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STRATTON UPPER SCHOOL FARM APPEAL |
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The School fundraising appeal is supported by the Kathleen and Michael Connolly Foundation UK.
The Foundation has pledged to donate a pound for every pound we can raise.
This means we’ll be doubling our money!
We are trying to raise £150,000 in order to rebuild
the school farm and if we do this we can
access £150,000 from other funding sources. Please help us raise as much money as possible. Take a look at the
Farm Fundraising Leaflet
for more details.
This link takes you to our partner in the
fundraising appeal:
The Connolly Foundation
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Whether you have just stumbled onto our website, are visiting the school for the first time, or are someone whom we might call an old friend of Stratton, we would like to extend to you a very warm welcome.
In 2007 we chose to specialise in mathematics and computing (ICT) because we recognise the importance of these subjects to every young person. However, to ensure both breadth and balance in our curriculum we are pursuing success as an Arts Mark School and thus far have achieved the silver award. Along side these successes we are very proud to be a Training School providing professional development opportunities for our own staff, trainee teachers and school staff across Central Bedfordshire.
Stratton has rightly been recognised as an inclusive school. We are the only upper school in Biggleswade and it is important to us to be seen as providing an appropriate and positive educational experience for every young person in our community.
At Stratton we think of ourselves as members of a learning school, which means we are constantly striving for improvement. The most recent OFSTED report (November 2009) recognises the very strong upward trend in GCSE and A level results and describes us as a good school with many outstanding features. Importantly it points out that the school on many occasions demonstrated our ability to recognise and tackle weaknesses and continuously improve. We have the ambition, the vision and the ability to become an outstanding school within the next three years.
We were pleased that the school’s success was recognised in our OFSTED reports of both 2005 and 2007 and most recently in 2009. Areas of outstanding performance identified in the reports were:
- Care, Guidance and Support
- The extent to which students feel safe
- The effectiveness of our safeguarding procedures
- The learning and progress of students with Special Education Needs and Disabilities
- The effectiveness of partnerships in promoting learner well-being
- The effectiveness with which the school promotes equality of opportunity and tackles discrimination.
Our ethos at Stratton is built around involvement, rights and responsibilities of every individual. Rights are for everyone: students, parents and staff alike but responsibilities go with them, hand in hand. We are always looking for opportunities for our students to show their sense of responsibility and we always try to treat them as young adults. A brief list of some of our major initiatives (in this respect) includes:
- An active Student Leadership Group
- A Student Research Group
- Students as Learning Partners to the teachers
- Peer Counsellors
- (and much more)
All of this activity has been rewarded with recognition of our students’ achievements well away from school as well as in school via constantly improving examination results. Recently our students, from years nine to twelve, have spoken and made presentations about their work at both regional and national conferences. Every year our students’ public service is recognised by the granting of “The Princess Diana Award” to individuals and groups of students. Above all, our students have helped us ensure that lessons are productive and enjoyable.
Of great importance to us is the quality of relationships between parents and the school. We have high expectations of our students both in terms of their behaviour and the academic progress they make whilst with us. We know that without the support of parents these expectations will not be met. We regularly seek views about the school and include them in our school improvements plans. We act vigorously to stamp out bullying and violence of any sort.
You are welcome to come and see us at work. Please ring to make an appointment, so that we can make arrangements to show you around properly. We usually ask Sixth Form students to act as tour guides. At the end of the tour we will provide you with an opportunity to meet a member of the school’s Leadership Team so that we can answer any questions that you may have.
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Week beginning:
20th Oct 2008
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