Newsletter Spring 2019 Week 3

Weekly Newsletter Spring 2019 Week 3 During Children's Mental Health Week (4th to 10th February) we will be supporting the children's charity Place2Be which aims to raise awareness of positive mental health for children and young people across the UK. This year, the theme is how to stay healthy on the inside and out. Did you know that making healthy choices for our body, like eating well, getting enough sleep and being active are also good for your mind? During the week we will be thinking about how we stay healthy and decide on one new thing we can do to look after our body and mind. A separate letter has already been sent to parents today about an information meeting on Friday 8th February at 8.50am with myself and Mrs Newcombe—we hope to see you there. Anna Hewitt Transition were lucky enough to have a trip to Combermere Barracks this week. We had so much fun! We completed a treasure hunt in the museum, spotting all sorts of things from huge Afghanistan spiders to helicopters. We went on a tour looking out for different forms of transport—there were tanks galore but we also spotted a horse ambulance, a desert buggy and so many horses. We were allowed to climb on carriages and we were able to stroke Bentley, a very friendly and patient horse. We were so engrossed in it all that we didn’t notice the cold one bit! A hugely enjoyable morning.

Form 3 competed with grit and determination in a netball match at St George’s Windsor today. Their focus paid off as they won both matches 7-5 and 1-0. The whole team and Players of the Match, Ruby and Nafeesah, are to be congratulated. Sarah Smith Date for your diary: St George’s Ascot are holding an Open Morning, Friday 8th March, 9am-12.

Wellbeing Tip of the Week

When things get hectic, focus on being calm.

Store away sunshine for cloudy days.

PTA News Friday 8th March, 7.30pm at Upton House * * * Tickets Now On Sale * * * * * * 2019 Great British Pub Quiz * * * Form 5 parents are busy organising a fantastic pub quiz.

Ticket price £15pp to include a Traditional English Supper * * New for this year .... you can pre-book your drinks order for your table * * Food orders are to be given in advance on the booking form, choice of chicken or vegetarian.

Please organise your teams and choose a team name before completing the booking form.

Teams must have a minimum of 8 players and a maximum of 10. To book please go to https://tiarc.wufoo.com/forms/qdfnhhi0xnk4am/ and get behind this highly competitive and entertaining event as we have limited numbers. F5 and PTA Committee Upton House School

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We are aware that some parents are still receiving SPAM emails, apparently from Mrs Thornton or from any another members of staff, referring to invoices and with a link to “the invoice”. These are usually very short, just a line or two, with no confidentiality notice from Upton House at the bottom. These fake emails are very clever and really do look genuine. We are aware that this week a local school was the target of a ransomware attack by this means so please do not click on the link and delete the email from your Inbox and Deleted items. We are really very sorry that this is still happening but are rather powerless to prevent it. Please just be extra vigilant if you are at all suspicious. One good way, although not foolproof, is to hover your cursor over the sending email address and you will see an entirely different address, nothing to do with Upton House, which is the address of the real sender of the message, masquerading as one of the Upton staff. Kate Allies Please help us to sponsor the polar bear which is classed as ‘vulnerable’. Next week we are asking all the children to bring in as many coins as possible (1p to £2, no foreign coins please). EYFS and Pre-Prep will have pictures of polar bear cubs to cover with the coins and Prep will lay their coins onto a large mother polar bear. If we have enough coins we will fill a father polar bear too! Thank you. Ava and Emily, Form 6 Charity Reps This weekend is the RSPB’s Bird Count. Wherever you are, make a list of the birds you see. You could record your findings in a tally chart, bar chart, pie chart or any other way. Please bring your results in to Mrs Newcombe next week. For further details visit https://www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/activities/birdwatch/

JANUARY Monday 28th

8-8.30am 8.30-9am 11am 1.30pm 4-5pm

Tuesday 29th 8-8.30am 8.30am 9.15am 7.30pm Wednesday 30th 12pm 7pm Thursday 31st 1.15-2pm 2.40pm Friday 1st FEBRUARY 8.50am 2.30pm Upton House School

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Next Week’s Calendar Road Safety Awareness Week Junior Choir Ensemble Pre-Prep School Council meeting with Mrs Thornton Prep School Council meeting with Mrs Thornton Senior Choir Ballet Nursery to Form 6 Swimming for Form 2 Middle Choir Parents’ Coffee Morning with Mrs Thornton in the Wallace Hall, to be joined by PCSO David Bullock Assembly with PCSO David Bullock—coffee morning parents welcome to stay* Council of Management Development Committee meeting Judo Transition to Form 6 Form 5 to Sir William Perkins’s to see Mary Poppins Council of Management Bursary Committee Meeting Swimming for Forms 3 to 6 Form 6 Cycling Proficiency Fencing for Forms 3 to 6 Form 5 netball match v Eagle House (a) * Swimming for Form 1 Form 6 Cycling Proficiency Forms 5N and 5S Assembly * Form 4 netball match v St George’s Windsor (h) * * parents are welcome to attend these events

115 St Leonard’s Road Windsor SL4 3DF

T: 01753 862610

www.uptonhouse.org.uk Spring 2019 Week 3, 25 1 19