UCS pupils and those from other schools were privileged to hear from Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert and her grandson
@DovForman
this evening during a moving talk organised by UCS JSOC. Thank you, Lily and Dov.
Mr Vliegen had the two 3D printers from the DT at
@UCSHampstead
working throughout last week making
#visors
for local
#NHS
workers. Almost 60 have now been made. Once the elastic handbands arrive, they will be delivered.
What a way to start the final week of the academic year. We are pleased to learn that
@UCSHampstead
has been shortlisted for the
@ISParent
Independent Schools of the Year Awards. Congratulations to the pupils, Old Gowers & staff.
#isoty
@UCSHeadteacher
This is one of the loveliest gestures I’ve seen from a class. Inspired by Mr Orchard’s teaching of Brideshead Revisited, his Upper Sixth class who leave UCS tomorrow, filled his office with flowers. Unlike Sebastian Flyte in the novel, they had nothing to apologise for!
The sun is out in Devon & the Entry are loving the first day of their trip to Skern Lodge. High ropes, tunnels, archery & zip line. It’s now time for dinner!
May Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth rest in peace after all her years of exemplary service to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. The UCS community sends its deepest condolences to the Royal Family.
A huge thanks to our maintenance staff who've worked hard to create a safe school environment for all, as far as possible. Spare masks, sanitising stations, protective perspex screens and signage with clear guidance is consistent across the site. Keep yourselves and others safe.
The latest batch of donations from
@UCSHampstead
have just been delivered to local care homes & hospital. 3300 gloves and 151 sets of eye protection. Great to also meet so many positive people doing so much great work. Inspiring.
#ThankYouNHS
@AgeUKCamden
@RoyalFreeNHS
Thank you to
#hampstead
MP
@TulipSiddiq
who inspired our pupils and visiting pupils from
@UCL_Academy
&
@WestminsterAca
on Friday with her tales from parliament. An insightful talk & there were some great questions from the floor. Read more about it here:
Congratulations to the class of 2019! 84 pupils achieved 3 A grades (or better) at A-Level & a fantastic 93% of grades were A*, A or B. Well done everyone! Read more about the results here:
@ISC_schools
@HMC_Org
#alevelresultsday
@UCSHeadteacher
May we wish our pupils, parents & staff a safe and restful bank holiday weekend. Engagement with UCS Virtual has been so impressive over the last fortnight but do try to go screen free over the next 3 days. See you all on Monday.
@UCSAcademicDep
@UCSPastoralDep
We are so proud of all of our Sixth Formers who collected A Level and Pre U results today. Your contributions to our school community extend far beyond exam results but today you can be truly proud of what you have achieved.
Actress and playwright Danai Gurira was chosen by a pupil for her outstanding acting in The Walking Dead and Black Panther, as well as her play Eclipsed.
#IWD2022
The tower of donations is growing. 45 mins into the collection and there are now 31 boxes of food & sanitary products ready to be delivered to
@NPFoodbank
- donations are still flooding in. Thank you everyone!
Congratulations to our pupils on their record breaking GCSE results.
⭐️40% of grades were 9s
⭐️72% of grades were 8 or 9
⭐️21% of pupils achieved straight 8s & 9s
Read more about the results here:
@ISC_schools
@HMC_Org
@UCSHeadteacher
#gcseresultsday2019
#Mufti
Day
#food
and toiletries
#collection
has started very strongly this morning as we’re aiming topple last year’s effort for
@NPFoodbank
. Great to see so many students working together to organise the proceedings! 👌🏽👏🏼
Congratulations to our Year 11 pupils on their excellent GCSE results. We are now looking forward to you returning as Sixth Formers on 2nd September. Read more about the results here:
Congratulations to former UCS pupil, Nadir, who has been awarded the Stelios Scholarship at the London School of Economics. What fantastic news. Read more here:
@LSEnews
@UCSEconomics
@OldGowers
(📸 prelockdown)
Thank you to our families & neighbours in
#Hampstead
who have donated 62 boxes of food over 2 days at our
#foodbank
drop off. These will be delivered to
@NPFoodbank
& the drop off point is open again on Friday: 10am-3pm. Thank you!
