Quarrendon School
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| Motto | Specialising In Diversity |
| Established | 1957 |
| Type | Secondary modern community school |
| Headteacher | Mr Jonathan Johnson |
| Location | Aylesbury Buckinghamshire England  |
| LEA | Buckinghamshire |
| Ofsted number | 110492 |
| Students | 800 |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Ages | 11 to 18 |
| School colours | Green and Yellow |
| Website | www.quarrendon.bucks.sch.uk |
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Quarrendon School, formerly Quarrendon County Secondary School and later Quarrendon Upper School, is a mixed, non-selective secondary school in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. It is a community school, which takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 18. The school has approximately 800 pupils.[1]
The school was officially opened by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1959.[2]
The school was placed on special measures, for the second time in five years, in September 2004. This was followed with regular inspections by Ofsted, which included interviews with pupils during lessons to determine their attitude towards the school and the teaching standards. The school came out of special measures in November 2006, after making satisfactory progress due to the improvements, which the school had implemented.[3] The school is now planning to apply to DCSF to become a specialist Science and Technology College.[4]
The school's catchment area comprises parts of north Aylesbury, including Quarrendon, Elmhurst and Watermead, as well as the villages of Hardwick, Weedon, Whitchurch, Oving and Pitchcott. It also includes both the Berryfields and Weedon Hill developments.[5]
There were plans to close the school in 2009, and to move to a new site, built as part of the Berryfields Major Development Area (MDA), with housing replacing the school on the current site. However, there was some doubt as to whether this would happen due to funding issues.[6] The latest development is the proposal that Quarrendon will become Buckinghamshire's first academy, jointly funded and controlled by the Local Education Authority and the Church of England. If the plan is accepted Quarrendon will become an academy in 2009 and will move to its new site in 2011.[7][8]
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[edit] Equipment
The school has a semi equipped library with educational books, a few computers as well as magazines and a printer/scanner for student use. Close to the library are areas toilet use.
[edit] Educational Areas
Quarrendon School has a vast range of equipment for its wide range of students, this includes a cinema in the hall which is used at lunchtimes for student use to play computer games, watch movies, or when an assembly is being presented. The buildings that house the children are:
- Science Block with Humanities on the First Floor
- English block
- Pe gym
- Sports hall
- A tower block for linguistics, Maths , Business Studies and I.T.
- Medical facilities for students experiencing difficulty. complete with monopoly boards and dice
- Student reception
- Visitors Reception
- Canteen
- Dance/performing arts Studio
[edit] Teaching Staff
The teaching staff at Quarrendon Upper School are all specialised in the area they teach e.g The religious education teacher is specialised in religious education.
[edit] School improvement
Quarrendon School is allegedly being improved, the school may change their traditional green jumpers to black blazers with a new logo of a jigsaw representative of the mixed races that are attending the school, and the fact the school fits together as a jigsaw does.
A sixth form will be opened in September 2008.
[edit] Pupil Involvement
Pupils at Quarrendon Upper school are getting made their own piece of jigsaw to be placed on the assembly hall wall, each jigsaw puzzle will fit together with the names of each students on each. The project was completed in early 2007 .
[edit] Discipline
Quarrendon School has introduced discipline into the school, this meaning students are no longer allowed to venture out of the school grounds at all.
[edit] Pupil Equipment
Pupils at Quarrendon school are expected to produce sufficient equipment in lessons failure to do so will result in detention.
[edit] Reputation
Quarrendon's reputation has been tainted throughout the years but now Mr Johnson sets put to restore the reputation of the school, and improving the school further, by introducing new uniform.
[edit] Physical Education
Pupils are encouraged to get involved in activities in all student years a rotation scheme has been introduced meaning students will participate in a variety of sports throughout the year.
[edit] Playground area
The school playground area built up of tarmac is allegedly laid with fresh tarmac every year to ensure the safety of its students.
[edit] Links with other schools and colleges
Quarrendon has close links with Mandeville Upper School in Aylesbury as part of the Aylesbury School Sports Partnership[9]. Quarrendon is also a member of the Aylesbury Vale Leading Edge Partnership[10] which includes The Grange School and Waddesdon Church of England School.
The school also has close links with Aylesbury College, and sends students there weekly .
Quarrendon also maintains links with its feeder primary schools and hosts an annual primary schools sports day.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Emmerson Boyce, footballer[11]
[edit] References
- ^ Schools Directory. Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved on 2006-08-03.
- ^ The Bucks Herald (2001) Memory Lane Aylesbury: The Post-War Years. Derby: Breedon Books
- ^ Monitoring Visits. Ofsted. Retrieved on 2007-09-27.
- ^ "Improving school lays out five-year vision", Aylesbury Today (The Bucks Herald), 21 March 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
- ^ Quarrendon School Catchment Area Map. Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved on 2006-12-14.
- ^ "Infrastructure, Infrastructure, Infrastructure...", Aylesbury Today (The Bucks Herald), 12 July 2006. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
- ^ "Quarrendon school could become an academy", Aylesbury Today (The Bucks Herald), 5 December 2007. Retrieved on 2007-12-10.
- ^ "School could be science academy", BBC News, 9 December 2007. Retrieved on 2007-12-10.
- ^ Aylesbury Partnership. Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes School Sports Partnership. Retrieved on 2007-04-23.
- ^ The Standards Site: Leading Edge Partnership programme. Department for Children, Schools and Families. Retrieved on 2008-01-28.
- ^ "Boyce done good!", BBC Beds, Herts and Bucks. Retrieved on 2007-08-13.
