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• 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…
• Wednesday 23 November 2022 Aiming high at UCL On Wednesday 9th November, 16 students from year 12 and year 13 attended a trip to University College London. These students are all studying for the prestigious Extended Project Qualification. This is an extra qualification available in the sixth form and worth half an A Level, which allows students to develop the crucial skills of academic research, independent work and extended writing that are so valued by top universities.
• Wednesday 9 November 2022 Sustainability at LSU Year 8 pupils visited Google at Kings’ Cross to attend a series of workshops organised by the Camden Clean Air initiative. The day consisted of 3 topics; air quality, plastics, and how to handle eco-anxiety. Within each topic, students heard from an expert in the field, followed by an interactive workshop. Pupils worked extremely hard and are planning a presentation to share what they have learnt with other pupils.
• Wednesday 2 November 2022 Year 7 Meet and Greet On 18 October year 7 played to a packed house. At the concert, the audience bopped away to a diverse range of music including classical, jazz and rock. The celebration of new students was supported by Mr Papadronicou’s BTEC business studies students, who produced some very impressive cakes for the Macmillan Cancer charity – so the entire audience was eating cake, drinking tea and dancing! Many of the year 7 team introduced themselves to the parents – Ms Juckes, the Latin teacher and the pastoral leads. It was a joyous occasion.
• Tuesday 1 November 2022 Celebrating 160 years Our school closed its 160th-anniversary celebrations last term with a special mass with Bishop Nicholas Hudson in our Chapel on Tuesday 11th October and special assemblies on Thursday 13th October – our founder Jean Baptiste Debrabant’s birthday. There was also a special French lunch served on that day, to commemorate the origins of La Sainte Union!
• Wednesday 19 October 2022 LSU at NASA Day 1 visiting the Kennedy Space Centre had pupils in front-row seats to see the launch of the latest SpaceX mission to Mars – a once-in-a-lifetime experience! Pupils got to practise docking skills, navigated the unique Mars terrain and experienced the sensation of performing a spacewalk in a microgravity environment. Using the exciting and immersive simulation technology available, teams worked together to solve real-world problems using authentic NASA Science. There was plenty of time for biology too, as pupils enjoyed an airboat ride on the Everglades; discovering territory that remains unaltered in the Wilderness of the Central Florida Everglades.
• Wednesday 12 October 2022 Gallery trip for Black History Month On the 16th of September, our year 12 and year 13 A Level classes went to the Southbank to visit “In the Black Fantastic” at the Hayward Gallery. It was incredibly inspiring as it made us think about concepts like race and gender on a much deeper level than we are used to. Each artist we saw gave us a new thing to think about and that’s what made it so interesting. Ellen Gallagher explores new myths and stories throughout history, with giant watercolour paintings, whilst Lina Iris Viktor creates beautiful images using powerful colours like Majorelle blue, black, white, red and gold – even using real gold. As well as all of the different and amazing artists, the whole exhibition tied in together as it all followed the over-arching theme of exploring race and what it means to be black.
• Wednesday 28 September 2022 LSU Jazz Band wows again The LaSWAP Jazz Band at LSU played at the annual York Rise Street Festival. They performed to an audience of local residents, who said how impressed they were by the high quality of the playing of the students. They played for half an hour, led by drum teacher Phil Harper. The band rehearses every Friday from 1.15 until 3.00pm at LSU and welcomes newcomers from across the sixth form consortium.
• Wednesday 7 September 2022 LSU in Open House London We're very excited to announce that we will be taking part in Open House London for the very first time! Come and see inside the original Georgian building 10am-2pm on Saturday the 10th. Tours will include the beautiful chapel, the historic organ and stained glass works by renowned artists Patrick Pollen and Keith New. LSU's own Martin Hogben will also be on hand to demonstrate the organ by playing the 141-year-old instrument from 1pm!
• Thursday 25 August 2022 Reaching High - GCSE Results Day Congratulations to our students on an excellent set of GCSE results! Grades were above the national average and the number of 7-9s were up. There were excellent results in Maths which matched the usual excellent outcomes in English, as well as some fabulous success stories for individual students. This included Niamh Tarrant who achieved a full set of grade 9s and is excited about starting her courses at LSU in LaSWAP. Many students enrolled at the Sixth Form Consortium and were excited about staying on. The Hallion Hall was buzzing from 9am to 1.30pm with students receiving results and enrolling for LaSWAP.
