Whole School Blog

Uplands Got Talent

Our annual talent show has come around again and what an impressive range of talent we had on show this year! There was singing, dancing, DJing, pogo stick jumping, gymnastics, magic tricks, football skills, Taekwondo and comedy - what more could you ask for? And all hosted beautifully by our very own Ant and Dec. It was a perfect celebration of all our children’s unique talents.

DT Enrichment Week

On Friday, we ended our brilliant Come Dine With Me week with a tasting session for parents to come in and enjoy what we had been making. Across the school, we had made soup, bread, a pasta dish and scones. We had a brilliant week!

World Down Syndrome Day

Today, to celebrate World Down Syndrome Day, we had the pleasure of having Hester visit our school and deliver a brilliant assembly. She was fabulous and we all learnt some Makaton and left having a better understanding of Down Syndrome. I have added the PowerPoint she used below so you can all learn as much as we did! Thank you, Hester!

World Book Day 2024

We have enjoyed a brilliant World Book Day - we’ve dressed up as words, brought in our toilet roll characters and taken part in a very busy Big Book Swap! See if you can figure out which words we’ve dressed up as and who our toilet roll characters are. Thank you to every one who took part!

Dance and Gymnastics Assembly March 2024

Enjoy some videos of our latest dance and gymnastics assembly. The children organised their routines themselves and practised at home - they did a brilliant job!

World Book Day

To celebrate World Book Day, we invited everyone to come into school for a reading breakfast.  We shared all our favourite books over a croissant or two!

Careers Week April 2022

This week the pupils at Uplands Community Primary School have had a fabulous week thinking about what they might do in the future. A few weeks ago we were surprised to see posters advertising staff vacancies appear around the school! The children decided to apply for the jobs that appealed to them and wrote very convincing, persuasive letters. This Tuesday, all of the children received a written reply to their application and discovered what their roles in the school would be.

Wednesday 6th April

This afternoon, all of the children had the opportunity to complete the job that they had been appointed for. We had cleaners, teachers, teaching assistants, deputy headteachers, headteachers, lunchtime supervisors, school business managers and even Ofsted inspectors! The children were brilliant and really enjoyed this unique experience. We were so impressed with the way that they were able to demonstrate teamwork, use of initiative and communication skills. The Ofsted inspections were very thorough and certainly gave us food for thought! 

Thursday 7th April

This afternoon we had visitors from our local community to talk about their different jobs. The children loved hearing about the different options open to them in the future including song writing, journalism, joining the police force, nursing, carpentry, becoming an artist or a doctor. At the end of the afternoon we all joined a Zoom call with Luke McGee from Forest Green Rovers. Thank you so much to all of our visitors today, you have given our children a really unique experience that they will never forget!

Friday 8th April 2022

Our amazing week ended with all of the children (and staff) coming to school dressed as their dream profession. What a fantastic week we have all had!

Friday 13th November

Children In Need

Today we supported Children in Need by paying a donation to wear whatever we wanted to. Well done to the School Council for organising such a fun event!

21st October 2020

Rainbow Run 

The children and staff had a wonderful afternoon taking part in Uplands School first Rainbow Run. Brightly coloured clothes were worn and children loved the opportunity to run at full pelt around the playground! We were so impressed with the children who tried their best and kept on going. Huge thanks must got to Mrs Knight and James from Atlas Sports for arranging such a fun event. We look forward to seeing what you organise next!

12.06.20

Welcome to our first Golden Assembly!

It was lovely to be able to finally connect across classes, even if it was only virtually! We apologise for the quality of pictures and sounds in some classrooms- this will improve as we get used to using Zoom. 

Week Commencing 4th May 2020

We hope that you are all well and have enjoyed the weekend. Did you manage to correctly guess the staff babies on the newsletter?

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Week Commencing 27th April 2020

Well done everyone, another successful week completed in these crazy times! The teachers have enjoyed chatting to you all this week and are glad that you are all keeping safe. Once again we have updated our plans for you to use next week- please see below. Remember, these are suggestions in order to give you detailed information and a structure to your day. It is absolutely fine to intepret these in your own way in order to suit the needs of your children.

Abbie's Amazing Writing

Mrs Tedaldi-Chestnutt was so impressed by Abbie's amazing writing, she has asked for it to be put on the website. Abbie was inspired by a video on Literacy Shed about a man called Mr Botte who is a shoemaker. Abbie wrote a diary from the viewpoint of Mr Botte and it is amazing! Well done Abbie!

Week Commencing 20.4.20

Welcome to the start of Term 5. We now know that we will be staying at home for at least another three weeks and so the teachers have put together a more detailed daily plan for you to follow to support your learning. The timetables are available below and on class blog pages.

Please be assured that we recognise that home learning can be difficult, so these are suggested timetables to give you and your child a daily structure and extra detail about learning. The most important thing to us at Uplands is that you are all safe and thriving. Use this guidance where it is helpful to you and your child but feel free to explore other learning and interests where you see the need. As ever, we would love to find out about what you are doing so email it over to deputyhead@uplands.gloucs.sch.uk.