It’s the most wonderful (but very busy) time of the year for musicians at Upton Junior School! Pupils involved with the Choir & Tambourine Band, as well as several soloists enjoyed opportunities to perform both in the community as well as in our own school hall.

On 24th November they performed for the ‘Young at Hearts’ for their annual Christmas party at St Dunstan’s Church hall. Further concerts on Monday 5th December were the Community Christmas concert in our hall to residents from local nursing homes, and our annual Christmas Music Concert to parents and family.

To conclude the festive performances, on Thursday 8th December, the Choir sang Carols at Upton Cross; alongside Upton Infants School and accompanied by The Salvation Army. Thank you to all those involved for their enthusiasm and huge amount of effort in rehearsals and performances. Have a well-deserved restful Christmas break! 

It’s been a busy half term in the Sporting Calendar. Mr Startin has already taken the girls Football Team to a tournament and the Running Club to Sandbanks; they ran 1.5 miles along the seafront! All children involved thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

Mrs Stacey had the pleasure of taking six year 6 children to Poole High School to train as

Bronze Ambassadors. The day was an energising mix of planning and learning new games that can be passed on to other children at our school. Harley, Harry and Tom from 6L, Sasha and Kelsey from 6D and Haddy from 6S were a credit to the school and are very keen to implement the new ideas that they have!

On Thursday and Friday, the year 6 group went to the water works treatment centre in Holdenhurst

(Bournemouth) to learn how they treat our sewage and waste.

Once we arrived most of the year group were complaining about the stench and were saying they will

never come here to work. Duncan and Pete (the instructors) showed us around, once we settled down

they started to talk about how the water cycle worked and how they enhanced dirty waste into drinkable liquid.

As soon as Duncan and Pete told us all about the information, we went outside on a tour around the

sewage works. Some of the children were still complaining about the smell, but the others were now

enjoying the trip, by now we were at the end of the tour.

We went back to the classroom to have lunch (YUMMY). After lunch, we did a test on what we learned about. Following on that, we did an experiment. All the children really liked the trip and most of us wanted to go again. Thank you for the trip Duncan and Pete!

By Ellis and Marco.

This years additional roles for pupils were celebrated in assembly today.

School Council, play leaders, peer mediators and the Year 6 House captains

They will all play critical roles in enabling 'Pupil voice' at Upton Junior School