Today’s Uppingham Experience
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Uppingham endeavours to curate a holistically enriching experience for pupils, equipping them with the skills and knowledge to become courageous, ambitious, courteous adults, who genuinely want to make the world a better place. While the academic curriculum is undeniably important to the experience pupils receive, the School offers more than just world-class teaching within its exceptional facilities. In this year’s School update, we focus on some of the co-curricular areas that help create the wonderfully, well-rounded version of education offered today. The “Upp and Out” Co-curricular programme Sarah Delaney, Assistant Head CoCurricular, is leading an evolution in the non-academic side of Uppingham life. At its core, the Upp and Out programme helps pupils to understand who they are as people; what drives them, what values they want to live by; the importance of their health and wellbeing and how they can create a positive impact in the world around them through their actions. Upp and Out supports pupils to develop skills that help them tackle real world problems by considering issues they encounter, defining innovative solutions and analysing outcomes from different points of view. It also tests them to challenge their own preconceptions and assumptions that might distract them from the best possible solutions.
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On a practical level, activities are delivered under four banners: • Physical • Spiritual • Creative • MAD (making a difference) – an overarching concept that embodies the other areas of the programme through practical activities. Pupils tackle areas of need, in School and local communities. From volunteering in local care homes and primary schools, working with local countryside conservation groups, walking local residents’ dogs, to supporting Uppingham in Bloom, there are many opportunities for pupils to make a difference. Eventually, Sarah hopes that Upper Sixth pupils will act as leaders of the programme, directly utilising the skills they have developed to guide their younger peers. Sport at Uppingham – transforming lives and changing the world through coaching Recently appointed as Director of Sport, Nick De Luca’s vision is to make a difference to the life of every pupil, by engaging positively with each of them and creating sporting experiences that create a lifetime of achievement, enjoyment and wellbeing. He aims to instil a relationship with sport that helps them manage their health and wellbeing and become the best version of themselves.
