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24 May 2019
Dear all,
With best wishes,
Mr A McGinnes
Headteacher
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An introduction to our Student First Team
We aim to provide an all embracing service for our students, working together to develop and maintain their social, emotional, mental health and wellbeing.
The team consists of five members of staff, all of whom have a wealth of experience in their own areas of expertise. The aim is to always put students first and offer them support and guidance, as well as providing necessary support for parents and carers. We also refer to and work with organisations who provide additional support for young people and their families when necessary.
We liaise with staff, parents and outside agencies to provide the best outcomes for our young people and support them with any barriers they may face in their learning and personal achievement.
The team work closely with Form Tutors, Heads of Year and their respective teams to maximise the learning potential for our students. By having this close working relationship, we are able to help identify and support students who may be experiencing difficulties which could be a barrier to their learning and social wellbeing.
The Buckingham School is totally committed to inclusion and values diversity. We understand difficulties, recognise and respect individual differences so all students feel valued. We provide targeted support through Student First and the SEND team for students identified as having a special educational need (a child who has a difficulty or disability which makes learning harder for them than for other children their age).
To find out more about each team member, click below.
jo goodger - director of welfare & attendance
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Jo is Director of Welfare and Attendance and one of the Designated Safeguarding Leads within school.
Jo works with students and families who are supported
by agencies, liaising with agencies both inside and outside of school.
Jo acts as a source of information and expertise regarding child protection and safeguarding matters. She also works with children who are in local authority care.
When students attend school on a regular basis, they achieve better academic results, their confidence grows and self-esteem increases. Jo supports individual students to ensure they attend school, helping with strategies to overcome any barriers, including meeting with parents through home visits as well as school meetings.
The school has a strong working relationship with the local Schools’ Police Officer and Jo works closely with their team, addressing individual issues that arise, or sharing information that may be of particular interest to the whole school community.
Prior to working at The Buckingham School, Jo worked at the Secure Training Centre at Her Majesty’s Young Offenders Unit. She has extensive experience working with young people who were remanded or sentenced to periods of detention.
Jo is also Assistant Head of Year 7.
jgoodger@buckinghamschool.org | Telephone. 01280 8186
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Enrichment Week 2019
Do I need to add / is the survey still open?
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TBS REPRESENTED IN GIRLS COUNTY RUGBY
After a series of trials in January three of our girls have been selected for the Bucks RFU County Rugby squads. With over 100 girls, at each age group, playing rugby in Buckinghamshire to be selected to represent the county is a huge honour.
Katie Lee (Year 11) has been selected for the U18 squad as a hooker. Katie is a skilful player who works hard around the pitch for her team. She is also an accomplished goal kicker and regularly takes the teams conversions. The U18 squad is made up of Year 11, 12 & 13s, so to make the squad in Year 11 is a great achievement.
Daisy Bateman (Year 10) and Amy Lee (Year 9) have been selected for the U15 squad. Daisy plays as a prop and is a powerful scrummager whilst making vital yards in the loose with her direct ball carrying. Amy plays in the centre using her pace and power to score tries regularly whilst being renowned for her strong tackling in defence.
The picture shows the girls after they competed in the South West inter-counties festival against Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Dorset & Wiltshire in February at Newbury RFC.
All three girls play at Buckingham Rugby Club where new members are always welcome. Please contact buckinghamrfccygnets@gmail.com if you would like more information.
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Buckingham's Got Talent
Have shared the winners of the interhouse Buckinghams Got Talent Compeition in a folder with you, I do not know whether all of their photos can be shared on social media so will share names and leave it to you! it was a brilliant night !
Judges; Andy McGinnis/Rebecca Branson and Matt Wardle
Overall Winners - therefore house winners - were - Silverstone House - Tatyana Muzonda & Amy Taylor (yr 10) singing
Most entertaining - Kit Jarvis yr 7 Claydon - Magician (in the style of Tommy Cooper)
Most Unique act - Leo Maskou - yr 10 Swan Juggling and Cossack dancing !
