Twitter Headquarters
Published 19/11/19
On Tuesday 15th October, twenty-five Year 10 students visited the Twitter HQ in central London.
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Read MoreTarget Mars Science Trip
Published 19/11/19On Monday 14th October, five Year 9 students attended the Target Mars workshop at Brunel University. The aim of this trip was for students to develop an understanding of how to survive on Mars and what life would be like onboard the International Space Station, this was all whilst competing against other schools through a range of science activities.
Read MoreSixth Form Enrolment and Start of Autumn Term 2019
Published 22/08/19Sixth form enrolment - 28th to 30th August from 9am to 12noon.
Thursday 5th September - Students from Years 7, 11 and Sixth form return
Friday 6th September - Students from Years 8, 9 and 10 return
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UHS GCSE RESULTS 2019
Published 22/08/19Students and staff at Uxbridge High School are delighted with this year’s GCSE results.
GCSE examinations across the board now have been revised and all now use the grading system of 9- 1, where 9 is the highest grade achievable. Grade 4 is considered to be a ‘standard pass’ and Grade 5, a ‘strong pass’
Our students’ English and maths scores are high as expected. In English, 60% of students achieved grades 9-5 and 72% achieved 9-4. In maths, 44% achieved 9-5 and 67% achieved 9-4. Combining both English and maths, 40% achieved 9-5 and 61% achieved 9-4. 10% of our students achieved the highest grades of 8 or 9 in English and/or maths.
The sciences have maintained outstanding results with 98% achieving 9-5 in triple science (biology, chemistry and physics) and combined science scoring highly. We are delighted to have exceeded national averages in English, maths and sciences and in a number of measures.
A number of our students also achieved the top grades in a range of academic subjects (EBacc) and across the wider curriculum, we are delighted that our performing arts, art, music and sports students were rewarded with high percentages of top 9-5 grades.
Particular congratulations to Patrik Limani, who achieved an incredible 9 grade 9s and Holly Parrish who achieved 8 grade 9s and 1 grade 8. Both of these students will be recognised as in the top 1000 performers in the country. Other high performers include:
Read MoreUHS POST 16 RESULTS
Published 15/08/19Students and staff at Uxbridge High School are delighted with this year’s sixth form results, 100% of students achieved examination success. 98% of exams entered received a grade A*- E or equivalent and 33% of the examinations were passed at the highest A*- B grades. We have also seen a year on year increase in students achieving the highest grades.
History, maths, further maths, physics, business and finance were among our top performing subjects, with a majority achieving the highest A*- B grades. Students performed very strongly in other facilitating subjects, including geography, opening opportunities for students to take places at top Russell Group universities.
This year’s high flying students include:
Read MoreWriting History with style!
Published 08/07/19Over the past couple of weeks Y7 pupils have been crafting stylish pieces of analytical history writing. Their work, which has focussed on the impact of the terrifying Black Death on England’s medieval villages, has included dramatic role-plays
Read MoreEdTech (Education Technology)
Published 08/07/19Uxbridge High School has been embracing with world of EdTech (Education Technology). Students have used Interland, a fun program created by Google which teaches the modern fundamentals of digital safety and citizenship through hands-on practice as we
Read MoreAlpe D’Huez, France SKI TRIP 2019
Published 25/04/199 days, 8 nights. 36 hours on a coach. Daily 7.15am alarm. 24 hours of ski lessons. 24 times back and forth to the ski slopes (carrying skis and poles). Many a pain au chocolat for breakfast. Quite a few sunburnt faces. Multiple falls, many a challen
Read MoreWE Day
Published 25/04/19On 6th March, 13 students attended the UK celebration of WE Day - a world-wide gathering of students from all backgrounds who come together to 'Get Doing' for the betterment of their school, their community and the whole world. WE Day is a global movement that was inspired by the tragic death of Iqbal Masih, to create change in an individualised world. WE Day brings large corporations, charitable organisations and schools together to do more for the world around them.
Students heard from Naomi Campbell on the importance of activism as young people; Nicole Scherzinger on empowering yourself through communication; Iskra Lawrence on self-esteem and self-belief and Nadja Swarovski on the importance of maintaining our planet through conserving water. They also heard from the Duke of Sussex.
Read MoreGerman Revision Conference
Published 01/04/19On Monday 11th March, thirteen GCSE German students travelled to London to take part in a revision conference. Students had the opportunity to ask questions to an examiner and gain some tips and tricks to help prepare them for their forthcoming German exams.
Their listening and pronunciation skills were put to the test as they joined in with some German tongue twisters, including the challenging "Sascha schickt sich selbst schicke Schuhe vom Schuhgeschäft im Schwarzwald". They also practiced some of the core skills, such as being able to describe a photo and translating from German into English.
All students received a pack full of useful vocabulary and reminders about tenses, word order and pronunciation, and can use this to help push themselves towards the top grades in their exams!
Read MoreThe Great Big Dance Off
Published 08/02/19Fifteen girls from Years 7 & 8 entered The Great Big Dance Off at the beginning of the year, which they gained a place at through their video submission. After becoming successful in their audition, the students then had the opportunity to take p
Read MoreHillingdon Dance Festival
Published 08/02/19On Wednesday 30th January, fifteen girls from Year 7 and Year 8 competed in the Hillingdon Dance Festival, held at Bishopshalt School. They competed against different schools from the local area for the opportunity to enter the London Youth Games Final.