Exploring fire safety through role play is an excellent way for children to experience potential scenarios and be mentally prepared for them. Through this, children can gain a better understanding of the role of firefighters.

Our Kids with Bricks Club was full of excitement this week! The current theme is Romans. Children have a huge amount of fun while developing strategy, resilience and confidence skills. Winning entry photos are uploaded to the Kids with Bricks website, voted by Ms Roberts, the club leader and all of the children in the club. A special well done to Poppy, Leo and Henri whose group build was a Gladiators and Colosseum! Previous week winders were of Roman Arches and look amazing! Congratulations all round! 

Congratulations to our Year 3 and 4 pupils who took part in the SSP Quicksticks Festival hosted at Pelicans HC last week.30 School teams took part in either the Cup Competition or the non-scoring Fun Festival and a great day of Hockey was had by all.

This year's theme is 'Your Voice Counts'. At Upwell Academy, we place great importance on celebrating all things literary.

On Thursday 3 October it was National Poetry Day, an annual mass celebration to encourage all to enjoy, discover and share poetry. This year, the theme was “Your Voice Counts’’ and this was interpreted through verse in a wide and wonderful number of ways.

Thank you to the parents and children that joined us this week for Mrs Fisher’s Reading Workshop. This was an opportunity to find out more about our continued plans for developing reading outcomes for all pupils and our initiative for Reading for Pleasure. Mrs Fisher has successfully led English at Upwell for over 6 years with huge advances in improving our Reading Curriculum offer.