Newsletter Autumn 2018 Week 6

Weekly Newsletter Autumn 2018 Week 6 Harvest Festival was delightful this morning, thank you, children. Thank you Miss Shafikova, Mrs Newcombe, Mr McEvoy and Mr Witney. Beautiful singing enjoyed by all.

Thank you also to everyone at Holy Trinity Church for allowing us to enjoy our Harvest in such a beautiful church.

Reverend Pete and I raced back to school for the PreNursery and Nursery Harvest where the children sang Cauliflowers Fluffy and Dingle Dangle Scarecrow with great enthusiasm. They were all wonderful. Well done Little Upton. It has been a musical theme at Upton this week with the Prep girls performing in the Maidenhead Festival.

Well done to all who performed and did so well. Some of them also visited Downe House to experience playing in an orchestra. We received a very warm welcome and the girls joined the large orchestra with great confidence and skill. It is always a delight to be in the classrooms with the children and see their work. The Monopoly adverts created by Form 5 this week were incredible and very professional. The girls’ posters explaining why reading is important were equally impressive & a pleasure to read. We are encouraging all the children to read as much as possible whether it is fiction, non-fiction, news or poetry. Verbal reasoning, which starts in Form 3, is based on knowledge of vocabulary. Reading increases and deepens each child’s vocabulary, allowing them to achieve well in verbal reasoning tasks. Reading is also, of course, a great source of enjoyment once a child finds the genre they love. Next week is Science week at Upton. We look forward to the many wonderful investigations planned, and very much hope you can join us for the Science Evening on Thursday October 18th. Rhian Thornton

We are really looking forward to sharing our love of science next week. We have a lot planned, including an assembly and workshops on states of matter, an exploration of space in a mobile planetarium, the Papplewick reptiles will be visiting with Mr Elkington and get ready to dress up as something linked to science for Friday’s mufti day. We will be sending home a science quiz – get all the answers correct to be in with a chance of winning a prize!

Thursday’s Science Evening, 6-7pm, is open to all our families where there will be lots of fun activities for all ages. Remember to watch out for our daily tweets to see what we’ve been up to.

Sandy Lewin & Lesley Webb

By Riya, F5S

PTA News Tickets are now on sale for the Halloween Fancy Dress Disco on Friday 19th October, Tickets @ £6.50 Transition to F2: 6pm to 7.15pm* (*the early disco will be an allergy-free event)

Forms 3 to 6: 7.45pm to 9pm

If you have any spare time to help on the evening, please let your class rep know Book via our NEW EASY online payment tool which is on the UHS website under PTA Events https://www.uptonhouse.org.uk/parents/pta-events Children may bring some pocket money (no more than £5) to buy gifts and snacks.

Don't forget to wear your fancy dress costume and to bring your broomsticks. See you there!

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115 St Leonard’s Road Windsor SL4 3DF

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We are raffling two Windsor Monopoly games. Tickets are available from the School Office before the draw on 19th October. £2 each, all proceeds to the Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice charity.

Wellbeing Tip of the Week Always try your best.

What you plant now, you will harvest later.

We celebrated World Mental Health day on Wednesday by making 118 positive messages in support of the #HelloYellow campaign for YoungMinds. It was wonderful to see so many of the children's happy thoughts reflected in our bunting and colourful displays around school. The Happy Newspaper has also arrived in school, full of fun stories from around the world. Did you know that rats and mice are ticklish and laugh when tickled? Nursery, Transition and Pre-Prep have had a special delivery too of cuddly, furry monsters who like to gobble up worries - yum, yum! #UptonWellbeing Anna Hewitt

Here’s a great article from BT focusing on the use of devices, a worthwhile read! http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/internet/broadband/stop-child-distracted-by-technology-11364301144465 Next Week’s Calendar

OCTOBER Monday 15th

Science Week 8-8.30am 8.30-8.50am 1.30-3.15pm 4-5pm

Junior Choir Ensemble Form 6 Charity Reps to Slough Foodbank Senior Choir

9am 2.30pm 4.15pm

Ballet Nursery to Form 6 Swimming for Form 2 Council of Management Health and Safety Committee Meeting Form 4 Netball v The Marist (a) * Meeting for Parents of Girls in Nursery to Form 5 *

8-8.30am 9am-3.45pm 9am-4pm 7.30pm

Judo for Transition to Form 6 (excluding Form 1) Nursery (Red and Blue) to Forest School Queensmead Middle Choir Form 5 to Brooklands Museum Forms 1 to 4 to the Natural History Museum Council of Management Finance General Purposes Committee Meeting

Tuesday 16th

Wednesday 17th

Thursday 18th 1.15-2pm 6-7pm Friday 19th 8.50am 6-7.15pm 7.45-9pm

Swimming for Forms 3 to 6 Nursery (Yellow and Green) to Forest School Queensmead Fencing for Forms 3 to 6 Science Evening for all Parents and Pupils * Mufti Day—dress up with a science theme Swimming for Form 1 Form 6 Science Assembly * PTA Halloween Disco—Transition to Form 2 PTA Halloween Disco—Forms 3 to 6 * parents are welcome to attend these events

Upton House School

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115 St Leonard’s Road Windsor SL4 3DF

T: 01753 862610

www.uptonhouse.org.uk

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