On 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.
Sixth 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
Students 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:
Students 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:
On 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.
On 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!
On 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.
On Tuesday 22nd January, nine students from Year 7 attended the annual borough basketball tournament at Queensmead School in high spirits.