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Thursday 22 August 2024 La Sainte Union's bright women buck the national trend with best ever results, paving the way for bold futures This year’s GCSE results builds on last year’s success which have once again placed La Sainte Union among the top schools in Camden. Below are some of the highlights:
Friday 16 August 2024 Exceptional A Level results open doors to bright and bold futures We are delighted to announce yet another year of exceptional A Level results at La Sainte Union, further solidifying our reputation for academic excellence and our commitment to nurturing well-rounded, successful students.
Wednesday 17 July 2024 Chicago Musical On the evenings of the 2nd and 3rd July, performing arts students from LaSWAP and pupils from La Sainte Union lower school impressed audiences with their rendition of the classic musical.
Wednesday 19 June 2024 Un des meilleurs voyages In May, year 8s and year 9s took in the sights of Paris, taking a boat ride across the River Seine, visiting the infamous Louvre Museum, Montmartre and Palace of Versailles before the eagerly anticipated trip to Disneyland!
Wednesday 22 May 2024 Biorobotics Club at UCL On Monday 22nd April, 5 of our year 10 students represented our school at UCL as part of their World Earth Day event. Our students confidently presented their progress with our jellyfish-inspired robot that we are designing to help remove plastic waste from waterways and oceans to KS2 primary school children. Our students also ran 2 workshops helping the younger students code and build simple ‘inchworm’ robots from cardboard using micro:bits and wires.
Wednesday 24 April 2024 Class of 2024 Welcome Evening On Tuesday 12th of March, we held our first ever Welcome Evening for the girls due to join our year 7 in September 2024.
Wednesday 6 March 2024 National Attendance Award The awards are an acknowledgement of the hard work and dedication of staff, students, parents and carers in achieving excellent attendance during the autumn term.
Wednesday 21 February 2024 Public speaking triumph On 7th February, LSU's public Speaking team claimed a glorious victory in the London regional semi-final of the English School Union's prestigious Churchill Public Speaking Competition! Facing stiff competition from schools including Henrietta Barnett School, Friern Barnet School, and Notting Hill and Ealing High School, our two year 10 students exhibited remarkable rhetorical skill, confidence and nuanced insight, securing a well-deserved victory in the competition which took place online for the first time.
Wednesday 17 January 2024 Navigating the Future: AI in Education We are offering 2 free places per school to our half-day conference. Come and explore ways to navigate all that AI has to offer, and reflect with current practitioners and leading experts on the opportunities and ethical dilemmas that come with AI.
Wednesday 13 December 2023 Charity Christmas Lunch On Thursday 7th December, our school hosted a very special Christmas lunch for 80 elderly local residents. Thanks to our new partnership with Highgate Newtown Community Partners, the meal was completely free of charge to our guests and was freshly cooked by our in-house team Harrison Catering Services and lovingly served by students and staff.
Wednesday 29 November 2023 Sustainability trailblazers On Wednesday 29th November, our school hosted a very special event. A group of enterprising year 9 students who had designed a climate action board game in year 8 were presented with their own copies of ‘Where does it come from, where does it go to?’ at a celebration ceremony in the board room.
Monday 30 October 2023 CERN Trip Last month a group of year 13 physics students had the privilege of visiting CERN in Geneva Switzerland, the world’s largest particle physics lab and home of the large hadron collider. The students saw some of the behind-the-scenes work of the facility, were given demonstrations and enjoyed the talk on how the collider probes the fundamental structure of the particles that make up everything around us. During the 3-day trip, students also had the chance to see Geneva and take in sights such as the Jet d'Eau, the tallest fountain in the world, originally built in 1886 to control and release excess pressure, and visited the original UN headquarters, founded in 1945 to maintain international peace and security and to achieve international cooperation.
Thursday 21 September 2023 AI Workshop at the Economist Year 7 and 8 students attended a workshop on the topic of AI delivered by the Economist Educational Foundation at the end of last term. The sessions involved presentations by experts in the field, interactive activities, critical thinking exercises and an engaging debate on various aspects of AI and its impact on society. Watch the video below!
Wednesday 6 September 2023 Results success
Tuesday 15 August 2023 Summer School 2023
Wednesday 12 July 2023 Art and DT Open Studio On Thursday 30 June, we celebrated the achievements and creative efforts of our GCSE and A Level Art students. They have worked very hard and created amazing sculptures, paintings, prints, drawings, architectural models and installation pieces. We wish them all the very best in the future and hope they come back to share their journeys with us and inspire future generations of LSU artists! Check out the pictures below.
