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  • ‘The Orwell Youth Prize’ celebration event at Pembroke College, Oxford

    Published 11/07/19
    On Friday 5th July, Year 10 and 11 More Able students who entered ‘The Orwell Youth Prize’ attended the celebration event at Pembroke College, Oxford. Entrants had to craft a piece of political protest writing to comment on an injustice i
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  • Year 12 BTEC Applied Science Chemists make “impressively pure” Aspirin

    Published 10/07/19
    BTEC Applied Science Chemists have been working for several weeks to make pure Aspirin as one of their BTEC Assignments. The students then took their samples to Brunel University to test the purity using the Infrared Spectroscope. University research
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  • Heston Science Alumni Return

    Published 10/07/19
    Heston Science Alumni returned to share their experiences of University with year 12 students. Janeesh Bansal (BSc Natural Sciences), Nina Fordred (BSc Physics), Gurman Woodwal (BSc Physics), Fatima Ali (BMBS Medicine) have just finished thei
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  • Not all Chemists Wear Lab Coats!

    Published 10/07/19
    Year 12 Chemistry A-Level students and BTEC Applied Scientists met with Science graduate, Stuart Venning, who now works in Pharmaceutical Marketing. He explained how his career has developed, the procedures involved in drugs trials to ensure safe pro
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  • How to be Successful!

    Published 10/07/19
    Paul Sloane achieved a first in Engineering at Cambridge University. He has had a successful career at many high tech companies, including IBM and has written over 20 books including “How to be a brilliant thinker” and “Think like a
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  • STEM Careers Fair 2019

    Published 10/07/19
    Year 9 students that have picked the GCSE option of Separate Science were given the opportunity to meet Heston Alumni and local professionals with a range of STEM careers and University degrees. Delegates included engineers, pharmacists, Drug safety
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  • STEM Challenge Day 2019

    Published 10/07/19
    Some of our strongest year 9 Scientists were selected to compete at a STEM Challenge day at Brunel University. Tasks included programming robots, photofit technology and medical diagnosis activities. Whilst we did not win any prizes, our students wer
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  • JACK PETCHEY ACHIEVEMENT PLAQUE

    Published 18/06/19
    The School is exceptionally proud to have been awarded the prestigious Jack Petchey Plaque, for the running of the Award Scheme. This is an exceptional honour which is awarded sparingly – to only three schools in the country received this award
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  • JACK PETCHEY AWARDS 2019

    Published 17/06/19
    The annual award ceremony for the Hounslow Jack Petchey Award Winners took place on the evening of Thursday, 13 June. As always, it was a glittering and joyous event, compèred this year by Ria Hebden.  Students proudly received their meda
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  • Bike Week 2019

    Published 06/06/19
    It’s National Bike Week next week 8th – 16th June and Hounslow is taking part and we are running a list of programme events for everyone to join in.   Please see the attachment.  We want everyone to see the health and envir
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  • The Old Vic Theatre

    Published 21/05/19
    On Tuesday 14th May the Year 10 Drama class had their final workshop with facilitators from The Old Vic Theatre. The class explored the play All My Sons by Arthur Miller. They were then very lucky in being able to see the sold out productio
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  • Salter’s Chemistry Festival

    Published 20/05/19
    Four of our best Chemists in Year 8 were selected to take part in the Salter’s Festival for Chemistry on the 08 May at East London University. The students were Priyal Bharatkumar, Kiran Barrass, Anit Lond and Moaiad Adam. In their firs
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