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On Thursday 17th November, 24 Sixth Form students offered to act as volunteers at a Christmas shopping event in Uxbridge High Street. During the day they assisted elderly people to do their Christmas shopping. The event was organised by the town centre minister and we were one of several secondary schools that had been asked to assist on the day.

On 20th November 2017, twenty four students from Year 12 were invited to PWC Head Quarters for an insight day. The visit equipped the students with the knowledge, skills and confidence to access careers at top companies.

Our newest UHS Art Teacher, Miss Smyth, arranged and planned for the Year 10s to visit the Natural History Museum in London on Wednesday 8 th November 2017.

As part of the HET national initiative, every Sixth Form can send two students and one teacher to visit the concentration and death camps in Poland. This trip took place on 7th November 2017 and the purpose of the trip was to start to unravel the complex nature of anti-Semitism in Europe throughout history and how the Holocaust was not the start of such genocidal activity, but rather a culmination of centuries of maltreatment. Fundamentally, it was to remember the victims and to retell their personal stories – to see the personal nature of the Holocaust, rather than focussing on the shocking statistics. It is only when we can put names and faces to this tragedy that we can begin to humanise it.

On 11th October, six students from Year 12 were invited to Brunel University to take part in ‘The Trouble with Science is Ethics’ workshop. The workshop started with the students having to make their minds up over some of the biggest ethical questions in science, which included discussions through role play, a continuum game and presentations.