Rosie Maskell (video)
Poppy Davies (video)
Tatyana Muzonda & Amy Taylor
Shakira Salter
Alistair Grass
Kit Jarvis
Daniel Pepler
Paige Makwana
Skye Davis
Ella & Brooke
Jennifer Moor
Megan Towse
Jonathan Muzandaka
Hollie Barson
Leo Maskou
Jodie Bowen
William Prince & James Russell
Marcy Barnes & Laura Wayman
Nimrah Althar
Macie Vaughan & Scarlett Baldry
Lexi Bursnoll
Ruby Rayner
James Judge
Charlotte Davidson
Jonathan Muzandaka
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From: alan keer <alankeer@outlook.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 6:58 PM
Subject: James keer
To: Tracy Lewis <tlewis@buckinghamschool.org>
Hi Tracy
Just a quick mail to let you know James organised a cake sale today in aid of prostate cancer UK.
He baked all the cakes from lemon cakes ,coffee cake and cup cakes with gingerbread men, he put up posters around the village and stood outside for two hours !
He raised a total of £100
His grandad has been treated for prostate cancer recently so is a cause close to his heart!
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Nulogic
Over the Easter break we were lucky enough to have Nulogic work with 50 of our year 11 students. There were two groups of 25 students. One group focused on crucial mathematical content for the upcoming Maths GCSE. They covered various topics and the feedback from students and staff involved has been overwhelmingly positive. One student wrote “The course was really good, and provided a unique learning environment. They made learning fun and exciting. I would highly recommend this course for the future year 11's next year.” The English course focused on critical content needed for their GCSE English Language paper. Again, the feedback from staff and students shows how well this was received by students and how much they felt it helped progress their understanding of key parts of the course and how their confidence has increased. One wrote “I think that it was very very good and it has helped my progress massively.” Our gratitude goes to Nulogic for planning and delivering a great programme to help our students, Mr Hunt and Mrs Field for staffing the programme and the students for their outstanding levels of participation and engagement.
In addition, thank you to Mr Fox, Miss Branson, Miss Chapman and Mr Siu for their help organising the programme.
Mr Ryan
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MK Magistrates Competition - Saturday 18 May
update from JMA after event.
Mr J Mandel, PSHE Lead
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Adult Nationals (Formerly British Adult Championships)
Every year, the home of British Ice Skating - Sheffield Ice Arena - hosts an Adult ice skating championship where adults from around the UK of an amateur/non-professional level can compete. There are several categories ranging from Ice Dance (Ballroom on ice) to Figure Skating (combination jumps and spins). This is big event in the calendar and often attracts a large competitive field.
Several months of 5am starts, three times per week, culminated on Thursday 25th April as I prepared to compete for the second year in this competition. Having secured two Gold medals previously in the Solo Ladies Pre-Bronze Pattern Dance category, I was excited and nervous to compete, particularly as I wanted to not only retain my title but improve on my personal best score.
There are two dances skated, which are determined by the ISU (International Skating Union), which usually change each year, however, this year they remained the same; a Dutch Waltz and a Riverside Rhumba. As they are compulsory pattern dances, everyone should skate the same steps and pattern, but can choose their own music. There is an emphasis on deep edges and strong patterns skated across the ice IN TIME. You are marked on: technical accuracy, grade of execution (GOE), and timing.
My morning practice didn’t go so well as the nerves really kicked in; the most defining aspect was not being able to skate in time to the music! However, as soon as the music started for the Dutch Waltz, all nerves disappeared, and I finished with a new PB of 11.58 (this is very good) and secured first place. After a three-hour wait, I skated my second dance, the Riverside Rhumba. No PB for this dance, missing out by 0.2, but I still secured first place in this dance, resulting in an overall new PB of 22.20 and two new Gold medals!
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U14 Rugby Championship
On Thursday 2nd May, the Year 9 boys rugby team won the U14 Rugby Championship final beating John Hampden Grammar School 29-5. Buckingham started the game strongly with early tries from Alfie Bull and Jobe Read, with the latter going off just before the half with a wrist injury. A frantic second-half saw a fightback emerging from JHGS with an early try, but the boys dug in deep with a ferocious defensive display to prevent them getting over the line again. The win was confirmed in the last 15 minutes, with tries from Lewis Linford, Joe McGuire as well as the captain William Glister. Two conversions from Henry Pearson wrapped up the points. Four of our Year 8 boys also played their part and were truly immense in the game. Jake Weingart at fullback, Joe McGuire and Leo Talbot in the front 3 and George Pearson coming on at half time with an assured performance at fly half.
It is an incredible triumph for the boys to win, with the trophy being dominated by Grammar Schools in the past. Well done, thoroughly deserved!
Mr J Ribbans (Head Coach)
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Student Leadership Team
Anything to add / report on.
Mrs A Wallace, Student Voice Co-ordinator
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Year 10 girls visited Volkswagen last Friday, May 3rd, to find out all about the diverse world of careers open to them in the automobile industry. |
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Stowe Fruit Tree Planting ProjectAt the beginning of term, our Year 9 and 10 ASDAN students planted 29 trees for the Stowe fruit tree planting project. Working with the National Trust at Stowe, this community project aimed to improve the overflow car park for visitors and schools. All of our students worked incredibly hard and were a real credit to the school. To plant each tree, they needed to remove turf, dig a hole, plant in the tree and a supporting stake, fill the hole back in and add a stake and tree guard. The National Trust kindly took the time afterwards to write to us to let us know how grateful they were for the students' involvement. |
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They also sent us photos to show just how much the planting has already transformed this space. Our students' legacy to Stowe was to plant a tenth of these trees which aim to improve the area to become an attractive and accessible space for wildlife, visitors and groups for many years to come. |
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Governor Elections Following recent parent governor elections and the requirement to secure co-opted governors, we are pleased to confirm the following have been successfully appointed. Co-Opted Governors - Mr Andrew Homer and Mrs Jo Wells Parent Governor - Mrs Alison Combe The school truly values the work and commitment made by the governing body and we very much look forward in to welcoming on board the new members. |
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We always like to celebrate our students successes and Harry, one of our Year 7s in Stowe House, competed in the Open Junior Agility Championship recently. He won the 12s & under Jumping on Saturday, the 12s & under Agility on Sunday and the overall champion for his age group.Well done, Harry! |
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Red Nose Day - Staff Cake Sale Many thanks to Margie, Jenny, Mandy and Liz for baking delicious cakes and raising £70 for Comic Relief. Sorry, no photos....the cakes were obviously so yummy that they didn't last long enough for us to take any photos!
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We are recruiting!Would you like to be a Cover Supervisor?We are looking for you if you are a reliable, enthusiastic and highly motivated Lesson Cover Supervisor, with a real passion for inspiring learning! Have a look at the advertisement on our website, here: https://www.buckinghamschool.org/page/… |
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Dodgeball County FinalsOur Year 8 male and female Dodgeball teams took part in the Sainsbury's School Games Level 3 County Finals on Thursday, 21 March 2019. The teams faced competition from across the county and managed to win every single game, crowning them the Male County Dodgeball winners and the Female County Dodgeball winners! As a PE department, we are so proud of every player in this event, with all showing true team work and commitment throughout the competition. Well done to you all! |
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Summer 2019 Examinations Click on the link here to see the Examination timetables for all exams. |
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Thank you. We have been donated a TV screen by Year 8 parent, Mrs Bosley. The TV screen is up and running in the Humanities block, ready for our in-school message board to be launched, straight after the Easter break. Thank you so much, your kind donation is much appreciated! T Kings Associates, our uniform supplier and promotional merchandise supplier, has provided the school with a new large TV screen for our Reception area. We can now run messages, videos, newsfeeds and so much more with the digital signage project. Thank you, T Kings Associates. |
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We are still on the look out for further TV screens.Do you own a TV you no longer need? ![](/_site/data/files/images/students/7A109199BACEF045330C64B8B59EB4C6.png) We have a communications project on the go at the moment and we are going to be in need of ten television screens to make it happen. They don’t have to be smart TV or anything fancy at all; as long as they have an HDMI connection, or something similar, then they will be perfect for us. So, if you have an old TV that you no longer use or need, that you would be happy to donate to us, we would be enormously grateful. (And if you could ask family and friends on our behalf too, that would be amazing!) If you can help, please contact Kate Bones at kbones@buckinghamschool.org |
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14 Feb 2019
If you wish to report bullying, click here antibullying@buckinghamschool.org
Procedures for Reporting Bullying:
A student can report bullying in person to a member of staff or an older student.
A student can make a written report, and place it in one of the anti-bullying boxes (outside...
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