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UTC Sheffield City Centre Maths Department moves to online learning
Posted: 14 May 2020 in City Centre, News
UTC Sheffield City Centre has been finding innovative ways to teach effectively online, to keep their students proactive and motivated during these challenging, unprecedented times. The Maths department has been running several trial online lessons using Microsoft Teams, for the past few weeks. They thought the students might be missing the human contact from their […]
UTC Sheffield City Centre Head of Engineering works alongside Rolls-Royce to produce PPE
Posted: 13 May 2020 in City Centre, News
UTC Sheffield City Centre Head of Engineering, Adrian Dulley, has been working with a staff member at Rolls-Royce, Ian Crowston, to produce PPE for a national project. Adrian Dulley at UTC Sheffield City Centre said: “My role in the project has been to create two different styles of headband for facemasks. The first one is […]
UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park donates vital equipment to NHS staff
Posted: 15 April 2020 in News, Olympic Legacy Park
UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park staff and students have donated urgently needed personal protective equipment to the NHS. The technical school has given 100 disposable aprons, 60 pairs of safety glasses, 20 pairs of goggles, seven boxes of gloves and one visor to Riverside Health Partnership, which has surgeries based in North Nottinghamshire and South […]
UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park has received a SSAT Educational Outcomes Award
Posted: 9 April 2020 in News, Olympic Legacy Park
UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park is amongst top performing schools in England UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park has received national recognition for being one of the highest performing schools in England for technical learning. The UTC has won a Schools, Students and Teachers (SSAT) network award for ranking in the top 10% of non-selective schools […]
Meet Ifatgar Ahmed, Curriculum Director for Computing
Posted: 6 April 2020 in News, Olympic Legacy Park, Teacher Profiles
We sat down with Ifatgar Ahmed, to talk about his new role as Curriculum Director for Computing at UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park. Why did you decide to start teaching at the UTC? I’d visited UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park several times before and had a very positive first impression. I knew that the UTC […]
Meet Douglas Parr, Teacher for Computing
Posted: 3 April 2020 in News, Olympic Legacy Park, Teacher Profiles
Why did you decide to teach at a UTC? Someone I know recommended UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park to me, and I saw that it had a STEM focus, which I found appealing and incredibly exciting. The UTC has a major specialism in computing, which stood out to me, and it has a good reputation, […]
UTC Sheffield City Centre Wins National Award Recognising Top Performing Schools in England
Posted: 26 March 2020 in City Centre, News
UTC Sheffield City Centre has received national recognition for being one of the highest performing schools in England for technical learning. The UTC has won a Schools, Students and Teachers (SSAT) network award for ranking in the top 20% of non-selective schools for student attainment at post 16 in applied general subjects. The SSAT Educational […]
Groundbreaking UTC Sheffield City Centre celebrates Ofsted ‘good’ grading
Posted: 16 March 2020 in City Centre, News
UTC Sheffield City Centre has been graded ‘good’ by Ofsted in its latest inspection, according to a report published today – March 16th 2020. As one of the top performing institutions of its kind nationally, the flagship UTC recruits young people, aged 13 to 19, from across Sheffield City Region. Ofsted has praised leaders and […]
Meet our Alumna, Kayla Baugh, Design Placement student at the AWRC at Sheffield Hallam University
Posted: 12 March 2020 in News, Olympic Legacy Park
Kayla joined UTC Sheffield to study Engineering at City Centre and then went on to study Sport at Olympic Legacy Park. She is currently on a University Design placement at the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC) at Sheffield Hallam University. Why did you join UTC Sheffield? At my previous school, they removed the engineering course […]
Engineering student, Solomon Maragh, selected to represent Jamaica in Canoe Slalom Championships
Posted: 10 March 2020 in City Centre, News
UTC Sheffield City Centre Engineering student, Solomon Maragh, has been selected to represent Jamaica in the ICF Pan-American Canoe Slalom Championships, as their first Canoe Slalom athlete, in Rio de Janeiro in April 2020. The competition is one of the most spectacular water sports, which demands skill, stamina and courage. The aim is to run […]