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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.

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.

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.