Chandra, Sputnik & Voyager Class Blog

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

It has been another bust week for the children of Year 3 and 4. A number of children completed their ‘Bikability’ course, while others travelled to Birmingham to take part in the Young Voices event at the NEC. A massive well done to all of them! In maths this week

Welcome back to what will be a very busy, action packed term! We hope you all had a lovely Easter break and have had a chance to recharge. This week we began our new enquiry, “Where is our place in Europe”, in which the children will be geographers, looking at

Happy Easter! Well it has certainly been a very busy end to the Spring Term. Our enquiry project, ‘How is my body amazing?’ has come to an end. On Wednesday morning, we were delighted to welcome Jupiter and Pluto children into our classrooms to share our learning. It was great

This week as part of our enquiry, we had a visit from Jenny the dental nurse. She explained the important of keeping and teeth and gums healthy.           We have all been busy writing up explanations about human digestion which we will be publishing

We have all been delighted that the sun has shone this week. It makes such a difference being able to use the outside space. In science this week, the children have been continuing their work on digestion. We carried out three different experiments to see what happens during the digestive