Quarrendon Upper School

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Quarrendon Upper School
Motto: Loyalty & Perseverance
Established	1957
Type	Co-Educational Secondary School
Headteacher	Mr Jonathan Johnson
Students	800
Location	Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire United Kingdom
Colours	Green & Yellow
Email	office@quarrendon.bucks.sch.uk
Website	www.quarrendon.bucks.sch.uk

Quarrendon Upper School, formerly Quarrendon County Secondary 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 16. The school has approximately 800 pupils.^[1]

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

There are plans to close the school in 2009, and to move to a new site, built as part of the Berryfields Major Development Area (MDA). Housing will replace the school on the current site. However, there is currently some doubt as to whether this will happen.^[4]

1 Equipment
2 Educational Areas
3 Teaching Staff
4 School improvement
5 Pupil Involvement
6 Dicipline
7 Pupil Equipment
8 Reputation
9 Physical Education
10 Playground area
11 Links with other schools and colleges
12 References
13 External links

[edit] Equipment

The school has a fully equiped library wirth educational books, several computers as well as magazines and a printer/scanner for student and teacher use.Close to the library are areas of use for the disabled students that learn at Quarrendon.

[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 a assembly is being presented.The buildings that house the children are:

Science Block
English block
Pe gym
Sports hall
A tower block for linguistics, maths , Geography , Business Studies and I.T.
Medical facilities for students experiencing difficulty.
Student reception
Visitors Reception
Canteen
Dance/performing arts hall

[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 being vastly 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.

[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 puzle will fit together with the names of each students on each.The project is soon to be completed in early 2007.

[edit] Dicipline

Quarrendon School has intoduced dicipline into the school,this meaning studets are no longer allowed top venture out of the school grounds all except from the 16 year old pupils in year 11 , their last year.Also students must wear the correct uniform as mufty days have been banned due to reputation factors.

[edit] Pupil Equipment

Every assembly students will be picked out at random for and equipment check,faliure in producing the correct equipment results in an hour's detention.

[edit] Reputation

Quarrendons reputation has been tainted throughout the years but now Mr J.Jhonson sets put to restore the reputation of the school,and improving the school further.

[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 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 and is a member of the Aylesbury Vale Leading Edge Partnership^[5] which also includes The Grange School and Waddesdon Church of England School.

The school also has close links with Aylesbury College, and sends students to the college to take a variety of courses, which would not otherwise be available.

Quarrendon also maintains links with its feeder primary schools and hosts an annual primary schools sports day.