Upsala Area Schools

If you ordered your "State Bound" USA Football shirt in the first window (before last Sunday at midnight) - they will be ready for pickup tomorrow morning starting at 7:00am at the school office. Reminder that your shirt(s) will be delivered to Upsala or Swanville, depending on what choice you made at checkout. There will be a pep fest at 9:00am in the Upsala gymnasium, followed by an escort out of town at 9:30am. The boys will then have a pep fest and similar send off in Swanville from 9:45am to 10:15am, followed with another escort out of Swanville. Good luck to all of our players and coaches tomorrow in the State Tournament Quarterfinal!

The fall play is coming up, and the Upsala Drama Club will be presenting "Just Another High School Play" by Bryan Starchman. The plot has a group of high school actors who have apparently been abandoned by their drama teacher. They are left to fend for themselves opening night in front of a live audience. No one is really quite sure what they are supposed to do. The student assistant director and the stage manager step in, find a box of scripts which they pass out to the cast, and try to throw something together. Performances are scheduled for November 15 & 16 at 7:30pm in the auditorium.

Quinn Guthrie takes 33rd in state (16:59) and Dawson takes 41st (17:03). It was another amazing year for the Holdingford/Upsala team.

There will be an early out on Thursday due to the football game. Students will be released at noon. See the attached letter for more info.

Here are the details for the USA Patriots' state tournament quarterfinal matchup against Parkers Prairie this upcoming Thursday! Location: Rock Ridge High School Time: Kickoff @ 6:00pm Tickets: Adults - $13.00, Students $9.00 Tickets will only be available through Go Fan Ticketing, an online platform that will be posted below with the link provided. https://gofan.co/event/1707020?schoolId=MSHSL Streaming will be provided by NSPN.TV, the official stream partner of the Minnesota State High School League. That link will also be provided - it is $10 per month or $30 per year. https://nspn.tv/MSHSL Good luck to our USA Patriots as they continue their season into the Class A State Tournament!

Here is the link for the USA Football State Bound/Section Champion t-shirts again if you missed the first order. This order will be delivered on Thursday, November 14th. If you ordered before this past Sunday at midnight, those shirts will be delivered to the schools some time this Wednesday and an announcement will be made if they can be picked up at the end of the day on Wednesday or if Thursday morning will work better. https://usafootball2.itemorder.com/

Class A State Tournament Seeding - Finalized This Morning North 1) Upsala-Swanville Area 2) Mahnomen/Waubun 3) Deer River 4) Parkers Prairie South 1) Minneota 2) Goodhue 3) Springfield 4) Lester Prairie We will know more on locations and times by noon today (Saturday). It is looking like the Patriots will be traveling to Rock Ridge on Thursday, though. Tickets will be available and posted for purchase at noon as well. Streaming will only be provided through NSPN, which requires an annual purchase of $30 or a monthly purchase of $10. The link for that is below. More information to come soon! https://nspn.tv/MSHSL

There will be an escort into both towns tonight for the football team! The boys will head to Swanville first and be escorted in by the fire department at approximately 5:30pm. They will stop in the parking lot and embrace cheers and congratulations -- then head to Upsala with the escort team and arrive at approximately 6:00pm and do the same thing coming down Main Street in Upsala! We will have a more accurate time posted as soon as we know in the comments below. #PatriotPride!!

On Thursday, the 4 year old preschool class got to play BOO! Bowling! Since the weather was uncertain that morning, we weren't able to visit Vitality Living of Upsala . We still made them art to wish them a Happy Halloween!

On Wednesday, the 4 year old preschool class visited Vitality Living of Upsala to celebrate Halloween! We shared fall songs, fall pictures, and lots fall fun!

Here is the November school lunch menu. As always, a pdf version can be downloaded from our Food & Nutrition web page: https://www.upsala.k12.mn.us/page/food-nutrition

The 7th graders decided on cops and robbers as their Halloween theme for advisory. Great job dressing up!

Halloween Parade (Part 1)

As of today, the 3rd grade class holds on to the "Great Sportsmanship" trophy and the "Fastest Class" trophy. Stay tuned in to see who can earn them next.

Corn hole or bean bags, call it what you want, but we had our Primus brother duo win the tournament in Team Sports Class!

What do Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney, Michael Jordan and Albert Einstein have in common? Failure. They were able to respond and overcome their failures. If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new. Famous failures discussion was held in Gr. 9 advisory

Upsala Area Schools will be having our annual Halloween Parade at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 31st in the main gym.

**Update** Please make sure you update your Contact information about the School's Telephone Number. Starting November 1 - There will be only one School Phone Number for calling in - 320-573-2174. After the Start of Nov. 1 all other inbound lines will be disabled. Thank you!

Here are the details for the USA Patriots' section final matchup against BBE this upcoming Friday! Location: Fargodome - Fargo, North Dakota Time: Kickoff @ 10:00am Tickets: Adults - $11:00, Students - $6.00 ... Children under the age of 5 admitted for free. Tickets will only be available for purchase via cash at the venue, they will have an ATM located inside if needed. Upsala and Swanville have both decided to opt-in to the streaming options, meaning we will have a stream available for those that can't make it. It will be on the Swanville Activities YouTube channel, located below. PACK THE DOME! GO PATRIOTS! https://www.youtube.com/@swanvilleactivities4443

This morning the yearbook class met with a graphic designer to help design the cover of this year's high school book - and we're very happy with the result! If you haven't ordered your book yet, you can do so at JostensYearbooks.com. The price will go up again later in November.