Exchange of costumes, equipment and uniform

Something school-related to sell or swop? Need something, but don't have the time, money or inspiration?

Click here for the Upminster Exchange (Facebook link)

UPDATED Charity Support & Fundraising Calendar

Click here to read Charity & Fundraising events 2017-2018

Pin it to the fridge! A handy list of events for this academic year. If you can help at the Fireworks please make yourself known to the PA.

British Values display

Each year group was given one of the British Values to illustrate, which we merged into one display - look how creative they are!

sQuid and Parentpay

Welcome back to school! Just a quick reminder that everyone needs to be signed up to sQuid to pay for school dinners and Parentpay to receive communication from the school and to pay for trips and activities.

Autumn Activity Brochure

Autumn Activity Brochure

Local History Project

A small group of Year 6 students have been looking at the School’s log books.  We learnt that our school was nicknamed The Bell after a pub that used to be on the corner of the road.  We also found out that where the bike shed now is, there was an unexploded bomb during the World War 2.  In the hall there was a swordfish sword in a display cabinet.

After break we interviewed two local businessmen,  Mr Roomes and Mr Parish.  We had thought of interesting questions to ask them the day before and we were excited to meet them.  Firstly, we interviewed Mr Roomes.  He said that he and his brother used to own two different branches, however they sold off the one which is now Roomes Fashion store.  After a little break, we interviewed Mr Parish, who said that his great grandfather established the original estate agents in Green Lane in Upton Park.

Mr Roomes and Mr Parish remember having their school photos taken in the quad of the school and being threatened with the wooden cane, by their year 4 teacher.

We will be making a history display for the reception area, based on what we have learnt about this week.

Visiting Manor Juniors

A group of Year 6 students visited Ms Puirseil’s previous school, Manor Juniors in Upney. 

For the first lesson, we had PE where we started with a slow warm up and then moved on to Just Dance (a fitness workout).  Finally for that lesson we followed the instructions of The Body Coach (Joe Wicks) who does intensive fitness videos. 

After a singing assembly, we had break time, where we were introduced to some very friendly people that looked after us.  

Penultimately we had to think whether we thought SATs were important to take or not.  Of course the majority of people didn’t think they were necessary!!  We had lunch with the children from Manor and then came back to school.

Cashless Catering

https://portal.squidcard.com/LoginPortal/

Havering Catering Services' cashless system, 'Squid' launches at UJS on Thursday 20th April. Please ensure you are ready by creating your account, and loading money to onto it before Thursday morning.

If there are not sufficient funds on your account, you will have to bring a packed lunch in for the child.

If you chose to send your child with a packed lunch, or if they receive Free School Meals, you do not need to load money.

Details were on the letter sent home last term; please request a replacement from the office if needed.


Please remember that we will no longer be selling morning snacks or lunchtime squash.

Trips and events etc will continue on ParentPay. The Catering team will be arranging refunds/credits for any tickets you may still have.


For more assistance visit:

https://www.squidcard.com/welcome/squid-online-parents


https://www.squidcard.com/welcome/help

Summer Activity Brochure

Summer extra-curricular activity brochure can be downloaded here

March Newsdesk

To view March Newsdesk click here

February Newsdesk

February Newsdesk available to view here.

Measuring Jugs

We normally copytype the Class Reporter's submissions, but this scientific report from 3GM is so beautifully written that it's shown in it's original format.

January Newsletter

The January Newsletter has been published.

O2 Young Voices

5Z reports-

Everyone is excited about Young Voices with lots of schools coming to sing. We hope everyone enjoys the performance tonight, have a fantastic time!

OFSTED Report

Upmister Junior School is a GOOD school!

Click here to read the report of OFSTED's recent inspection. Thank you to all the children, staff and families who took part.

"Pupils' progress is improving because of the good standard of teaching across the school"

”Leaders and governors have made sure the the school has sustained the high attainment for pupils in reading, writing and mathematics"

“Leaders use good teaching practice across the school to model high expectations for all staff" 

"Teachers ensure that work matches the abilities of pupils"

Christmas Party!

On the last day of term we had a Christmas Party. We loved decorating our tables in a Christmas theme and the Secret Santa was a great idea. The food was delicious and everyone enjoyed themselves.




6S Class Reporter

Year Five Production - reviews

Parents, Governors and Guests will be seeing the Year 5 production this week. To whet your appetite for the show, here are two reviews of their performance of 'Ebenezer':

'In the year 5 production there are some very nice songs. I like how they use actions. It is amazing how they have remembered their lines. Their acting is amazing! There are some very funny jokes. They all have beautiful singing and acting skills. I like it when they show Scrouge's past.'

- 4Z Class Reporter

'Ebenezer, the year five production that my class watched, was exceedingly good, and I could tell that the pupils and staff put a great detail of work into it. How do I know this? Firstly, the year fives definitely got a five star rating for acting completely like Victorians, and the few pupils that played Ebenezer Scrooge truly mastered his attitude and character. Next, the songs were another brilliant feature as all the children put a ton of effort and passion in to singing all the words and doing the actions. I particularly liked the song 'Hate Everybody' as it made me laugh, and the song 'It's too late now' had some fantastic extra characters! Lastly, I really loved the character of Fred (Scrooge's nephew). The actor showed a lot of enthusiasm and did an amazing job.

All in all, I believe that all the parents that go to see this play will absolutely love it. Well done year five!'

- 6P Class Reporter

Admission Arrangements: Consultation

You may have heard about Havering's Consultation about Admissions to Infant, Junior & Primary schools. Full details are on the UJS website. click here to go to the Admissions page

OFSTED - 13th December 2016

Click here for the Letter to Parents from OFSTED and their guide to School Inspections.

Celebrating Assembly

Friday 16^th September 2016

We created monster poems in literacy to write descriptively 

This week in Literacy we have been exploring how language 

is used for effect by creating similes. We had to write a list 

poem about ourselves using similes only!