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St Paul's Way Trust Students are fantastic ambassadors at MUN St Paul’s Way Trust School students from year 10 and 12 took part in the Model United Nations (MUN) Conference at the International Maritime Organisation in December. MUN is an opportunity for students to develop a deeper understanding of current world issues, diplomacy and international relations. It teaches key skills such as public speaking, debating and critical thinking. The focus of the conference this year was Human Rights. Discussions centred around ways the international community could join forces to protect human rights and tackle discrimination. Delegates considered the potential of this combined effort to eliminate slavery and protect the rights of children, refugees, LGBT+ and indigenous peoples around the world. The Security Council and Crisis Committee delegates also addressed the rights of the Rohingya people. Delegates from St Paul’s Way were outstanding, with students winning awards in every category and commendations on their leadership and public speaking skills. There was particular praise for Imad and Zahra who led the sessions as Honourable Chairs and were highly professional.

Royal Greenwich Trust School's (RGTS) exciting building project is well under way, as outlined in construction specialists Willmott Dixon's newsletter below. The extension to the building will enable the school to accomodate its growing student population, and will offer the students a number of fantastic new facilities. These include a dance and drama studio, music rooms, a new sports hall and science laboratories.  This is a really exciting time for RGTS - we can't wait to see the students and teachers benefitting from the new space. 

University Schools Trust (UST) are proud to be working in partnership with Cleverbox to deliver digital excellence within the UST network.  In early 2019 the two UST schools will launch their new school websites, which will be designed, built, hosted and supported by Cleverbox. John Middleton, Director of Innovation at UST explains: “With Cleverbox having created our new UST website, the decision to work with them to create further school sites was an easy one to make. The process of getting our Trust website up and running was smooth and straightforward. It will be fantastic to have all our school websites connected together, and the team at UST really love how easy it is to upload and maintain content using Cleverbox’s content management system.” On behalf of Cleverbox, Daniel Clackett, Senior Account Director, said: “Cleverbox are so proud to be working in partnership with UST and are delighted with the positive feedback we have received following the launch of their Trust website. We believe that every Trust is unique, which is why we have delivered a fully bespoke website package to UST to roll out across their entire network of schools. Their websites look fantastic, deliver a fantastic user experience for parents and, critically, are so easy for the schools to maintain and manage – that’s the key to success!” Both of the UST schools’ Headteachers are excited with the outcome of this partnership. Phil Akerman, Executive Headteacher at St Paul’s Way Trust School, said: “We have a highly talented and creative team at our school, and the designs for the new website are really wonderful. I want us to be able to promote the great work of our teachers, the successes of our pupils and the excellence of our events. It is also incredibly important that we find new ways to keep connected with our parents and the local community. Our new website will help us do all this”. At Royal Greenwich Trust School, Headteacher, Dr Richard Marshall, was equally enthusiastic: “As a growing school, with a great deal happening all the time, we are always searching to find new ways to capture all the latest news and communicate it effectively to as many people as possible. Our existing website doesn’t quite meet all our needs - our new Cleverbox website will be state-of-the-art in comparison. We can’t wait. It will be a great advertisement to all those pupils and staff thinking of joining us in September”. ‘’UST is based on a unique set of partnerships, with 6 world-leading universities and 5 sector-leading organisations. It is wonderful to see how well this has been captured in our Trust website, and I am confident that the new school websites will better capture all that is so wonderful about our schools” says Grahame Price, the Chief Executive Officer of UST. Make sure you check out the new websites in January!

Press Release Best Ever Results at UST Schools The results for UST Schools this year were the best yet, and were a true reflection of all the hard work by students and staff and the support provided by families and our Trust Partners. In our Foundation School pupils exceeded all the national benchmarks, with writing and mathematics significantly above the national average: “I am thrilled by these results, and want to congratulate everyone. We are over-subscribed with our brand new school now open which will really help us support our wonderful students and their amazing families even more this year.” Clare Lynam, Headteacher, St Paul’s Way Foundation School At St Paul’s Way Trust, which has been graded by OfSTED as ‘Outstanding’ since 2013, the results were amongst the top 10% in the country with a stunning overall performance at A Level: 97% of students achieved A*-C at A Level 96% of students progressed to university 60% of students progressed to Russell Group universities Some of the many noteable individual results at A Level included Ijaz Choudhury who achieved 3 A* grades and secured The Barts & The London Medicine Scholarship (worth £75,000 over seven years) organised in collaboration with one of our Trust Partners (Queen Mary University of London), and Alexandra Pricop who achieved 3 A grades is going on to study Medicine at Kings College London.  The results at GCSE were equally impressive with Labib Khan achieving seven grade 9s, one A* and one A** in Further Maths, the top grade possible. Jenny Hunyh also achieved A** in Further Maths, along with six grade 9s, two grade 8s and two grade 7s.  Other top performers include Ibrahim Thasin with five grade 9s, and one A*, Alana Alberto-Assiss with five grade 9s and Tanzim Chowdhury with five grade 9s, four grade 8s and one grade A. “The exceptional achievement of our Y11 and sixth form students this year, the best in our school's history, demonstrates that remarkable things really do happen when you combine your students' potential, their hard work and their determination with great support from their families and a talented and committed teaching/tutor team.” Phil Akerman, Executive Headteacher, St Paul’s Way Trust And students and staff were also celebrating at Royal Greenwich Trust School as well.  This school, which only joined a couple of years ago, has already seen their Sixth Form results improve: 96% of students secured their next step 58% of students secured a place at university 38% of students joined apprenticeships programmes or started work The top performing student, Ruth Osagiator-Obude, achieved A*AA (in Geography, Psychology and Economics), becoming the most successful student in the short history of the school. She will go on to read Politics, Philosophy & Economics at University College, Oxford, another first for a student from our school. Phillip Wulfhorst achieved straight As in Physics, Maths and Further Maths, and will go on to study Biomedical Engineering at King’s College, London. Our Engineering cohort once again yielded the school’s strongest results leading to a wealth of places to study Engineering at the country’s top institutions, including Brunel, Nottingham and Birmingham. Among the top performing students were Mubarik Jehoney and Esosa Ighodaro, who both achieved Triple D* and were rewarded with places at Leeds University. “We are thrilled by the results this year, which says so much about the talented staff team and hard-working students at our school.  We have come a long way in such a very short time, and with the recent ground-breaking for our new buildings and already being oversubscribed, the whole school is ambitious to do even better this year”. Dr Richard Marshall, Headteacher, Royal Greenwich Trust School Commenting on these results the Chief Executive of UST, Grahame Price who is a National Leader of Education, said: ‘We are very proud of the achievements of all of our students and reflects the hard work of our staff and the commitment of our Trust Partners.  Our schools continue to be beacons of success for the communities they serve and I am delighted that through our School of Education we are helping other schools achieve similar success’.   End.   For more information please contact us at info@ust.london