Upton House English

Our Form 6 Head of English was delighted to announce the winners of her 500-word competition this morning! ✨📚 Huge congratulations to everyone who entered. Your creativity lit up our Christmas holiday! Keep writing, keep imagining, and keep believing in the power of words. ✍️

FriYAY feeling indeed - a cosy day in our pyjamas to raise money for an importance cause @YoungMindsUK 💛✨ Form1S have had a fantastic week becoming journalists in @UptonEng This afternoon they’re enjoying a much-deserved pyjama den treat for their excellent newspaper writing!

📚✨ Having fun with phonics and spellings! Form 1S have been working hard consolidating their tr, sl, and st sounds. Lots of hands-on learning through play. Stamps, playdough, beads, and letter tiles make it even more fun! 🎉🔤 @UptonEng @UptonHouseSch #UptonJourney

Wonderfully creative and careful work this week, 1M! We enjoyed reading ‘After the Storm’ by Nick Butterworth and then retelling the story using puppets, designing our own animal treehouse and playing missing words! @UptonEng #UptonJourney

📚 This week, Upton Form 1 have been diving into The Frog Prince! 🐸🤴🏽 From sequencing the story and designing their own story maps, to crafting puppets for role play - another magical week of @UptonEng and imagination! ✨📖 #UptonJourney #FairyTail

Head of Wellbeing and Head of Younger Years @UptonWellbeing @UptonForm6 came to share our favourite stories, as part of #worldmentalhealthday2025. 📚💙 Look how storytelling brings us together! @UptonEng #UptonJourney 📖

A huge congratulations to all of our Form 1-6 children for taking their LAMDA exams this week. They had such fun showing the examiners their poems and scenes and shining with try Upton spirit! 👏⭐️ @UptonPrePrep @UptonForm3 @UptonForm4 @UptonForm5 @UptonForm6 #UptonJourney

Happy World Book Day! 📚📚📚#worldbookday2025 #UptonJourney @UptonForm2

#WorldBookDay in Oaks was a blast! Every character brought a firework of happiness and joy. The older children came with their favourite books and shared the stories with us. Books opens many doors…❤️

1M have had the best time dressing up as their favourite book characters to celebrate #worldbookday2025! We loved sharing our books with our friends and reading them together #readyourway 📚 🐛 @UptonEng

Form1S have had a gorgeous time celebrating #WorldBookDay with their friends. We have loved listening to each other’s stories and had great fun getting into character with our super outfits! A fantastic effort - well done all! 🤩🫶👏 @UptonEng @UptonHouseSch

A great range of book characters in Form 3 today for #WorldBookDay @UptonEng #UptonJourney

A wonderful week of sunshine! What better excuse is there to read outside? 📚☀️ #worldbookday2025 @UptonEng

Form 5 went all out for World Book Day—Hogwarts robes, Golden Tickets, and even Big Foot spotted in the corridor! Fancy dress and good books? A perfect match. 📚👏🏻 #WorldBookDay @UptonHouseSch @UptonEng @UptonHead #uptonjourney

Happy #worldbookday2025! Let’s find adventure in words and celebrate the magic of storytelling by bringing to life our favourite characters. 📚 @UptonEng #UptonEYFS ✨

Happy World Book Day from @UptonHouseSch 😃🤩📚📖 We’re celebrating the magic of books with reading sessions, creative costumes & exciting storytelling! What an incredible effort yet again everybody! 👏 @UptonEng #UptonEYFS @UptonPrePrep #UptonPrep #UptonJourney #worldbookday2025

Who’s that behind the mask?! It’s #WorldBookDay at @UptonHouseSch and we are very much looking forward to the celebrations ahead! Thank you for all that joined our Parade this morning! 🥳🤩Wishing everybody a Tiggerific day! 😃📚@UptonEng #worldbookday2025

What a delight it was to have Form 5 come and read to the Oak children. They were completely enthralled! ❤️@UptonHouseSch @UptonEng

This morning Form 1S WOWED us with their creativity and imaginative skills as they embarked on the challenge to create their own characters for @PhilipKavvadias’ new book 🤩✨ Excellent discussions and incredible designs - Well done everybody! 🌟📖 #worldbookday2025 @UptonEng

Members of our Broadcasting Club enjoyed getting green screen reading in rehearsals today ahead of our @UptonHouseSch #WorldBookDay tomorrow. We can’t wait to see everybody’s costumes & welcome parents to join us for our Book Day Parade! 📖📚🐰🧑‍🚀🕰️🧚‍♀️ @UptonEng #UptonBroadcasting