All private schools in Uganda are expected to have at least one health care provider on site to attend to the first aid needs of the children. For the past two years, health care has been available on an intermittent basis in Iruhuura Trading Centre by Bagonza Evester, a qualified nursing assistant, and Nurse Eve, as […]
The new McNabb classroom block was completed in August 2016, just in time for the beginning of the final term of the school year. The walls were still bare brick and there was a cavernous roof space over all three classrooms, but the teachers and pupils were keen to move in – the teaching space […]
Finally, we have a playground for Kindergarten! We don’t yet have permanent buildings for the Uphill Kindergarten but, after much deliberation, we decided that a temporary playground made from old car tyres and wooden poles would be the best way forward in the short term as the wooden kindergarten classroom is also temporary and not […]
In 2017 a large amount of school and trustee effort was directed towards liaising with officials from the Ministry of Education and various local government departments, as we worked towards obtaining a private school licence for Uphill Junior School. This is not as easy as it may seem and much of the year has been […]
When the Uphill Trust came into being, Uphill Junior School comprised a wooden building on a rented site in the centre of Iruhuura Trading Centre. It soon became clear that one of the first priorities for the trust would be to find a permanent site for the school, and the hunt for suitable land was […]
During the first part of 2016, when the McNabb Classroom Block was under construction, it became clear that a good quality security fence was needed around the school site as a matter of urgency. In the short term, it was essential to keep domestic livestock away from the new building (cow prints in the new […]
Uphill Junior School is located in the village of Iruhuura, in the crater lake hills 35km south of the town of Fort Portal in western Uganda and 5km off the Fort Portal-Kamwenge Road. The remote location is one of the challenges facing both the school and The Uphill Trust. The route to the school from Uganda’s capital city, Kampala, involves […]