@ISC_Community
@HMC_Org
We're very proud of our leaving Sixth who collected their A Level results today. They really are a fantastic year group who we'll miss so much! Find out more here:
Congratulations to UCS Head of Physics, Dr Peter Edmunds, on the release of his first text book! The book, published by Collins, has already received rave reviews. Read more here:
@UCSPhysics
@UCSViceMaster
@FreedomtoTeach
Wonderful to see former UCS pupil Michael Kohn captaining Imperial College's team again on Monday in the
#UniversityChallenge
quarter finals. No spoilers here but it's well worth watching on iplayer! 👏👏👏
@OldGowers
#Imperial
The Sixth Graduation is underway and we look forward to catching up with you all shortly. We begin proceedings by remembering Helen McCrory and her powerful message to pupils in 2018, narrated by her husband Damian Lewis.
@SirHvHArts
What a start to the week! Thank you to members of the UCS community for dropping their donations off for the
@NPFoodbank
this morning. The food bank are now supporting 600 households rather than their usual 30. The collection will run on Mon, Wed & Fri.
@ISC_Community
@HMC_Org
Lovely seeing you all back on Frognal where teaching & learning can continue face to face. Also nice seeing our sixth-formers making the most of the new centre, we are sure that the temporary marquee will not be sorely missed. Wishing you all a safe and joyful remainder of term.
CHAMPIONS!! 🏆🏆 Huge congratulations to Dash and Ruben for winning the U13 Independent Schools Tennis Association doubles comp at Eton! 😃😃 National Independent Schools Doubles Champions! A quite outstanding achievement! Well done boys
@UCSHampstead
@GraysTeamsport
@ISTAtennis
The Senior School finished the academic year yesterday with an assembly led by the Headmaster. We celebrated sporting and co-curricular successes and ended with the school song. Happy summer holidays, everyone!
In keeping with the tradition of an end of term assembly,
@UCSHeadteacher
gave a heartfelt address in an unoccupied Great Hall, a scene generally unfamiliar in March. We stay positive & look ahead to having every seat filled in the summer term.
We are delighted to have been shortlisted for the Independent Schools of the Year Awards 2018. Congratulations to all the other schools who have been listed as well.
#ISOTY18
@UCSHeadteacher
Sending huge congratulations to all of our Sixth Formers who secured offers from Oxford yesterday. We are so proud of all of their hard work and the support they received from their teachers throughout the process.
Last Friday two Shell (Y8) boys, Alfie and Sam, organised a collection of warm coats for
@WrapUpLondon
here at the Senior School. They were blown away by the generosity of our school community. Read more here:
The wonderful GCSE results of our Upper Remove shone through the grey skies in Hampstead this morning. A richly deserved set of results for a brilliant group of young people 👏
ICYMI Congratulations to former UCS pupil Prof Sir Roger Penrose who was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on black holes. Congratulations also to everyone who has collaborated with him on this work. Read more here:
@OldGowers
Congratulations to our pupils on their fantastic GCSE results. 73 UCS boys were awarded straight A/A* grades (or 7, 8, 9 grades) & over 20% achieved a clean sweep of A* (or 8/9) grades. Read more about these:
@HMC_Org
@UCSHeadteacher
#gcseresultsday2018
Class of 2021 should take a bow! 22 offers (inc 3 scholarships) to study at universities in the USA or Canada from September. Very impressive indeed. Congratulations to the pupils and the teachers who supported them. Read more here: 🇺🇸🇨🇦
Great work from Jaren in Year 7. His
#viola
playing has dazzled audiences and judges at several chamber music festivals this year and he has now won a scholarship to the Junior Royal Academy of Music. Fabulous!
@UCSMusic
- read more here:
Last week our brilliant debaters went to compete at
@SHHSforGirls
. They won 9 out of 12 debates and our Junior Debating Team of Jonah and Markus won the Juniors Debating Competition. Debating continues to thrive at UCS. Well done, everyone!
Many congratulations to the pupils who secured Cambridge offers yesterday. It marks the culmination of lots of hard work and an exciting start to their undergraduate journeys!
A key part of the Entry Skern Lodge trip (which doesn’t feature in any brochure) is courtyard cricket. Here’s Mr Bienias trying to get a quick single and running his partner out!
