Uplawmoor Primary has been awarded the Cycle Friendly School Award. This was awarded in recognition for our commitment to the Bikeability Programme and our commitment to encouraging our pupils to cycle as part of a healthy lifestyle.
The children of Primary 6 certainly deserve this award as they all passed both their Bikeability practical and written assessment. A huge well done to everybody in Primary 6!
We are delighted to report that we have been awarded a sportscotland “Gold School Sport Award” for 2015-2017.
The Gold School Sport Award is recognition of our school’s achievements in putting quality physical education and school sport at the heart of a school’s planning, practice and ethos.
The Gold Award also highlights that Uplawmoor Primary School has shown excellent practice across the core areas of the Award and demonstrated an on-going commitment to increase young people’s opportunities and engagement in quality physical education, school sport and leadership and provide clear pathways to life-long participation in sport.
A huge well done to the children and the staff who have all worked hard to earn this title. We look forward to showing off our flag and certificate very soon!
#SchoolSportAward and tag @sportscotland
The boys and girls are enjoying a week of sporting activities and healthy eating presentations to tie in with our Health week. Mrs Crawford has been extremely busy organising a variety of unusal sports for the children to try. Today we had a go at Muay Thai and listened to the P6/7s assembly about the hidden sugars which are in our favourite foods.
Tomorrow we will be trying out some fencing with golf, curling, tai chi and circuit training planned for the rest of the week. Please remind your children to wear long sleeves for fencing tomorrow and to bring outdoor clothing (waterproof jackets etc) as some of our activities will take place outdoors or at a different location.
We will keep you posted on the website!
Well done to our Star Pupils for this week. They received their stars for working hard in class and our three Primary 6 pupils received all GREENS in their practical bikeability test. 
By Amy Cupples
A big well done to our star pupils for last week. Eva, Gabriel, Jodie and Dean who all won Stars for their achievements in class. Well Done !
Our Constant Garden by Annabelle Leitch 
Uplawmoor Primary School was fortunate to be chosen to participate in a garden project called ‘Constant Garden’.
A company called Rocket Gardens Limited, based in Cornwall gave an undertaking to supply our school with five deliveries of plants throughout the year.
To date, we have received a wonderful assortment of plants including, a selection of kale , carrots , spinach , onions , land cress , purslane (salad leaves) , lettuces ,peas ,potatoes , beetroot and Chinese cabbage (pak choi and tatsoi).
We received our first delivery of plants in October 2014. Most of these have survived our severe Uplawmoor winter. Our selection of Kales are particularly hardy , very tasty and are growing from strength to strength.
Our potatoes were planted several weeks ago in tyres and we received another delivery of plants 3 weeks ago.
We had to work furiously to get these ‘plug plants’ into pots and they are at present being stored in the polytunnel awaiting planting in our school garden.
As we expect to receive another two deliveries from Rocket Gardens before summer break, Josh has built two more raised beds to make additional space available for planting.
Whilst our new starts were visiting Primary 1 and Mrs Meighan, Primary 2 came to see us in P6/7 and made some wonderful robots, televisions, castles and swimming pools.
Nice working with you Primary 2!
Niamh, Innes , Rob, Erin and Tiana are continuing their journey towards becoming High School students by visiting Eastwood High School this week. They will be participating in a carousel of sport activities with their new classmates on Thursday, then completing the week visiting their new classrooms and teachers on Friday.
Have fun – but don’t get too settled! You still have 4 weeks as Primary 7 pupils!
Primary 6/7 and Primary 2 have been enjoying some paired reading activities over the past couple of weeks. The children have been taking turns to read to each other and hear their favourite stories read aloud to them. We certainly have some star readers on our hands!
Primary 5 got through to the final of the East Renfrewshire Cricket Competition. We have been training with Matthew and Asad in school and have been working on our bowling and batting skills. We played Springhill and Auchenback in the final and lost by only 2 runs! We wish them all the best for the National Championships next month.
A big well done to Ashley, Dylan, Max, Mary, Adam, Leon, Cameron and myself!
We even featured in the Barrhead news this week! Check us out!
By Matthew Tait (P5)
By Shannon Walsh,
So, our adventures have come to an end. We have made lots of new friends from Crookfur and Neilston and have all faced lots of fears!
Despite missing her little sister, Erin’s favourite part was canoeing and kayaking and she managed to stay relatively dry. Niamh loved the evening walk and although it was hard work reaching the top, the views were beautiful. Innes faced his fears on the zip wire and flew through the air like Indiana Jones! His favourite activity was the obstacle course though.
Rob did a great job tackling the low ropes which was also Tiana’s highlight because she loved the challenge of travelling across the tyres. As for me, my highlight was abseiling as I’m afraid of heights and I managed to conquer my fears by walking backwards down a huge wall!
We’ve had a brilliant trip and although we’ve missed our friends and families we’ve had a great experience and have made memories and friends we will never forget.
Despite the awful weather forecast, we have been enjoying some gorgeous weather here in Lockerbie! We have been busy kayaking, biking and hillwalking and squeezing in some chill out time in the sunshine!
Well, we arrived safe and sound and have been busy biking, zip-wiring, abseiling and canoeing. We are completing 5 activities a day with 2 before and after lunch. We’ll keep you posted during our adventures!
We are off to Lockerbie Manor on Monday and we are so excited! We hope to write daily blogs (wifi permitting) so keep your eye on the website to see what we are up to!
Well done to team Uplawmoor who came 2nd in the Primary School Cricket Competition. They have all work extremely hard and did so well to get as far as they did! Well done Primary 5.
Well done to Tiana and Amy who received Mrs McKay’s Head Teacher award for their efforts in French. They wrote about their likes and dislikes, their pets and school life. Tiana has just started learning French since she joined us in August so a huge well done to her!
Primary 7 (and Annabelle in Primary 6) talked to the boys and girls today about VE day. We learned that VE stands for Victory in Europe and today is the day we remember those who lost their lives and fought for our country during World War 2. The boys and girls listened carefully and answered some questions.
We then observed a 2 minute silence.
Here are our star pupils for this week. Each of them have worked hard in class to achieve their golden star.
Well done to Beth and Eilidh on gaining their swimming medals and Josh for his show animals. Good luck this weekend at the Ayr show Josh!
A huge well done to team Uplawmoor who once again did us proud at the Neilston Show last weekend. The Tug O’War team beat some very tough competition to come 2nd place and the relay teams came 2nd and 3rd.
Well done to Innes, Josh, Rob, Adam Niamh, Amy, Tiana, Annabelle, Scott, Christopher, Carly, Abigale, Dean, Josh and Erin.
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