All parents and carers are required to wear a face covering on the school site (both outside and inside).  If you have a specific exemption, please email headteacher@uplandsmanor.sandwell.sch.uk before Monday 8th March. 

You will not be permitted onto the school site without a mask unless we have been told that you are exempt.    

Year 1 key worker bubble has had to close due to a positive covid test result. The staff and children from that bubble must isolate until (and including) 6th March.

Below is a list of letters sent to you by text and email this week.  If you haven't received them, please click on the links below:

All our lunch staff and our catering team at LTS are looking forward to seeing all the children in school on 8th March!

You now need to pre-book your child’s school dinners on the School Gateway app in order to ensure that they receive a school dinner.

To book a meal you need to:

• log into your School Gateway account select your child’s name
• Select ‘lunch money’
• Click on the blue box that says ‘Make or View Meal Bookings’.

Please note that dinners must be paid for at the point of booking (unless you get free school meals).  

If you have an outstanding dinner debt, you will not be able to book a dinner online until the debt is paid.  You must contact the office to discuss clearing this and send a packed lunch into school with your child.  If your child arrives to school without a packed lunch, you will be contacted to bring one in for them.

If you need to set up a new account, download the school gateway app on your phone or use the following link online https://login.schoolgateway.com/0/auth/register. You can also reset forgotten passwords from this link if you click on ‘existing user’.

Please check that you are able to book meals in advance of returning to school and email any issues regarding logging in or any other dinner related queries to schooldinners@uplandsmanor.sandwell.sch.uk

4 Community Trust will be providing the breakfast and after school clubs from the 8th March. If you need to book a place, please go to the website below

https://www.4communitytrust.co.uk/

We have been nominated by one of our parents, Mrs Heath, to receive a Chromebook from a company called 'Wicked Uncle'.  Thank you Mrs Heath, the Chromebook will be very useful.

The next story is 'Geronimo' by David Walliams and is read by Mrs Sutton.  You will be able to see it on Monday. 

If you have a go at the task, please tweet us pictures/videos or send them to your child(ren)'s teacher over Google Classroom - we'd love to see them! 

We believe that it is important to celebrate achievements.  Each week, children may be given a gold letter from a member of staff or a certificate from Mr Dickinson, Miss Copestake or Miss James.

If your child has done something special outside school - maybe they have helped someone or done something special.  Tell us so that the Uplands community can share in their celebration. Email headteacher@uplandsmanor.sandwell.sch.uk 

Some children are sent to the Headteacher or Deputy Headteacher for a special award.  Congratulations to:

The children who have submitted at least 2 pieces of work every day were entered into a class raffle draw to receive a £5 voucher.  One child from each class was chosen and the winners for the week beginning 8th February were:

There will be another raffle draw for this week and for next week with there being a winner from every class again. 

Next week is World Maths Day and we will be celebrating this on Friday 5^th March. This World Maths Day will replace Google Classrooms remote learning for the day. This gives you the flexibility to complete a few tasks with no pressure of timetables or the reliance of sitting in front of a device all day.

We have created a range of activities and challenges to for you to do that all involve maths in some way. Maths is everywhere in our lives and we wanted you to explore a range of different activities that you may have never known involved maths! Choose 3 or 4 activities and enjoy them as a family. As you complete these activities, we would like you to think about how maths was involved in the activity. You can upload pictures to Google Classrooms, post them on Twitter…or just enjoy the activities together at home!  

We will also be setting tournaments on Times Table Rock Stars for all of our Key Stage 2 children on this day, so make sure you log in and contribute to your class’s overall score.'  

We are based at Dorothy Parkes Centre and St Albans Community Centre.

 Our role is to support and help you to manage any problems or concerns you may have about benefits, the need for food parcel’s, reducing utility bills, general household issues to helping with money/debt problems, volunteering opportunities and much more.

For more informations, contact Fionnuala on 07503 504064 or pop in to the Dorothy Parkes Centre.

Love Productions, the company behind The Great British Bake Off, The Great British Sewing Bee and The Great Pottery Throw Down are delighted to say, that we have recently opened applications for the 7^th series of Junior Bake Off; a Channel 4 programme that celebrates the culinary talent and ambition of the younger generation in Britain.

We are looking for young budding bakers between 9 -15 years old.

Filming would take place from July 2021, but our applications close on Sunday 28^th March 2021.

Interested bakers can apply online at - WWW.APPLYFORJUNIORBAKEOFF.CO.UK.