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On Wednesday 15th October, ten Key Stage 4 students represented Uxbridge High School in the first round of the West London Debating League. Eight of the students had already attended a workshop hosted by the University of Oxford and over the last fortnight they have been honing their skills in time for the opening round of the competition. The team performed admirably on the night, speaking confidently, intellectually and persuasively about two motions (one of which was only released fifteen minutes prior to the debate).

Wasim Jabbar and Ehtisham Imran both achieved marks for the ifs University College in Financial Studies that were in the top 1% of all 7000 students taking the qualification in the country. In recognition of this achievement they have been offered a scholarship of £750 each should they decide to continue their studies with the college by enrolling on a degree programme next summer.

The Prince’s Teaching Institute (PTI) launched the Schools Programme in 2007 to recognise and reward school departments that develop inspirational ideas and activities which enhance the teaching of Art, English, History, Geography, Science, Mathematics, Modern Foreign Languages and Music, regardless of their students’ backgrounds or abilities. It is run as a membership group for school departments that choose to commit to increasing the challenge of their subject provision.

Staff were thrilled to welcome Roy Blatchford as guest speaker at our training day on 3rd September.

Roy has worked in nearly every sector of education from the classroom to Whitehall. During the past forty years he has been a teacher, headteacher, school governor, Government adviser, director of various educational charities, Ofsted inspector, national trainer and keynote speaker. Roy was Her Majesty’s Inspector of Schools in England, with lead responsibility for school improvement and for the national inspection of good and outstanding schools. More recently, he has helped establish inspection and school review systems in New York, Dubai and Mumbai. Roy is a Visiting Fellow at Oxford Brookes University.

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.

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.