St Michael's Catholic School, High Wycombe

St. Michael's Catholic School
Motto "Living in the Light of the Gospel"
Established 1973
Type Voluntary aided school
all through
Religion Roman Catholic
Headteacher Garret Fay[1]
Location Daws Hill Lane
High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire
HP11 1PW
England
51°37′06″N 0°45′21″W / 51.61846°N 0.75586°W / 51.61846; -0.75586Coordinates: 51°37′06″N 0°45′21″W / 51.61846°N 0.75586°W / 51.61846; -0.75586
Local authority Buckinghamshire
DfE URN 110516 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Staff 100+
Students 1124[1]
Gender Coeducational
Ages 3–19
Houses 4
Colours      Sky blue
     Black
Diocese Northampton
Specialism Science College
Dedication Saint Michael
Website stmichaels.bucks.sch.uk

St Michael's Catholic School is a Catholic all-through voluntary aided school located in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. The school has 1124 pupils and takes children from the age of 3 through to the age of 19 years.[1]

In February 2017, it was announced that the school was proposing for the creation of a satellite school at the Aylesbury Vale Academy's former site in neighbouring Aylesbury due to lack of space and population increase predictions. If the proposals go ahead, the school is expected to open in September 2018 with a Year 7 intake of 120 students.[2] The schools catchment area for many years has included Aylesbury and surrounding areas, which has a high proportion of baptised Catholics.[3][4]

History

Founded in 1973 as St Bernard's Catholic School as a satelite of St Bernard's Catholic Grammar School in Slough in 2011 it amalgamated with neighbouring Catholic primary school St Augustine's creating an all-through school called St Augustine's and St Bernard's Catholic School.[5]

According to the BBC's Domesday Project, in 1986 the school has 840 pupils between the ages of 11 and 16 years. The buildings were reported to have been 10 years old at the time in front of extensive playing fields on a site of 17 acres.[6]

In September 2008, St Bernard's Catholic School was awarded specialist school status as a Science College, by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).[7]

In 2011 the school was among 494 schools nationwide praised by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust for its fast impriovement of GCSE results. The number of pupils getting five A* - C grades, including English and Maths, increased from 42 per cent in 2009 to 64 per cent in 2011.[8]

From September 2012 the school stopped being called St Augustine's and St Bernard's Catholic School and is now known by its current name.

Houses

In the primary phase there are four houses, all named for the Four Evangelists:

House Colour
Matthew      Green
Mark      Yellow
Luke      Red
John      Blue

In the secondary phase there are also four houses, each named instead for English Catholic martyrs:

House Colour
Becket      Green
Campion      Red
Fisher      Blue
Moore      Yellow

References

  1. 1 2 3 "URN 110516 St Michael's Catholic School". Edubase/DfE. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "New secondary school for Aylesbury?". Mix 96. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "Proposed opening of a satellite school by St Michael’s Catholic School on the former Quarrendon School site in Aylesbury Town" (PDF). St Michael's Catholic School. Feb 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  4. ↑ "Questions and answers on the proposed opening of a satellite school to St Michael’s on the former Quarrendon School site in Aylesbury" (PDF). St Michael's Catholic School. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "Amalgamation of St Bernard's Catholic School and St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, High Wycombe" (PDF). Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  6. ↑ D-block GB-484000-189000 (1986). "ST BERNARD'S, HIGH WYCOMBE". BBC Domesday Reloaded. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  7. ↑ "Specialist Schools Home". DCSF. September 2008. Retrieved 22 October 2008.
  8. ↑ Dunhill, Lawrence (5 April 2011). "School recognised for improving GCSE results". Bucks Free Press. Retrieved 27 February 2017.


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