DNA link-up at Pre-Prep
Biology Society members from the Senior School have visited the Pre-Prep to teach the younger pupils about DNA, in an example of the mutually beneficial partnership between the UCS Foundation schools.
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Coming soon: ‘The Scottish play’
This term’s Middle School Production is Macbeth, Shakespeare’s classic tale known as ‘the Scottish play’, with tickets now on sale and the cast promising an ambitious production featuring an original score by a UCS pupil.
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Computer whizzes reach final
UCS pupils scored merits and distinctions in the prestigious Oxford Computing Challenge – and two students impressed sufficiently to finish in the top 20 nationally for their respective age groups and progress to next month’s final.
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Heart January beats winter blues
UCS pupils were more than equal to the challenge of ‘Heart January’, as they deployed a positive and proactive attitude to complete the five tasks of the winter health and wellbeing programme introduced by the Director of Sport.
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UCS pupils’ movie nomination
Among the honours recently obtained by UCS pupils, we can reveal that the UCS participants in a film-making day were shortlisted for a prestigious Young Film Academy award.
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Junior Branch share love of music
No Autumn Term at the UCS Junior Branch is complete without the traditional Autumn Concert in the Great Hall – and this year’s fabulous edition set a high standard for the school’s Performing Arts in 2023–24.
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OG Netball Club growing fast
Fifteen years after girls first joined the UCS Sixth Form, the school’s alumni have launched a netball club which, thanks to the enthusiasm of alumni, UCS mums, friends and the local community, is making impressive progress.
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The Gower tells tale of 2022–23
The last academic year at the UCS Senior School, Junior Branch and Pre-Prep, with its “fantastic education and opportunities”, is documented across the pages of newly published school magazine, The Gower.
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Tennis aces lift title
UCS have lifted the Lawn Tennis Association’s national schools title for Year 7 & 8 Boys after an accomplished team proved too strong for opponents from Birmingham, Somerset and Glasgow during finals weekend in Bolton.
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Partnerships win approval
UCS are celebrating Partnerships Week and have received official endorsement from the Independent Schools Council for two of the Senior School’s projects run in collaboration with partner state schools.
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