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Alumni return to school for Careers Fair
UTC alumni were among the employers on site in UTC Reading’s main hall on Thursday for a careers fair, incorporating a variety of employers, FE providers and universities. One pair – Josh Butler and Cerys Rayner – now work for IT specialists Softcat and came back to...
UTC Reading students celebrate GCSE and technical qualification success
Year 11 students at UTC Reading are celebrating this morning after receiving their GCSEs and Level 2 technical qualifications. Students at UTC Reading study English, Maths and Science as core subjects and then specialise in either Engineering or Computer Science...
A Level and Level 3 students celebrate great results
Year 13 students are celebrating after picking up their A Level and Level 3 qualification results, securing them places on prestigious degree apprenticeships and university places. The school celebrated an overall positive set of results which is broken down...
Can we build it? Yes we can!
‘Can we build it? Yes we can!' said our Year 10s on Monday, 22 July, when tasked to scope, design and build their own bridges to a tight brief. Working with seven volunteers from Yondr Group, one of our Digital Futures Programme Partners, the students had to consider...
Student wins Arkwright Engineering scholarship
UTC Reading student, Hisham Hafeez, has been awarded a sought-after Arkwright Engineering scholarship. 15-year-old Hisham, who recently completed his GCSEs, competed against thousands of students to be in with a chance of winning the scholarship in a rigorous...
Young voices, big ideas
Students join Reading Youth Council to make young voices heard. With politics in the air more so than ever with a general election imminent, two students have decided to take their first steps into getting their voices heard and speaking up for their peers as members...
Driven student lands engineering apprenticeship
A driven Year 13 student is celebrating after landing a four-year degree apprenticeship at a national defence company. Alice Greibig will start a four-year Level 6 Manufacturing Engineering degree apprenticeship this August, studying two days a week at Newbury...
Mission Space Lab students achieve Flight Status
UTC Reading’s A Level Computer Science students working on a program to run scientific experiments from space have achieved Flight Status in a Europe-wide competition – meaning their program will run on Astro Pis installed on the International Space Station (ISS) in...
Discovering the ‘why’ in our careers programme
A student who is making the most of all the opportunities UTC Reading can offer is marking another achievement, having become a certified Careers Ambassador for the school. Faris Kadeb, who is studying Maths, Physics and Engineering, is an active member of the school...
GCSE study skills masterclass for parents
To help in the run-up to GCSE exam season for our Year 11 students, we asked Maximise Your Potential, a company specialising in study skills, to run a webinar to help parents support their children in the run up to and through the exams.
We know that not everyone could attend so wanted to share the headlines, key resources and main tips from Jeremy’s session. We have run sessions with Jeremy many times in some of our schools and feedback from the students has always been very positive, so we hope you find this useful.
You can find the guide here
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