Gordon Phillips, our Active Schools Co-ordinator, has organised a morning of events on Thursday 24th April to celebrate the importance of teamwork and collaboration within the Commonwealth countries. Our morning will also set the tone for the Commonwealth Games which Glasgow are hosting later in the year.
All pupils should bring their PE kits including a t-shirt in their house colour. Photographs will be taken throughout the morning and displayed on our plasma screen and on our website.
A quick reminder that the Uplawmoor art exhibition starts in the Mure Hall on 8th April – 21st April. Please go along to look at the work of Ana Genoves, Rachel Lowther, Georgina Starr and Kerry Stewart. 
As you know our P4-7 pupils took part in a ‘Living Sculputres’ session with Rachel which will be on display at the exhibition.
The pupils are busy creating their characters for our Easter Eggstravaganza this week.
The children have been writing adventure stories, diaries and and character profiles to go along with their eggs which will be displayed on Thursday afternoon from 1.45pm. 
Everyone is welcome to come along on Thursday to have a look at what the pupils have been doing! You are also welcome to have a refreshment during the Easter Treasure Hunt… (I wonder if it will be snowing like it was last year?)
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A huge well done to Uplawmoor Primary School’s netball team who came 1st place at last night’s Netball competition at Eastwood High School’s sports centre.
“We’ve been working hard at lunchtime with Mrs Dobbins to ensure we were at our best. We won each game we played in and we are looking forward to representing our school at the next event on the 1st April 2014”.
The Netball Team:
Shannon, Erin, Niamh, Bobbi, Luca, Morgan, Eve, Glen, Amy.
The East Renfrewshire netball competition is coming up and we have 8 players in P5/6/7 for the 20th of March. We’re hoping for the best and practising lots.
Good luck team!
By Rob Pollok
On the 20th March it’s the P6 K’nex challenge. The pupils who are representing the school are Rob Pollok and Innes Carslaw, I hope they do well.
By Luca P7
Stuart Reid contacted the school to thank the children and staff for their enthusiasm and participation during last week’s author visit. He has asked me to let all our keen readers know that he will sign any outstanding books and post them to the school as soon as possible.
Stuart is one of the the UK’s most inspiring and informative school speakers. He works with schools on a daily basis and has worked at over 500 book events. Stuart currently offers ‘Real World’ workshops which are designed to motivate young people as preparation for high school, college, university of the world of real work.
Stuart is passionate about inspiring the youth of today to go on to do great things whatever their indvidiaul vocation, as well as raising the aspiration of young people to their future success.
The boys and girls of Uplawmoor Primary welcomed Rachel Lowther last Wednesday afternoon. Rachel is a Scottish artist, who, in collaboration with other artists, will be hosting an art exhibition to be held at the Mure Hall on 8th – 21st April 2014.
Rachel took the time to show the children a variety of sculptures and talked to the children about what inspires artists and their work. The children participated in a ‘living sculpture’ session which Rachel photographed and will use as part of the exhibition in April.
The children thoroughly enjoyed the experience and we are all looking forward to the exhibition in April.
For more information please follow this link:
http://glasgowinternational.org/events/the-uplawmoor-show-opening-event-and-performances/
We were lucky enough to welcome Stuart Reid to our school this afternoon as part of our World Book Day celebrations.
Stuart Reid is one of the busiest children’s authors around. Stuart’s uniquely entertaining readings are wild, wacky, crude, rude and hilariously fun for everyone involved. Some of his work includes ‘Gorgeous George and the Giant Geriatric Generator’ and ‘Gorgeous George and the Zigzag Zit-faced Zombies’. The children enjoyed hearing his funny stories and learning about how he started writing novels.
I wonder if we have any future authors amongst our pupils?
For more information, please visit http://www.mylittlebigtown.com/gorgeousgeorge/
World Book Day is a celebration! It’s a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) it’s a celebration of reading. Today, children of all ages will come together to appreciate reading which is the main aim of World Book Day.
The children of Uplawmoor Primary got into the spirit of things and dressed up as their favourite author, story or character and celebrated World Book Day with a variety of fun activities. Children were encouraged to take some quiet time to read silently each time the ‘reading’ bell rang.
What a great day!