Tuesday 11 July 2023 Windrush 75-year Anniversary Celebration On Monday 12th of June, year 10 and year 12 students attended the British Library's prestigious Lecture Hall as part of the Windrush 75-year anniversary celebrations where renowned historian and broadcaster David Olusoga took the stage to deliver an enlightening talk on Lord David Pitt, Britain's first Black Labour Lord.
Wednesday 28 June 2023 Greek Theatre in the open air On Wednesday 21st and Thursday 22nd, over 40 students performed in our beautiful grounds, while their parents and carers enjoyed a picnic.
Wednesday 7 June 2023 Successful Inspection We are delighted to be able to share with you the report from our recent Diocesan Inspection. The report recognised that "the school motto of ‘Each for all, and all for God’ is valued and lived out by students and staff." The inspectors also said: "Students understand the history of the LSU congregation and appreciate the opportunities that exist for global connection with other LSU schools" and recognised that La Sainte Union "serves a diverse community" and applauded our "culture of welcome for all."
Wednesday 24 May 2023 Year 12 Retreat Day Fr Lawrence OP welcomed our Year 12s to this historic Catholic church and Diocesan Shrine served by the Dominican Friars. Our students had a tour of the Shrine, the first in the world with distinct altars and chapels for every mystery of the Rosary. They learned about the origin of the rosary and prayed a decade in honour of the Feast of the Ascension.
Wednesday 19 April 2023 LSU hosts Brazilian Delegation On 28th March, LSU hosted a delegation of 26 headteachers from various regions in Brazil with the Education and Training Officer for the UK Government Department for Business and Trade in Brazil.
Wednesday 22 March 2023 Camden Youth Awards 2023 Young people, youth workers and community volunteers from the borough had their achievements recognised at the Camden Youth Awards 2023 on Friday 17 March.
Wednesday 8 March 2023 World Book Day 2023 On Friday 3 March, LSU had its biggest celebration of World Book Day to date! Over 70 students and members of staff dressed up as their favourite book characters. See if you can guess who’s who in the gallery below!
Wednesday 1 March 2023 Sustainability Fair On Wednesday 1 March, we were delighted to host a Sustainability Fair in partnership with the Camden Clean Air Commission. Students in years 7 and 8 gained an insight into clean mobility, sustainable energy, air quality, recycling, climate empowerment and rewilding, as well as the green careers they could have in the future.
Wednesday 22 February 2023 Girls in STEM La Sainte Union pupils joined other female students from Camden secondary schools for a construction and design event at King's Cross Construction Skills Centre to mark National Apprenticeship Week at the start of the month. The girls got to grips with virtual reality building modelling and creating a dream workspace. They designed ideas for the Euston area and thoroughly enjoyed the day
Friday 27 January 2023 New Sixth Form Catering Pod
Wednesday 4 January 2023 Camden Eco Champion The Camden Eco Champions awards were created to recognise the people in Camden who go above and beyond to protect the environment. Our School Chaplain Shirley Taylor secured second place in December.
Friday 16 December 2022 Debating Champions On Thursday 1st December, two intrepid speakers from LSU competed in the Speak Out Challenge, created by The Jack Petchey Foundation, at Parliament School. This was a Camden-wide regional final including six secondary schools across the borough. Only one student would be chosen to go to the national semi-finals in May 2023.
Wednesday 7 December 2022 Future Architects We were honoured to be able to take 10 year 10 and year 12 students to Arup Architecture on Tuesday 22nd November. Students were introduced to the role of an architect and life in an architecture firm, as well as university and apprenticeship pathways into the profession. Students were also given an office tour of Arup’s showcase building on Fitzroy Street and encouraged to try out some skills themselves. It was revelatory to understand the role of a building in human health and well-being, social and cultural capital and even national identity. We even learned how the Sydney Opera House was built by Arup in the earliest days of computer-assisted design! While students worked and learned, teachers and advisers were meeting with Arup to help them design a new work experience and mentoring pipeline with local schools – truly inspirational, and a great credit to the company’s commitment to helping young people. Our students were impeccably behaved and fully engaged, and
Wednesday 30 November 2022 Voyage into ancient Greece Well, since you ask…

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