Wherever there are children with high spirits and the joy of rising to the challenge, occasional accidents will happen. In this young boy’s case,…
Wherever there are children with high spirits and the joy of rising to the challenge, occasional accidents will happen. In this young boy’s case,…
Clean water is essential for good health, everywhere in the world, but this can be difficult to achieve at times. When we first became…
We were very excited to receive these photos from School Director Elius in early June – Uphill Junior School now has electricity! Power for…
Whenever I say I am going to visit Uganda for the Uphill Trust, those who know my profession immediately say, “Ah, you’ll be going…
When you think of school transport you probably think of a white minibus, or one of those yellow American school buses, and Uphill Junior…
Sometimes it’s the simple things that bring the greatest rewards. As there is no electrical power at Uphill (yet) and it was the rainy…
We were very privileged to introduce independent film maker and photographer Geraint Hill to Uphill Junior School during our recent trustee visit. By happy…
All private schools in Uganda are expected to have at least one health care provider on site to attend to the first aid needs…
Uganda is full of micro-enterprises, and making beads for paper bead jewellery is just one of them. The trust has forged a strong relationship…
The new McNabb classroom block was completed in August 2016, just in time for the beginning of the final term of the school year….
Event 1 – 2015 On Saturday 17 October the day dawned clear and cold and ‘Danny the Paralympian’ and three members of The Uphill…
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…
In 2017 a large amount of school and trustee effort was directed towards liaising with officials from the Ministry of Education and various local…
Meet the Uphill Marathon Runners 2017! The Stirling Scottish Marathon, being held for the very first time in May 2017 and pretty much on…
Catriona Laird, Scottish illustrator and comic artist, has written and illustrated a lovely book called Patience Goes Uphill. Catriona is Liddy’s daughter and has been…
Another in our series of posts about the children being helped by the Pupil Support Fund: L has four brothers and one sister and…
When the Uphill Trust came into being, Uphill Junior School comprised a wooden building on a rented site in the centre of Iruhuura Trading…
Blog post by Liddy Laird I’m sure many of us had an inspirational teacher during our days at school or university. These teachers made…
North of Scotland junior tennis players Katie, Katie, Rosie and Niamh, along with their coach Steven Birrell, organised MUDDY MAYHEM – a sponsored assault…
During the first part of 2016, when the McNabb Classroom Block was under construction, it became clear that a good quality security fence was…
