| Dillon Birdi | 7xLA |
| Mawahib Elmi | 7xLA |
| Sahara Momin | 8xLA |
| Harry White | 8xLA |
| Sharmin Sikder | 8yLA |
| Cameron Plumpton | 8yLA |
| Leah Withers | 9xLA |
| Faysal Awan | 9xLA |
| Warsame Jibril | 9yLA |
| Saira Naseem | 9yLA |
| Paras Raichura | 10yLA |
| Sandra San | 10yLA |
| Christine Todd | 7xST |
| Matthew Cox | 7xST |
| Toya Humphries | 7yST |
| Adam Mamujee | 7yST |
| Paige Fitzpatrick | 8yST |
| James Orriss | 8yST |
| Tijana Sevic | 9yST |
| Michael Ochieng | 9yST |
| Erica Almeida | 9xST |
| Munraj Bhangra | 9xST |
| Diante Degrasse | 10xST |
| Mia Donoghue | 10xST |
| Danel Kaliyeva | 7xTU |
| Harvinder Dhillon | 7xTU |
| Dean Cochrane | 7yTU |
| Renee Swinfield | 7yTU |
| Fatima Ja'Afaru | 8xTU |
| Sky Liu | 8xTU |
| Sarah Marwan | 9yTU |
| Adam Green | 9yTU |
| Ala Witek | 9xTU |
| Thomas Howat | 9xTU |
| Ashvin Govindarasan | 10yTU |
| Esme Henry | 10yTU |
| Kai McFerran | 10xTU |
| Tahera Ahmed | 10xTU |
| Hamza Ahmed | 7xWI |
| Saskia Murphy | 7xWI |
| Jasraj Eari | 7yWI |
| Leah Clegg | 7yWI |
| Kamile Ziukelyte | 8xWI |
| Morgan Parmar | 8xWI |
| Josh Mann | 8yWI |
| Bonnie Banks | 8yWI |
| Kym Pomeroy | 9yWI |
| Luis Garcia | 9yWI |
| Rithik Bagga | 10yWI |
| Fatima Mondeh | 10yWI |
| Hasina Majithia | 10xWI |
| Victor John | 10xWI |
| Chloe Raeburn | 7yYO |
| Owen Argent | 7yYO |
| Yordan Nikolov | 8yYO |
| Chloe Sturgeon | 8yYO |
| Joanna Bielecka | 8xYO |
| Jacob Hunting | 8xYO |
| Belle Stokes | 9xYO |
| Pijus Grigaitis | 9xYO |
| Kavilash Jeyarajah | 10xYO |
| Brooke Mott | 10xYO |
| Mikolaj Kapala | 10yYO |
| Freya Bell | 10yYO |
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The following five students: Lola Onalaja; Batool Naqvi; Faisa Ahmed; Radim Asil and Athikur Chowdry, had an amazing opportunity on Monday 30th November, where they visited the Royal College of Surgeons.
This self-directed visit gave the students a chance to explore how to apply for medicine, learn different types of medicine and have the opportunity to ask questions to a panel of medical students. They also took part in mini workshops that will assist them with suturing, laparoscopic and interview skills.
The students thrived from the experience and feedback and pleased that it gave them an excellent insight to medicine and assisted them on future education and career decisions.
21 Sixth Form students offered to act as volunteers at a Christmas shopping event on Thursday, 19th November 2015 in Uxbridge High Street. During the day they assisted elderly people with 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 support on the day.
After assisting the guests with their shopping, the students took their elderly guest to the Middlesex Suite at Uxbridge Civic Centre for a Christmas lunch. Everyone, including volunteers and accompanying staff, were treated to a meal. Whilst all guest ate their lunch, local primary schools sang Christmas carols.
A special guest made an appearance and presented each elderly person with a Christmas gift to complete a lovely day.
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Six sixth form students, Aisha McPherson, Nathan McGreeghan, Chloe Allen, Charlie Tomkins, Sanije Sylejmani and Sanah Sacranie, devised a drama piece on anti-bullying and performed it in front of 120 students at Whitehall Junior School on Wednesday 18th November 2015.
