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On 10^th October 2015, ten students from Year 11 and 12 participated in the Urban Scholars scheme at Brunel University. Brunel offer the scheme with the aim of enhancing student academic performance, aspirations and life chances. It runs over five workshops across the year and students at Uxbridge High School thoroughly enjoyed their first event.

Brunel describe their programme as follows:

The Urban Scholars Scheme is an intervention programme, which aims to work through strong partnerships with local authorities, schools and parents to create challenging and enriching experiences for able and potentially able students who need additional opportunities to enhance their academic performance, self - confidence, critical thinking, team work and presentational skills.

Thursday 24th September to Saturday 26th September was our RSC Year 3 Residential Trip, where teachers and students travelled to Stratford-Upon-Avon to complete workshops with Royal Shakespeare Company on how to develop our Dream Festival that will be held in March.

The first day included an introduction to A Midsummer Night’s Dream and a visit from David Tennant. Friday was a full day of workshops that focused on the production elements of the Festival and included a session on voice, marketing, stage management, design and music. We were then treated to a fantastic performance of Henry V in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. On Saturday we put all our new knowledge in to practice and worked with the RSC Musical Director to perform a short scene.

The Assistant Director of Henry V gave us interesting feedback and then presented the students with certificates, confirming their new Student Shakespeare Ambassador status. We also found time to visit Shakespeare’s birthplace and try on costumes in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre!

Students and staff at Uxbridge High School have been delighted with KS4 results this year.  Record numbers of students have achieved the highest grades.  Our top performers include: Haazim Tungekar      &nbs

On 9^th July 2015, Year 9 and a group of Sixth Form students at Uxbridge High School were privileged to hear the testimony of Holocaust survivor Hannah Lewis as a part of a series of lessons on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in their History Lessons.

 

Hannah, who was just a young girl during the war, spoke to a packed hall of students. Born in June 1937 in Wlodawa, Poland, Hannah was an only child and the much loved daughter of Adam and Haya. Hannah had a happy and uneventful childhood until war broke out and the Nazis occupied Poland. Increasingly Wlodawa began to fill up with Jews trying to find a safer place outside large cities and became full of refugees. In 1943 Hannah and her family were rounded up and on foot walked to a work camp in a village called Adampol which was a few miles from Wlodawa. Over time most of her family disappeared. Her father and his cousin managed to escape and joined the Partisans. Only Hannah and her mother remained in Adampol. Hannah’s mother was eventually killed in an Einsatzgruppen action and Hannah remained in the camp and survived as best she could. Hannah was finally liberated in 1945 by a Russian soldier.

 

Every year Uxbridge High School works with the Holocaust Educational Trust, and two 6th Form students visit Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp as part of the ‘Lessons from Auschwitz’ project. At the end of her talk Hannah stayed for an extra 30 minutes to answer the many questions asked by the Year 9 students.

On Thursday 11th June 2015, a group of UHS high achieving students visited the Oxford Union. The Oxford Union is a historic institution that has hosted politicians, historians, philosophers and many of the greatest minds of the last 600 years.

The following students were recipients of the Principal’s Award for Spring 2015: