“schools in Buckinghamshire”

Weedon Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP19 9NS

Information about this school

 The Buckinghamshire Primary Pupil Referral Unit operates across three separate sites: The Oaks in Amersham; Pathways in Aylesbury; and Woodlands in High Wycombe.  The school caters for pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs. Many pupils are at risk of being permanently excluded. Most pupils attend the school on short-term, part-time placements. These pupils are dual registered with their home school. Some pupils are on single-registered placements. The school’s aim is to support the reintegration of pupils into mainstream school.  The local authority commissions outreach support where the school works with other schools within Buckinghamshire to help reduce the risk of pupils being excluded from school.  The chair of the management committee took up post in February 2023.  The school does not currently use any alternative provision.

Weedon Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP19 9NS

Information about this school

 The Buckinghamshire Primary Pupil Referral Unit currently operates across two separate sites: Pathways in Aylesbury and Woodlands in High Wycombe. Prior to September 2024, the school also provided education at a third site, The Oaks in Amersham.  The school caters for pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs. Many pupils also have other needs, including communication and interaction and cognition and learning. The majority of pupils attend the school on short-term part-time placements. A small number of pupils attend full-time and are on single-registered placements. Almost all pupils are dual registered with their home school. Pupils attending the school are at risk of being permanently excluded. The school’s aim is to support pupils’ integration back into mainstream school, or specialist provision.  The school provides outreach support to other schools in Buckinghamshire. This support is to help reduce the risk of pupils being suspended or permanently excluded

Winslow, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, MK18 3BL

Information about this school

 The school caters for pupils with autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and communication needs. All pupils have an EHC plan.  Pupils are placed at the school by Buckinghamshire local authority.  Many pupils join the school at different points in their school life.  This school is currently using one registered alternative provider and four unregistered alternative providers.  The school meets the requirements of the provider access legislation, which requires schools to provide pupils in Years 8 to 13 with information and engagement about approved technical education qualifications and apprenticeships. 20 and 21 February 2024

Daws Hill Lane, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP11 1PW

Information about the school

This small school is the only Catholic secondary school in Buckinghamshire, and draws its students widely from across the county. It has a small sixth form. The county operates a system of selective grammar schools and non-selective secondary schools, and St Bernard's does not select on grounds of academic ability. The proportion of students known to be eligible for a free school meal is low, and the proportion with special educational needs and/or disabilities, chiefly with specific or moderate learning difficulties, is below average. The proportion of students from minority ethnic backgrounds is above average and has risen steadily in recent years, with a particular increase in the number of students of Eastern European, particularly Polish, heritage. A high proportion of students speak English as an additional language, and 19 of these are at an early stage of learning the language. Mobility into the school after the usual time of admission in Year 7 is high.

Ellen Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 8ES

Information about this school

 The principal joined the school in November 2015, very shortly before the previous inspection.  School leaders have been supported in their work to improve the school by advisers from the Buckinghamshire Learning Trust.  The school is a non-selective comprehensive secondary school and has a sixth form.  The majority of pupils are of White British heritage.  The school has an average proportion of disadvantaged pupils.  The proportion of pupils who have SEN and/or disabilities is lower than average. The proportion of pupils who have an education, health and care plan is higher than average.  The school does not make use of any alternative provision.  The school does not meet the government’s floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils’ attainment and progress.

Oxford Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 8PB · Part of The Merchant Taylors' Oxfordshire Academy Trust Ltd

What is it like to attend this school?

Buckinghamshire UTC is a supportive and inclusive community. Pupils enjoy learning in this caring environment. They particularly appreciate studying either computing or building studies, which are the college’s two current specialisms. Pupils work safely on practical activities. They follow instructions with thought and care. Pupils’ learning is enriched through the high-quality facilities available and the close links the college has with the network of employers. However, too many pupils do not attend college regularly enough.

Stoke Leys Close, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 9ET · Part of The Vale Federation

Information about this school

overall head of the Vale Federation.  The school works with several professionals with varying specialisms commissioned by external agencies, including the National Health Service. There is an on-site team of speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and physiotherapists.  Pupils are organised into three departments according to their special educational needs. One department caters for pupils in the early years, Key Stage 1 and 2 with profound and multiple learning difficulties, and pupils with low-functioning autism and sensory processing difficulties. A second department provides for pupils from Years 1 to 6 who experience behavioural, emotional and social difficulties and/or high- functioning autism. The third department caters for pupils from Years 1 to 6 who have moderate and severe learning difficulties. Approximately a third of the pupils have a diagnosis of autism.  The school is part of the Buckinghamshire Teaching School Initial Teaching Training Partnership. This is a

Wooburn Green, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP10 0HF

External support

The Buckinghamshire Learning Trust and Chepping View Academy have provided a wide range of support to the school in recent years. There has been limited impact from the external support received to improve rapidly the quality of teaching and to accelerate pupils’ progress and also to improve the quality of leadership and management across the school. The Buckinghamshire Learning Trust focus group, which monitors the school’s progress, has recognised that the school is not making reasonable progress towards the removal of special measures.

Verney Avenue, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP12 3NE

Information about this school

 All pupils who attend the school have an EHC plan. The school caters for pupils with a broad range of SEND, including autism, speech, language and communication needs, moderate learning difficulty or profound and multiple learning difficulties.  Since the last inspection, a new headteacher has been appointed.  The school is situated across two sites: Verney Avenue, Cressex and Faulkner Way, Downley, Buckinghamshire.  The school uses one unregistered alternative provision.  The school meets the requirements of the provider access legislation, which requires schools to provide pupils in Years 8 to 13 with information and engagement about approved technical education qualifications and apprenticeships. 15 and 16 May 2024

Churchill Avenue, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 8LZ

Description of the school

This is a day and residential special school for secondary-aged pupils with moderate learning difficulties; a small number of pupils have emotional, social and behavioural learning difficulties or severe learning difficulties. Attainment on entry is well below average. Boys outnumber girls by almost three to one. Most pupils are White British but a significant minority are of Asian heritage. Pupils generally come from backgrounds that are socio-economically disadvantaged. The school currently provides weekly boarding for 17 of its 73 pupils. It also offers boarding accommodation to pupils from other local Buckinghamshire special schools that do not have their own residential accommodation. The school gained Investor in People status in 2005. The last inspection judged that there were serious weaknesses in the curriculum, assessment and management.

Churchill Avenue, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 8LZ

Information about the school

Pebble Brook is a day and residential special school for secondary-aged students with moderate learning difficulties, many of whom have additional emotional, social and behavioural difficulties and/or disabilities. Boys outnumber girls by almost three to one. Most students are White British but a minority are of Asian heritage. The school provides flexible weekly boarding for up to 25 students. This includes provision of boarding accommodation for students from other Buckinghamshire special schools. In the past year the school was unable to offer boarding provision for a period of three months as a result of a failure in the heating system and consequent damage to the building. At the time of the inspection, areas of the building, including those used by the school, were still unusable.

Land End Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP12 4JG

Information about this school

with attention deficit disorders and autistic spectrum conditions.  The school works closely with Buckinghamshire County Council, who places the majority of pupils at the school. Leaders have also forged strong links with professionals from health, police and social care.  Pupils join the school at different times and with very different abilities. Most pupils currently at the school joined in this academic year, over one quarter have joined since January 2017.  The school does not use any alternative provision.  The aim of the school is: ‘We support the potential to achieve.’  The board of directors is responsible for the governance of the school. The board has two non-executive members who have relevant educational experience.

Land End Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP12 4JG

Information about this school

 The school has places for pupils between the ages of 13 and 16 years who have severe social, emotional and mental health needs. All pupils have an EHC plan.  The school now operates solely from Unit 3, Spearmast Industrial Estate, Land End Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP12 4JG. The school’s former premises at Station Road, Chesham has closed. The school intends to only admit up to 20 pupils at its current site.  At the time of this inspection the school was using two unregistered alternative provisions.

Coventon Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP19 9JL

Information about this school

 The school is registered for up to 43 pupils with complex physical disabilities. There are currently 38 pupils on the school’s roll. Most pupils have cerebral palsy and sensory impairment. Some use augmentative alternative communication. All pupils require very high levels of personal support and medical care.  Almost all pupils have an EHC plan. They are placed at the school by local authorities, including Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hounslow and Hillingdon. A few pupils attend on a part-time basis.  The school provides an integrated curriculum which includes principles from a specialist teaching method known as conductive education. This approach adopts individual physical learning programmes for each pupil and provides one-to-one support throughout the school day.  The school operates on two sites which are located at Coventon Road and Wendover Road in Aylesbury.  The school does not currently use any alternative provision.