• Thursday 18 August 2022 Y13 Results - another successful year for LSU Congratulations on an excellent set of Sixth Form results and very impressive destinations for our young people and about half of all grades sitting within the A*-B bracket.
• Wednesday 13 July 2022 A step into the Information Age Some of our year 9s spent the day at The Winton Mathematics Gallery and The Information Age Gallery at the Science Museum. They diligently worked through our quiz sheets to help them make connections between the Maths they had learnt in the classroom (geometry, statistics, trigonometry, ratio and proportion to name a few) and the museum exhibits. Well done to quiz winners Marvel, Isabella and Sofia.
• Wednesday 6 July 2022 Summer Art Show 2022 We were so pleased to be able to welcome back students, families, friends and staff to our Summer Show again!
• Monday 4 July 2022 Another triumph for LSU Debating! On Monday 27th June, students from La Sainte Union took part in the Summer Debating Championship at South Hampstead High School, against 24 other teams from schools across London.
• Wednesday 29 June 2022 LSU Sustainers On Tuesday 24thJune, the school wasinvited to attend Camden Council’s Sustainers Fest which was organised by a local action group called Think & Do. This event supported the school’s commitment to the Camden Climate Charter. This is was an educational and interactive afternoon event with 5 key aims:
• Wednesday 22 June 2022 Science trip to Berlin Year 9 scientists embarked on a 3-day educational visit to Berlin, Germany which presented an exciting opportunity to tour the great city; visiting the Computer Spiele Museum, Deutsches Technikmuseum (German Museum of Technology), Game Science Center and the Berlin TV Tower. The students were an absolute credit to the school and received such high praise from our hotel manager, tour guides and members of the public. A big thank you to Ms Hussein, Ms Rettich and Ms Matthews for overseeing this trip.
• Wednesday 22 June 2022 Highgate Jazz Festival On Sunday 19th June, the Jazz Concert for the Highgate Festival took place at Lauderdale House. Schools and Camden Borough Jazz Bands took part in this celebration of our young musicians. Representing LSU and LaSWAP were the year 12 and year 13 A Level Music students, who have been rehearsing and performing as a band since the start of the academic year with our drum kit teacher, Phillip Harper. They have performed at St Luke’s as part of the Camden Spring Festival and now as part of the Highgate Festival. Their set included “Little Sunflower” by Freddie Hubbard and “Endangered Species” by Wayne Shorter. There was also a premiere of an own composition by one the year 12 students; Ollie Thoburn. They performed with flair and a great sense of teamwork, even without their frontline singer, Melat Abiy, who was unable to perform due to being unwell. We are extremely proud of our wonderful musicians, it was a fitting end for the year 13 students, who we now say
• Wednesday 15 June 2022 Geography field trip On 6th-8thJune, the Geography department took the year 10 GCSE Geography students on their residential field trip to Swanage, Dorset. This was organised by Ms De’Ath and we would like to thank her for all her hard work organising the trip and all the resources, even though she was unable to attend. We want to say a very sincere thank you to the fantastic staff that attended the trip (Mr Wigman, Ms Crabtree, Ms O’Donnell and Mr Buckler) who made it run so smoothly and so memorable.
• Wednesday 25 May 2022 CERN trip Last week, me and a group of students had the extremely fortunate opportunity of visiting Switzerland in which our education continued to thrive. Between going to museums of both science and history, we were also able to view and learn from some of Geneva's notable landmarks, such as the Jet d'Eau, the tallest fountain in the world. It's a hydraulic plant that was originally built in 1886 to control and release excess pressure. Who knew something built simply to fix an engineering problem could be such a remarkable symbol We were also granted the luxury of a trip to CERN, Europe's council for nuclear research, where we explored the wonders of particle physics. We were able to see models of the site's particle accelerators and how they worked, particle beams of opposite directions travelling at the speed of light guided by magnetic fields at an attempt to create new particles. Certainly an intriguing experience in which plenty knowledge for physics and the future was gained. On our fina
• Wednesday 11 May 2022 Superbloom Tocelebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, weare creating a wildflower bank around our school hall using the same seeds as those being planted at the Tower of London’s moat for the big Superbloom event!