The performance was followed by two successful workshops, teaching the primary students successful methods for tackling bullying. The event was part of the sixth formers’ Theatre In Education project, that they have been working on since late September.
The performance was well received by staff and students at Whitehall Junior School, with one member of staff asking if they were a professional touring theatre company.
Debating victory!
This year Uxbridge High School, defending champions of the West London Schools’ Debating League, had more students than ever taking part, and victoriously too; winning nine first places and comfortably scoring First Place School overall.
The sixteen students, from across Key Stages 4 and 5, competed in the first round against schools such as Langley Academy, Villiers High School, Harlington School and Rosedale Academy.
It was the first debating experience for most and all performed exceptionally well. Students had prepared the motion “This House Believes Surveillance Has Gone Too Far”. The teams performed with confidence and poise, especially in their interpretations of the motion and rebuttal to opposing teams. The second debate was on an unseen topic, “This House Believes We Should Decriminalize Drugs”. Here we benefited from the advice of our student coaches Mohammed Khan and Athikur Choudhury. The teams did particularly well, scoring 1st or 2nd place in many debates. Particular mention must go to Suidi Mohamed and Sumaya Dhashane for feisty, yet impressive performances!
Many students received well-deserved praise from judges, with standout performances going to those who won straight first places: Alex Old, Esme Henry, Vishal Joshi, Gurleen Arora, Callum McGloin, and Gloria Feudjo Tepie.
Other strong performances came from Kara Shipperly and Rosa Beishon, who scored 1st and 2nd place; to Aathithan Luckeeswaran and Hans Aukhaj for their perceptive summary speeches; and to Arjola Idrizi and Farhana Choudhury for their teamwork and challenging Points of Interest delivered to the opposing sides.
Many congratulations to all the students taking part.
Fourteen UHS Sixth Form students, with their English teacher, Ms Yiola Rizava, attended an advocacy training exercise (a criminal trial) at Brunel University.
Brunel law school students played the roles of witnesses, the complainant (victim) and the defendant (accused), and acted as members of the board (or jury), in a trial for assault causing serious bodily harm. The law students were examined by professional advocates working for the Service Prosecuting Authority (SPA), who prepared and presented both the prosecution and defence cases for this trial.
The trial took place at Brunel Law School’s moot court. The proceedings were presided by Mr Bruce Houlder CB QC DL, as acting Judge Advocate, first and the former Director of the SPA. Mr Andrew Cayley CMG QC, Director of Service Prosecutions (DSP since Oct 2013), along with several other experienced SPA officers, were in attendance.
After the event, the sixth formers had the opportunity to put questions to the law students about their experience of the trial and studying at Brunel more generally. They also met with law academics and the SPA lawyers, who are all accomplished professionals completing formal further training [via a thorough induction programme] at the SPA.
This is a review that one of our Year 12 students, Hans Aukhaj wrote about the event:
Brunel University and the Law School were very pleased to welcome the UHS students to this event, and look forward to further collaboration in the near future.
Students at Uxbridge High received an experience like no other, alongside Brunel law students.
Students at Uxbridge High were given the opportunity by Ms Rizava to witness a mock trial hosted by the Service Prosecuting Authority. The experience was provided courtesy of the senior lecturer in the Brunel Law School, Dr Giannoulopoulos. The venue for the event happened to be Brunel University, so it wasn’t far for the students to travel.
We were welcomed at Brunel by Dr Giannoulopoulos, who directed us into the room where the mock trial had begun. The moment we entered the room we all felt the tension between the defendant and the prosecutor. The mock case was of two military personnel (one pregnant female soldier and one male soldier). As the case goes, there was a small argument between the two, which meant the case was categorized as an ABH (Actual Bodily Harm) case.
Throughout the evening we were treated with the highest level of hospitality by the members of staff, the SPA and the law students. After the mock trial had ended we were given the chance to converse with the Brunel students and ask them for advice on their course. The Brunel students allowed us to gain an insight on to what studying law consisted of, or more specifically law at Brunel.