Grendon Underwood School, Buckinghamshire

<body> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" style="margin-bottom: 18" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td width="465" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <h1> Grendon Underwood County Combined School </h1> </td> <td width="135" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top"><img border="0" src="images/Grendon_School_sm.gif" width="135" height="66"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" colspan="2" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="border: 1 solid #000080"> <p align="center" style="margin-left: 3; margin-right: 3; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3"><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS"> <nobr>[ <a href="home.htm" target="">Welcome</a> ]</nobr> <nobr>[ <a href="our_work/our_work.htm" target="">Our Work</a> ]</nobr> <nobr>[ <a href="information.htm" target="">Information</a> ]</nobr> <nobr>[ <a href="frogs/frogs.htm" target="">FrOGS</a> ]</nobr> <nobr>[ <a href="really_useful.htm" target="">Really Useful</a> ]</nobr> <nobr>[ <a href="recent_news.htm" target="">Newsletter</a> ]</nobr> <nobr>[ <a href="contact_us.htm" target="">Contact Us</a> ]</nobr> </font></p> </td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="600"> <tr> <td> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Grendon Underwood Combined School opened in 1964 for children between the ages of 4+ and 11 years. It is housed on a large pleasant site currently with twelve classrooms and a well-equipped library. There is a multi purpose Hall/Dining Room for assembly, PE and packed lunches, a cookery room, music room and ICT suite.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">The school is set in spacious, attractive grounds with extensive grassed areas for games and sports, a picnic area and a large pond and wildlife area.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">We are a foundation school which means that we are maintained by Buckinghamshire Education Authority.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Over the years we have built and maintained a reputation for high achievement in a caring environment. Our aim is to combine the best of traditional and modern approaches.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref"><b>The School Staff and Governors</b></font></p> <p align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Please <b><a href="governors/staff_and_governors.htm">click here</a></b> to view details of staff and governors.</font></p> <p><b><font face="Verdana Ref" size="2">Areas Served by School</font></b></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">We take pupils aged between 4+ and 11 from the villages of Edgcott, Grendon Underwood, Kingswood, Calvert, Charndon, Ludgershall and Wotton Underwood.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">At age 8 or 9 pupils transfer from Marsh Gibbon and Twyford First Schools. These pupils come from Poundon, Marsh Gibbon, Twyford and Calvert Green.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Families from outside these areas also choose to send children to Grendon Underwood Combined School.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref"><b>Destination of Leavers</b></font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Buckinghamshire operates a selective system of education for pupils of secondary school age. Pupils in Year 6 (11 years old) undertake the 11+ examination in the Autumn Term. The result of the exams and subsequent consultation with school informs the County Council on its selection of pupils for secondary schools. Pupils do not have to take the 11+ and in these instances are allocated a place at their local Upper Schools.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">We are constantly developing and improving our liaison with these schools. We have close links with the Grammar and Upper Schools and staff attend open evenings and receive reports on our leavers from the Schools that we feed.</font></p> <hr width="600" size="1"> </td> </tr> </table> <blockquote> </blockquote> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="50%"><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">On this site you can find out more about the school, view our weekly newsletter, see some of the children's work and what they've been doing on recent trips,<br> and much more . . . .</font> <blockquote> <ul> <li><a href="our_work/our_work.htm"><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Our Work</font></a></li> <li><a href="trips/trips.htm"><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Trips</font></a></li> <li><a href="recent_news.htm"><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Newsletter</font></a></li> <li><a href="really_useful.htm"><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Useful Dates</font></a></li> <li><a href="frogs/frogs.htm"><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Friends of Grendon School</font></a></li> <li><a href="information.htm"><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Information</font></a></li> </ul> </blockquote> </td> <td valign="top" width="50%" style="border-left-style: dotted; border-left-width: 1"><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref"> Latest Additons:</font> <ul> <li><a href="barton_hall_03/barton_contents.htm"><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Y5 / Y6 Barton Hall 2003</font></a></li> <li><a href="shortenhills/index.htm"><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Y4 Shortenhills 2003</font></a></li> <li><a href="comicrelief/comicrelief.htm"><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Comic Relief 2003</font></a></li> <li><a href="romeoandjuliet/index.htm"><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Romeo and Juliet</font></a></li> <li><a href="our_work/multicultural_week.htm"><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Multicultural Week 2003</font></a></li> <li><a href="sports/sport.htm"><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Cross Country Photos</font></a></li> <li><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Were you here:</font> <ul> <li><a href="past_years/pastpupils1974.htm"><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">in 1974?</font></a></li> <li><a href="past_years/pastyears.htm"><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">more recently?</font></a></li> </ul> </li> <li><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">History projects</font> <ul> <li><a href="our_work/georgina_hewison.htm"><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">by Georgina Hewison</font></a></li> <li><a href="our_work/lora_thomson.htm"><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">and by Lora Thomson</font></a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="policies/policies.htm"><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Policies updated and added</font></a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="600"> <tr> <td> <hr width="600" size="1"> <font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">We are always adding more information as and when it becomes available.</font> <blockquote> <ul> <li><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref"><b><a href="recent_news.htm">News</a></b></font></li> <li><a href="info/prospectus.htm"><b><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Prospectus</font></b></a></li> <li><a href="policies/policies.htm"><b><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Policies</font></b></a></li> <li><a href="governors/staff_and_governors.htm"><b><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Staff and Governors</font></b></a></li> <li><a href="really_useful.htm"><b><font size="2" face="Verdana Ref">Diary</font></b></a></li> </ul> </blockquote> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" style="margin-top: 18"> <tr> <td style="border: 1 solid #000080" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="-2">© 2000-2003 <b>Grendon Underwood Combined School</b><br> Main Street, Grendon  Underwood, Buckinghamshire, HP18 0SP | Telephone: 01296 770388 |  Fax: 01296 770945<br> e-mail: <a href="mailto:office@gucs.org.uk?SUBJECT=Message from the GUCS web site">office@gucs.org.uk</a> | Headteacher: Mr. T C G Heaton</font></p> </td> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td><font size="-2" color="#808080"><i><a href="http://www.annwebcom.co.uk/" target="_top" style="color: #808080; text-decoration:none;">AnnWebCom</a></i></font></td> </tr> </table> </body>