Hello All, We hope you are having a wonderful start to your summer! Just wanted to send out this summer learning calendar that our district created. They may not be bored yet, but they will be! Click on this link to view the summer learning calendar: https://sites.google.com/graniteschools.org/gsd-summer-learning/home I have also attached our summer library flyers. We will have summer library ...
May 16th Updates
Hello All, As much as we're excited for summer, I need time to slow down a little! The end is coming too fast! After today, we only have 8 more days of school. I can't believe it! Our last day of school is May 29th and we will sure miss our students, especially our fifth graders who we're sending up the hill to junior high 😢. We have a lot of fun planned for the remaining days so please view the attached ...
April 23rd Updates
Updates from Upland Hello Everyone! Our end of year testing is under way with our fifth graders starting us off. Our kindergarten through second grade students wrote words of encouragement for our 3rd-5th grade students to cheer them on while they take the RISE test. If you'd like more information about the tests we take, please view the attached flyer. Upland Play ...
April 3rd Updates
Updates from Upland Hello Everyone! We hope you are all having a wonderful "spring" in spite of the snow. We're looking forward to some time off during spring break and can't wait to hear about everyone's fun adventures. As you know, spring break is April 7th - April 11th. We will return to school on Monday, April 14th. End of Year Testing When we return to school from spring break, we will be in full swing with ...
March 14th Updates
Updates from Upland Hello everyone, Our fundraiser website closes tonight at midnight. While we did not quite hit our goal, we came very close! You all raised over $24,000 for our school and most importantly, for our students. You have no idea how much this means to us. We will be able to purchase new technology that our school desperately needs, as well as start the process of creating a STEM lab in our building. Thank you all so ...
February 26th Update
Hello everyone, We have a lot going on over the next couple of weeks so I will do my best to keep you updated. Please keep reading as I have information about the PAC (boundary) study a little further down. School Fundraiser I mentioned in a previous email that we will be doing a school fundraiser during Read Across America week. Some of you may be thinking we already had a fundraiser in the fall, why are we ...
February 19th Update
Updates from Upland Hello everyone, Thank you to all who attended our SEP nights. Your support makes our jobs so much easier and we are so lucky to have a community who values education and appreciates the hard work of our teachers. Here are this week's updates. PTA Updates With the school musical coming to a close, we'd love to hear your feedback. Please take a moment to complete this survey and provide us with some ...
February 10th Update
Hello everyone, Well, we made it through another season of the Upland Terrace play. 🎉I know I will miss someone very important if I list the names of our volunteers, so I'd like to give a very wide thank you to everyone involved. You are all remarkable and insanely talented, and we're so lucky to have such a supportive community. I do need to acknowledge some major role players of the play though, as this would not have ...
Updates from Upland
Hello everyone! Even though it was a short week, I still have plenty of updates for you, so I'll just jump right into it. Celebrations Some of you saw the great news on social media, but I wanted to share it again. Mrs. Nykamp won the EXCEL teaching award that is given out by the Granite Education Foundation. She is one of nine teachers to win this award this year and we're so happy to celebrate her! I have attached a picture ...
January 13th Update
Hello Everyone, We're now into our second week of the third quarter. Report cards for the second quarter went home on Friday, January 10th. One common question we get asked is why students have such a low "Dependability" score for the Graduate of Granite standards. This is a score that we do not choose. Our online student system where we keep grades and attendance, called FOCUS, automatically enters a dependability score for all students ...