr Antell leading the session ably assisted by 'Director of Football' Mr Cole.  In the matches we drew one game 0-0 and won the other 4-0 with Alfie Speller scoring a hat-trick.

Congratulations to everyone who took part. 

Upton Infant School's new school council was officially appointed by Michael Tomlinson, MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole, at a special assembly.

Mr Tomlinson took the opportunity to look around the school and talk to children from each class.

Mrs Marsh will be working with the school council, which comprises one child from each Year One and Two class, to represent the voice of the pupils in helping to continue to improve Upton Infant School.

Today we launched our new reading reward scheme. Children had to solve clues to unlock the reading chest to discover what the new reading rewards would be.

Reception children solved clues around school, whilst Year One and Two children spent the day at Upton Country Park to unravel the clues to unlock the treasure chest.

One of our key aims is for our pupils to become confident and fluent readers, and through our reading reward scheme we hope to promote a love and  enthusiasm for reading.

The great and good of the Upton community gathered together today to open the recently created Mural Garden.  All the local schools and preschools were represented along with Dame Annette Brooke, Michael Tomlinson MP and the Mayor of Upton June Richards.

The murals that had adorned the Waypoints building site have been relocated alongside a landscaped seating area.  The local children had been asked to provide designs for the bin and Madison's picture (Ducks Class) was selected as a winner.

Congratulations to all those involved in the project - another fine example of the tremendous community spirit that Upton is becoming renowned for.

Today we held our first Urn 'n' Learn morning of the year where parents had the chance to spend a lesson with their child followed by a coffee morning in aid of MacMillan Cancer Support.

We are always delighted to see so many parents and grandparents taking such an interest in their child's education and raising money for such a worthwhile cause at the same time. In total, £247 was raised. Thank you everyone for your support.

The School Council Elections will be taking place on Friday. Nominees from each class have been busy campaigning to secure votes from their classmates. 

Children have created posters, banners, leaflets, rosettes and balloons to promote their manifestos. All the candidates have shown themselves to be super ambassadors for Upton Infant School, but unfortunately only one school councilor from each class will be elected in Friday's ballot.

Mid Dorset and North Pool MP, Michael Tomlinson, will officially appoint the school councilors in a special assembly on Friday 2nd October.

Listen to the candidates manifesto pledges on our podcast page.

We have had a super start to the new school, and the children have settled in brilliantly to their new classes. Our Reception children spent their first morning in school today and had a fantastic morning. As always, there is lots going on around school and  the exciting start to the year has even included visits from Mr Bump and  Neil Armstrong and we have even had the coronation of a  princess!

Take a look at some of the photos below to see how our children have settled in to their new classes.