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• 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…
• 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.

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