Upsala Area Schools

Completing two more home games has given us the opportunity to have a few more bench buddies! Our athletes always look forward to our bench buddies and being their biggest role models! It's more than the game.

The volleyball team is once again a Gold Academic Team. Way to continue great things in the classroom. Team awards and academic awards were given out at a recent banquet. Congrats!

High Schoolers came down to read to the first graders today.😁

Saturday we inducted two new members into our Upsala Lions Club Hall of Fame. Congratulations to both Loren Holthaus and Kimmy Mrozek on this achievement, very well deserved! #CardinalPride

Our winter newsletter has gone out with a slightly different delivery system. People with addresses in Swanville, Grey Eagle and Burtrum will receive theirs as an insert from the Long Prairie Leader. Everyone else will get theirs in the mail as usual. As always, you can download a pdf version from our website: https://www.upsala.k12.mn.us/page/newsletters

Our first 3 bench buddies of the season helped us pull out the 54-53 win against ACGC last night at our home opener! Always great seeing them interact with our players!

Reminder: Tomorrow (Saturday, Dec. 2) will be a boys' and girls' basketball doubleheader in Upsala. The girls will play at 2:30pm and the boys will play at 4:00pm. Both JV squads will play at 1:00pm in separate gyms. Also, there will be a Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the conclusion of the girls varsity game to honor two new inductees into the Upsala Hall of Fame!

Shoes, glorious shoes! A huge thank you to THE ENDURANCE SHOP, St. Cloud, for the generous shoe donation!! You can still bring new and gently used shoes to the school commons through April to support the Ireland/Scotland trip.

First graders made flowers today in science while talking about light.

Welcome to the Shoe Tying Club, Jayden! Great job!

Girls' Basketball kicks off their season opener tonight against Brandon-Evansville. The game will be at the Evansville school (123 2nd Ave W, Evansville MN). Good luck this season Cardinals!

Today students had to make ten layups straight from each side, then make 8-10 free throws, and finally 4-5 three pointers.

Have you heard, that our elementary 5th grade is piloting our first competitive LEGO Robotics team! We have 9 students piloting the event, and Team #64211 - the Upsala Cardinals - will be going to a competition in Bemidji on December 15th! More information to follow!

Mrs. Robertson's Independent Living class has been working hard this semester. one of the latest assignments they had was learning how to tie neck ties. Each student needed to tie their own 3 times, Here is the finished results!

Here's the school lunch menu for December. A pdf version can be downloaded from the Food & Nutrition page of our website: https://www.upsala.k12.mn.us/page/food-nutrition

Upsala Dollars for Scholars Taco in a Bag Fundraiser Saturday December 2nd during the Boys and Girls Doubleheader Basketball Game! Taco in a Bag-$5.00 Serving 1pm-5pm Includes all the Fixings with Lemonade to Drink

Happy Thanksgiving! English 9-12 students shared things they are thankful for.

First grade turkeys!

If you're thinking about buying a high school yearbook but haven't pulled the trigger yet, do it now! After Friday the price will increase from $54+tax to $59+tax. 88 full-color pages of memories from the 2023-24 school year! Order online at JostensYearbooks.com.

Our 7th and 9th Grade Health classes had the opportunity to learn about where our breakfast and lunches come from and why we get served certain amounts of food to keep us happy and healthy. A HUGE thank you to Head Cook Alice and her crew for teaching us about nutrition in school