• Wednesday 27 April 2022 Earth Day LSU students proved fantastic caretakers of our planet ahead of Earth Day on Friday 22nd April. Mathilde, Ana, Isabel and Casey in year 10 and Helen, Sophia, Saima and Leroy in year 12 from the Geography Society signed up to multiple projects as part of an eco event held at the school on Thursday 21stApril. The year 10s plan on supporting a Camden Clean Air Initiative Cycle Ride on 12thJune while the sixth formers have started their work experience with the Camden Clean Air Initiative. The leaders of the Society are also keen to host a similar event at the rest of the LaSWAP Sixth Form Consortium. Look out for more news on this soon as well as future volunteering at the Heath and ‘Cooking and Eating together’ sessions which will support student wellbeing and the planet.
• Wednesday 20 April 2022 LSU classicists bring Roman history to life Roman history enthusiasts at La Sainte Union School used their baking prowess to raise £150 on 31st March towards a local project to restore two 1st Century AD kilns to Highgate Woods.
• Wednesday 2 March 2022 Complete Mathematics TUTOR Dear parents/carers
• Wednesday 9 February 2022 Becoming an EPI teacher Author of 'The Language Teacher toolkit', 2015 TES Award winner and founder of The Language Gym will be delivering training at La Sainte Union School. To book, see the sessions below!
• Wednesday 26 January 2022 International School Award Our assessor Gavin Mather congratulated the school on its outstanding International work in what has been a difficult few years!
• Wednesday 19 January 2022 Careers Education Award
• Friday 12 November 2021 Anti- Bullying Week
• Wednesday 6 October 2021 Drama students receive Trinity College London Awards
• Tuesday 5 October 2021 Faculty of Creative Arts Events 2021-2022 Events 2021-2022
• Friday 23 October 2020 Year 8 Art & Technology Forensics Day
• Thursday 8 October 2020 Year 8 Identity Exhibition Year 8 Identity Exhibition October 2020
• Monday 29 June 2020 Virtual Post-18 Progression Evening Post 18 Progression Evening:
• Friday 26 June 2020 A Level Drama News
• Monday 15 June 2020 LSU Virtual Art Exhibition June 2020 This year we cannot invite everyone to see our GCSE Artwork in real life, so the Art department have created a virtual show. We are so proud of all our Year 11 students and want to share their fabulous creativity, hard work and imagination with you all!
• Monday 16 December 2019 LSU Michaelmas Review 2019
• Tuesday 23 July 2019 LSU Trinity Review 2019
• Tuesday 9 July 2019 LSU's International Evening a Great Success
• Monday 20 May 2019 LSU joins high-performing schools network
• Friday 3 May 2019 Opening of the Imelda Staunton Drama Studio
• Tuesday 30 April 2019 MEDSOC Magazine Issue 1 out now
• Tuesday 23 April 2019 LSU recognised for outstanding Progress 8 Score LSU regonised for outstanding Progress 8 Score
• Friday 8 March 2019 LSU staff member awarded Careers Advisor of the Year LSU staff awarded Careers Advisor of the Year
• Tuesday 5 March 2019 LSU features in Camden Learning
• Friday 15 February 2019 Dance Competition Win
• Thursday 20 December 2018 LSU Pupil wins Competition LSU Pupil wins Camden Christmas Card Competition
• Wednesday 19 December 2018 LSU Michaelmas Review just released
• Wednesday 29 June 2016 Diocesan Inspection April 2016 LSU Judged An Outstanding Catholic School Again
• Friday 27 May 2016 Ani❤Camden Project 6th Form students and Mrs Williams presented with a life-saving defibrillator as part of the Ani❤Camden Project.
• Thursday 28 April 2016 Camden Youth MP Election Results Congratulations to Eden 12NHI who was elected as Camden?s Deputy Youth MP on 13th April 2016 after receiving 786 votes in a ballot in schools and colleges across Camden.
• Thursday 28 April 2016 The Horse Chestnut Project La Sainte Union's Horse Chestnut project has been published in Catalyst, a science magazine for students aged 14-19 years. Please click here to read the article.
• Friday 22 January 2016 Announcement We are very pleased to announce that La Sainte Union has placed very well in the league tables which were published on 21st January 2016.

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