Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
Mrs Stacey revealed how our Travel bugs have been getting on. Since February they have collectively travelled a total of over 10,000 miles worldwide! The winners this year are Corfe with the Travel bug Lulu the Ladybird leading the way with a journey of 7429 Miles! The last Cache was in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Well done to everyone who has got stuck in with Geocaching this year. Keep enjoying it over the Summer! Thank you Mrs Stacey for all your work with getting things started.
Congratulation Upton Juniors on winning Second Place in Upton Carnival. Huge thanks to everyone that was involved in any way for all your hard work and help. So proud of everyone for all your efforts. You did yourselves proud! See us in the Daily Echo via the link below:
Our Choir and 3 lucky Soloists performed in the final of the Pyramid Competition on Thursday 7th July. The Choir joined together with Upton Infants, Sandford Primary, Lytchett Matravers Primary and Lytchett Minster, to form one huge Choir. After rehearsal in the day, they performed two songs in the evening- 'We are the World' and 'Three Little Birds'. The soloists had previously auditioned in a competition 'heat' and were selected to take part in the final. Our Flautist, Tamzin, won the Beginner category, which included a £50 voucher. Our other two performers were runner ups, each winning £15 vouchers. Well done to everyone who took part in the event- you did yourselves and us all proud!
To see the video footage of the performances, please go to
http://www.uptonjun.dorset.sch.uk/pyramid-music-competition-final-july-2016/
On Tuesday 5th July 2016, we held our first Spelling Bee Championship in Upton Junior School.
As the lights were dimmed and music set the mood, three finalists from each year group walked onto the stage confidently, all hoping to be the champion speller from their year group. The audience were hushed as the contestants were given 20 seconds to write down the spelling word on their whiteboards. 5-4-3-2-1 was the chant as the countdown neared the end. Then the contestants spelled aloud the word in turn – everyone listened with bated breath!
Year 6 started the event with Sophia Brown, Michael Ghouri and Mia Longhurst. Amazing spelling from these three – the Year 6 spelling list was no challenge for them! Mia eventually won, spelling ‘vacuum’ correctly.
Next were Year 4 – a tense competition that promised to run and run because the children were such good spellers. The contestants were Isobel Hunter, Sophia Faletto and Zach Pipe. Such drama - but the eventual winner was Isobel Hunter.
Year 5 spellers came up after that with Harley McIntyre, Zara Pipe and Archie Sheppard competing for the Year 5 Spelling Bee trophy. What a competition! We thought they would never be separated but Harley was crowned Year 5 champion by the end of the show.
And finally from the Year 3 children, Chloe Dalley, Ethan Francis and Jessica Peel – the most amazing spellers of all. We just couldn’t find words that they couldn’t spell. Year 4 words were a mere trifle to them…. so we had to use Year 5 (difficult) words!!!!!! In the end, Chloe Dalley was our Year 3 champion. Such a superb ending to our Spelling Bee Championships.
All in all our first UJS Spelling Bee was an amazing success. The competition proved that Upton Junior School pupils certainly are SUPER SPELLERS.
On Monday 4th July children who won the e-safety competition, were fortunate to go to Poole museum.
Firstly we went and met Trudie who was going to be taking us around the museum and be working with us. Soon after, she showed us the log boat and explained about how old it was and where they found it. We then had a quick tour of the museum floors (there are 3 floors packed with historic things about Poole).
After all this excitement, there was more in store; we went up to the top of the building and the business marketing manager called Penelope spoke to us about how she thought she could change the website.
Next we wrote a tweet on paper about what we were doing. Then Trudie took them in and decided which one to put on as a tweet; she couldn’t choose between Isabelle’s or Ellis’ so she put them both together to make one. This was the tweet: 'Upton Junior School students have come to Poole Museum to experience an exciting learning adventure. Yay!'
Then we looked at different museum websites in pairs, thinking what we liked and didn’t like about them. We used this to think about what Poole Museum could use on the kids section of their website that would improve it and we contributed some ideas.
Lastly we had a go at the Poole trail, which is a series of posters hidden around the museum. You had to type in a code on the netbooks to find out interesting facts about the different artefacts there were in the museum.
Sadly we had to leave to get to school in time for lunch.
We really enjoyed the educational trip but we wouldn’t have been able to do it if Miss Havicon hadn’t organised it and Mr Williams hadn’t been an amazing Mini bus driver and helper.
Keira Johnson, Tia Deleasey & Zoe Lawrence
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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