Chandra, Sputnik & Voyager Class Blog

Welcome back to school! All of the teaching staff would like to take the opportunity to say thank you for the cards and gifts that we were given at the end of the Summer Term. They were very much appreciated. We also want to welcome back our Year Fours and

What a busy week it’s been! Despite the disappointment of having to cancel our beach trip, we had a fantastic day on Tuesday, with the children enjoying a whole variety of activities on the school field. We were pond dipping and scavenger hunting, finding a great variety of little creatures

Its been another very busy week, culminating in sports day on Thursday. The children had a great time and participated with huge enthusiasm and determination. It was lovely to see so many examples of great sportsmanship and the children finally being able to compete in front of their parents once

Its been another great week at Uphill with a number of new areas studied across the subjects. In English, we started our new book, ‘The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane’. We have been exploring the main character and the children have been writing in role as Edward. In maths, Year

Its been another busy week at Uphill. In maths, we identified and described 2D and 3D shapes and the children constructed their own using nets. Everyone was very engaged and it was a great way to end the geometry and shape maths block. In English, we wrote our own story

While the Year 4’s were away on their residential trip to Folly Farm, the Year 3 enjoyed two days of DT and art. On Thursday we we identified and experimented with the three different classes of lever before before building models of them. We then produced some fantastic pencil drawings

Welcome back! We hope you all had a lovely break and are ready for what will be a very busy and exciting final term. We have certainly hit the ground running this week. In science we have continued learning about electricity and investigated which materials are conductors and which were

We’ve had a fantastic final week of term celebrating Uphill School’s 150th Anniversary. On Monday we were visited by Mr Stevenson, head teacher from 1990 to 2000, who talked about what school life was like back in the 90’s and reflected on some of the changes the school has  gone

This week we have been getting ready for the 150th anniversary of Uphill School with a range of activities and work. In Year 3/4 we learned about what it was like to be an evacuee during the Second World War and looked at the accounts of two people who were

Its been another productive week in year 3/4. As part of our Geography enquiry, ‘Where is our place in Europe?’, we have been finding out about the counties which make up England using our map skills. We were locating counties and using an eight-point compass to describe where they could