309 Cressex Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP12 4QF

Information about this proposed school

 High Wycombe Hospital School intends to register as an independent special school in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. It is not currently operating and has never done so.  The school intends to offer co-educational day places to the pupils aged 11 to 18 who are admitted for support with their special educational needs (SEN) and/or disabilities.  The school intends to open in September 2018.  The school will be managed and governed by the Priory group. The school will be led by an executive headteacher and head of school.  Leaders wish to register the school to cater for 11- to 18-year-olds, not 13- to 18-year- olds, as per the original application.

Sherbourne Walk, Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, SL2 3TZ · Part of Farnham Common Village Schools

Short inspection of Farnham Common Junior School

You have made sure that the curriculum is broad and engaging for all pupils. The Year 3 Stone Age ‘Great British Bake Off’ menus made the period of history very accessible to pupils as they devised particularly gory dishes. Pupils also participate in a wide range of activities and clubs run by school staff and external companies. Your lunchtime bicycle club uses sports funding to ensure that by the time pupils leave the school, every one of them can ride a bicycle safely and carry out bicycle maintenance. The school has, excitingly, earned a place in the biking finals at the Buckinghamshire school games. Trips to local places of interest, for example Burnham Beeches, allow pupils to develop team-building skills and resilience while orienteering. Pupils appreciate opportunities to develop their leadership skills by running their own clubs too, undertaking duties such as being playground ambassadors and contributing to the school council.

Fairford Leys, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP19 7WF · Part of Oxford Diocesan Bucks Schools Trust

Information about the inspection

During this inspection, I met with you, other school leaders, members of the governing body and two representatives from the Oxford Diocese and Buckinghamshire Schools Trust. I also had a telephone conversation with a local authority school improvement adviser. I also met staff and a group of pupils. I considered 62 responses from parents to Parent View, Ofsted’s online questionnaire, including free-text comments, and 10 responses to the staff survey. I visited classes in the early years, key stage 1 and key stage 2, and I looked at examples of pupils’ work from a range of subjects and year groups. I also looked at documentation covering different aspects of the school’s work, including safeguarding and the school’s self-evaluation.

Holtspur, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1BH

Text from letter to pupils explaining the findings of the inspection

13 October 2008 Dear Pupils Inspection of Holtspur School,Buckinghamshire,HP9 1BH I am writing to let you know what we found out about your school when we recently came to visit you. Thank you for making us so welcome. We especially enjoyed talking to you about how you are getting on. It was nice to see so many of you enjoying music when the experts came in on Wednesday afternoon. We think you behave well and know you enjoy coming to school because so many of you told us. These are the main things we found out about your school.

Oxford Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 8PB · Part of The Merchant Taylors' Oxfordshire Academy Trust Ltd

Information about this school

 Buckinghamshire UTC opened in 2013. It has a range of academic and business sponsors. The majority of its business sponsors are from the world of construction and digital technology. They include Taylor Wimpey, Intel Security, Cisco Systems, and Esri UK. Its academic sponsors are Aylesbury College and Bucks New University.  The curriculum at the UTC is specialised to focus on computer science and construction. A core part of the UTC’s provision is delivered through the college’s work with business partners.  The UTC is much smaller than an average secondary school and has students in Years 10, 11, 12 and 13. The sixth form is smaller than average.  There is a much smaller proportion of girls at the UTC than boys than is nationally the case.  The proportion of pupils eligible for the government’s pupil premium grant is in line with average.  The proportion of pupils receiving special educational needs support is below average but the proportion

56 Amersham Hill, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP13 6PQ

Information about this school

 The school operates from five sites across Buckinghamshire: - The Wycombe Grange, CSEC (Chiltern Skills and Enterprise Centre) and Blueprint are alternative provision schools. They provide education for pupils who have been permanently excluded and for pupils who are at risk of exclusion from mainstream schools. - Shortenills provides full-time, long-term education for pupils who have social, emotional and mental health needs. All have an education, health and care plan (EHCP). - Orchard House provides part-time, short-term education for pupils with mental health difficulties. - The school also provides part-time home tuition for pupils who are unable to attend school due to medical reasons. - The school provides outreach support to local schools for pupils who are at risk of permanent exclusion, as well as supporting reintegration into mainstream school. 21 and 22 June 2022