Students and staff at UHS have been delighted with this year’s Sixth Form results. 100% of students have achieved examination success with 94% of examinations entered passed with grades A-E or equivalent. Over 30% of these examinations being passed at the highest A*-B grades. Mathematics, a top performing subject celebrated 50% of students achieving A*-B grades.
Year 9 and Sixth Form students at Uxbridge High School were privileged to hear the testimony of Holocaust survivor, Uri Winterstein, as a part of a series of lessons on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in their History Lessons.
Uxbridge High School was very proud to have Stephen Kelly, Chief Operating Officer for the Government, visit the school. Mr Kelly spoke to over 100 students about his career and held a question and answer session about issues such as what skills and attributes will make students more employable in the future. He also outlined how he works with the government to deliver efficiencies, savings and reforms on behalf of UK taxpayers.
Students and a teacher from Uxbridge High School travelled to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Stratford-upon-Avon home to meet HRH The Prince of Wales and the RSC’s President on 2 June. As part of the visit, HRH experienced the work of the RSC’s Learning and Performance Network, which stretches throughout the country and involves over 400,000 students and their teachers. Each school works with the RSC and their local theatre to create the best experience of Shakespeare in the classroom and in performance for young people.
Uxbridge High School students in Year 9 and 10 attended a graduation ceremony at Newnham College, part of the University of Cambridge on Monday 12th May. Each of the students involved had recently completed and passed a 2000 word assignment on either international relations or the growth and death of cancer cells. However, the students had a little help along the way in the form of two PhD students from leading universities who tutored the students through six university-style sessions, which took place on university campuses and the Uxbridge High School site.
Teachers from Uxbridge and Harefield met the Prime Minister at Downing Street to celebrate all that is great about state education.
Uxbridge High School Year 9 students visited Ypres in Belgium to commemorate the centenary of World War One last week. The students have been studying the war in their History lessons and the trip was to both complement their academic work and offer an experience of the topic beyond the classroom.