We are really proud of our Head Chef, Varun Thapa, who won the bronze medal for his Restaurant Plates entry in the International Salon Culinaire yesterday. Well done, Varun! 👨🍳
@ChartwellsInd
Pupils across the
@UCSHampstead
Foundation are making excellent use of UCS Virtual. Teachers are using a variety of online platforms to deliver lessons. So many creative ideas are being implemented by both staff & pupils despite the difficult circumstances. Well done everyone.
Head over to YouTube () for some end of term entertainment in the UCS spirit by singing along to a virtual Paulatim mash & watch an enthralling Summer Concert! Also hear
@UCSHeadteacher
&
@OldGowers
share messages for our leaving Sixth.
#Paulatim
Congratulations on completing the first week back of in-person schooling! We give a special thanks to our staff volunteers for their roles in training, organising and manning a successful Covid Lateral Flow Testing operation as we now bid farewell to the UCSA test centre.
On the 3rd of each month until our
#official
opening on November 3rd 2018, we'll be sharing a few photos of the work taking place on the
@UCSSport
playing fields and our brand
#new
pavilion which appear to be coming along nicely and we're all super excited!
UCS Hampstead is closed except to pupils from families of key workers but UCS Virtual is now in full swing. Full timetable of lessons now being taught remotely through a variety of online platforms. Fantastic to see so many creative ideas & so much collaboration online.
Today marks the 66th anniversary of
@OldGowers
Sir Roger Bannister’s crossing of the tape in the first sub-4-minute mile, breaking realms of the possible in track athletics. 6th May 1954.
@UCSActive
Very saddened to learn about the passing away of legendary athlete, neurologist & former UCS pupil Sir Roger Bannister. Our thoughts are with his family at this time.
@OldGowers
Thank you again to everyone in the
@UCSHampstead
&
#Hampstead
communities who donated items to our food bank collection. It’s week 3 of the collection & another 90-odd boxes were delivered today to
@NPFoodbank
plus about 900 nappies. Thank you everyone!
@HMC_Org
@ISC_schools
Wow, what a splendid evening of music. Thank you for all of your hard work
@UCSMusic
on this evening’s Spring Concert. What a joy to continue to gather (in person!) and listen to the musical talents of UCS pupils.
As part of
#geography
enrichment, Year 9 have been
#designing
their vision of what
@camdenclimate
will look like in 2030. This is in support
@ThinkDoCamden
and the best will be submitted in the
#Camden
New Journal. Thomas's effort was one of the outstanding pieces submitted!
👏👏 👏 to our Sixth Formers on their successes in Science Olympiads last term. 3 qualified for the international competitions! Whether these will happen is yet to be decided but congratulations none the less on these exceptional performances. Read more:
We're so proud of Joseph (Y9) for his musical achievements- last week he got the news that he's been awarded a Grade 8 in his *third* instrument! Huge congratulations. Read more here:
Thank you to all of the pupils and staff who donated on Friday in our collection for North Paddington Foodbank. Special thanks to the pupils who volunteered to help- You are awesome!
Huge congratulations to 6th form boys and girls
@UCSHampstead
on achieving such terrific grades. An impressive 31% of grades were A* & 64 pupils achieved straight A grades or better. Well done!
#alevelresults2018
#hampstead
@HMC_Org
Congratulations to our 1st XV who retained the Middlesex Cup after an emphatic 37-0 win in the final. Tries from: Yousefian (3), Fournier, Richardson, Blaisdell & Osinuga.
@FifteenRugbyXV
@UCSSport
Congratulations to former UCS pupil Daniel Kohn who has been awarded a music scholarship at
@unibirmingham
. Daniel was a music scholar at UCS and took advantage of the Endangered Instrument Scheme run by
@UCSMusic
to learn the oboe. Read more here:
Here's that moment of magic from Blaisdell in Saturday's 1-1 draw with
@wschool
! Great ball in, cleverly getting away from two opposition players and then finishing with a fabulous curler into the back of the net! 🔥🔥⚽️
@UCSSport
We are delighted that UCS Sixth Former Sasha has been selected to have his work displayed in his first solo exhibition at the Parliament Hill Fields Lido Café. The private view is on Sunday 7th November, 2-4pm.
#hampstead
#art
#parliamenthill
#lido
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