P4-7 were lucky enough to spend the morning with Zoe, Beth and Charlie who came to help us with our acting and performing skills. We started the morning with some warm up games to help us act out scenarios and project our voices. Afterwards, Zoe, Charlie and Beth talked to us about the story and gave us some acting tips which we could use in our performance.
We worked in little groups and used our bodies and voices to create different objects such as an oven, a clock, a forest, animals and trees. There were different children playing the role of Red and Reuben which allowed everybody the chance to play a part.
To end our morning, we performed our show to the staff and Primary 1-3. Beth and Charlie were really funny as they played the role of the granny, the wolf and the baker.
By P4/5
The boys and girls of Uplawmoor did us (and Robert Burns) proud today. The audience were well and truly entertained by our wonderful musicians, singers, actors and dancers. A huge well done to P4-7 for their superb (and brave) poetry recitals, not to mention Ashley, Rob, Shannon, Naimh, Eve and Morgan who sang for the judges.
Primary 6/7 went to the Knex Championships at Eastwood High School on Thursday. We had one hour to come up with three playground pieces of equipment. We had gold, silver and bronze winners. It was a great event!
By Eve Wengel, P7
We were recently visited by Mrs Anne Black of the Keep Scotland Beautiful Eco School’s Team. Mrs Black came to assess whether or not we should keep our Green Flag status. The day was led by member of our Eco-Committe, two representatives of our Garden Committte and one of our JRSOs. They had a very informative presentation, a tour of the school and school grounds and answered questions about our Eco Action Plan. Mrs Black was very impressed by all of the pupils she had spoken to and commented that she was made to feel very welcome by everyone at Uplawmoor.
We are thrilled to hear that we are indeed an Eco Friendly school and that our shabby flag willl be replaced by a new one. Well done everybody! What a fantastic achievement!
A huge congratulations to Primary 2/3 on entering a drawing competition run by the European Alliance. The theme of the competition was ‘My Region, My Traditions’ and Councillor Buchannan nominated Uplawmoor Primary to take part. Only 7 schools across Europe entered. The artwork was displayed within the ‘Committee of the Regions’ in Brussels. Our prize winners were:
1st place, Scott King
2nd place Mollie Long
3rd place Abigale Grierson.
Councillor Buchannan came to award the pupils with their prizes. Scott, Mollie and Abigale received a set of beautiful coloured pencils and the class won a Nikon camera for the school. Well done!
Mrs McKay has been contacted by Gillian Robson (nee Drennan) who is a former pupil of Eastwood High School. Following a recent ‘Farewell’ event at Eastwood, Gillian is keen to make contact with former pupils of Uplawmoor Primary School who are welcome to attend an Eastwood High school reunion to be held this year.
Gillian is looking for Primary 7 classes of Uplawmoor during 1976 – 1977, 1977 – 1978 and 1978 – 1979. Names which might jog some memories are Shade Munro, Vanda Crawford and Crawford Walker, who were all in Gillian’s year group at Eastwood High School.
As there are parents and grandparents who may read our website, we hope this message may reach the right people! The event is on the afternoon of Sunday 4th May 2014 at the Redhurst Hotel in Giffnock.
For more information, there is a facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/493027270810375
…and a website address for further information http://www.eastwoodclass78-84.org
Well, the festive celebrations are now a thing of the past and all the pupils of Uplawmoor Primary School have their brains back in action and are working hard in class.
Some of you may have been lucky enough to celebrate Burns Day on Saturday 25th January 2014. The staff and pupils are now starting to think about celebrating the life and works of Robert Burns at our Burns Competition, which will take place on Friday 28th February 2014.
The boys and girls in P4-7 are currently busy learning a song or poem which they will perform for our judges on the day. In addition, all pupils will be involved in entertaining our audience through song, dance and drama.
For more information on Robert Burns, log on to http://www.scotland.org/celebrate-scotland/burns-night
We look forward to seeing you very soon!
The staff and pupils were lucky enough to be entertained by the Eco-Committee at Friday’s assembly. They have been busy writing and and rehearsing an Eco song which they performed for the school on Friday.
They also took the time to talk to us about the Eco code as we are all making a special effort to ensure we remain an Eco friendly school and continue to look after our environment.
