The Grange School Year 7 Starters 2024

⭐Meet the Staff ⭐

We thought it might be useful for you to 'virtually' meet some of the key staff who your children may come across or who are important people to know when they start with us in September.

Next up is the Year Team Leader for children in forms D, I, S and C = Mr Walsh 👨‍🏫
✔️ Staff Member at The Grange for 10 Years 1️⃣0️⃣
✔️ Is Head of P.E. as well as a Year Team Leader - a very busy man! 🌟
✔️ Has also taught both Art and Design Technology whilst at The Grange 🖌️
✔️ Enjoys playing football (plays for a local team) ⚽as well as going to the gym and running. Mr Walsh has run a few marathons and once ran 50 miles in 24 hours! 🏃
✔️ Has an 11-year old daughter who is starting in Year 7 in Bucks and so Mr Walsh is experiencing starting secondary school from both a parent and staff perspective 7️⃣
✔️ Lifelong Liverpool fan and mentions this A LOT! 🔴⚽
✔️ Yes... Mr Walsh's hair is natural 😆

The new Year 7's students met Mr Walsh on their transition days in July but will get to know him very well when they start in September and as they head through their first few terms. Mr Walsh's office will be located in the English Corridor.

⭐Meet the Staff ⭐

We thought it might be useful for you to 'virtually' meet some of the key staff who your children may come across or who are important people to know when they start with us in September.

Next up is our Deputy Headteacher = Mrs Brown 👩‍🏫
✔️ Deputy Headteacher at The Grange School since 2014 👑
✔️ Oversees curriculum, staffing & student achievement 🌟
✔️ Can be found in her office located in the Languages block or the canteen getting her morning latte ☕
✔️ Mrs Brown and her daughter have two guinea pigs called Fifi & Zuzu 👧
✔️ Currently teaching A Level Sociology but is a trained History teacher 📚
✔️ Strictly Come Dancing's BIGGEST SUPER FAN 💃
✔️ Loves to spend her time reading and is a member of our staff book club 📖

The new Year 7's students did meet Mrs Brown on the transition days briefly in assembly but we look forward to seeing you all again very soon! 🙂

⭐Meet the Staff ⭐

We thought it might be useful for you to 'virtually' meet some of the key staff who your children may come across or who are important people to know when they start with us in September.

Next up is our Assistant Headteacher = Mrs Jackson 👩‍🏫
✔️ Heads up the Support for Learning Team 👑
✔️ Designated Mental Health Lead for Staff & Students as well as Equalities & Diversity Lead 🌟
✔️ School link for our amazing PTA and the FAB Team (Friends against Bullying) ❌
✔️ Been at The Grange for 4 years but has been teaching in Bucks since 2001 🙂
✔️ Currently teaching A Level Sociology and PSHCE 📚
✔️ Mum to two boys (who both attend The Grange) going into Year 10 & 11 👦👦
✔️ Weekends are busy spent on the football sidelines for her boys and other family activities - big fans of Escape Rooms and getting out into the countryside 🌳
✔️ Can be found in the Support for Learning Department / IT Corridor in her office which overlooks the Duck Pond 🦆

Mrs Jackson looks forward to meeting our Year 7's in September 🙂

⭐Meet the Staff ⭐

We thought it might be useful for you to 'virtually' meet some of the key staff who your children may come across or who are important people to know when they start with us in September.

Next up are our SENDCO's - Ms Jakeman (DISC) 👩‍🏫 and Mrs Radford (OVER) 👩‍🏫

Ms Jakeman:
✔️ Longest serving member of staff at The Grange School ⏲️
✔️ Has been Head of Humanities and an Assistant Headteacher at The Grange 👨‍🏫
✔️ Been a SENDCO since 2006 for the DISC half of all year groups 🌟
✔️ Enjoys fishing 🐟, reading 📖 and gardening 🌻

Mrs Radford:
✔️ Been at The Grange for 8 years ⏲️
✔️ Teacher of Music for 19 years 🎵
✔️ Joined the Support for Learning Team as SENDCO for the OVER half of all year groups in 2020 🌟
✔️ Newly appointed SENDCO Champion for the Local Authority 👑
✔️ Enjoys family time with her two boys 👦👦 and attending music concerts/gigs 🎵

Both Ms Jakeman and Mrs Radford look forward to meeting our Year 7's in September 🙂

⭐Meet the Staff ⭐

We thought it might be useful for you to 'virtually' meet some of the key staff who your children may come across or who are important people to know when they start with us in September.

Next up is our Attendance Officer = Mrs Scroggs 👩‍🏫
✔️ Member of Staff at The Grange School for 4 years! ⏲️
✔️ Previously First Aid Officer before becoming Attendance Officer 👨‍🏫
✔️Born and Bred in Aylesbury and lived here ever since 🗺️
✔️ Previously worked in the Corporate Customer Service World as a Customer Services Manager 🙂
✔️ Can be found in the Attendance Officer in the Main Reception 🏠
✔️ Mum to an 11-Year Old boy called Oliver 👦
✔️Also Mum to two cats - Cosmo & Mitzy 😺 and recently joined by Dudley 🐶

Mrs Scroggs looks forward to meeting our Year 7's in September 🙂

⭐Meet the Staff ⭐

We thought it might be useful for you to 'virtually' meet some of the key staff who your children may come across or who are important people to know when they start with us in September.

Next up is our Student Welfare Support Assistant, Mrs Rousell 👩‍🏫
✔️ Member of Staff at The Grange School for 15 years! ⏲️
✔️ Worked as a Student Support Mentor for 8 years 👨‍🏫
✔️Based in Stapleton House (a separate building within the school grounds) - a place to go when students need some support from a non-teaching, specialist member of staff 🤗
✔️ During the Spring Term, Mrs Rousell gathers information from all our partner schools to organise transition support groups ready for September 🙂
✔️ Mrs Rousell's favourite season is Spring 🌻
✔️ Mrs Rousell loves spending time with her 4 children and going on cruises worldwide with them! Her two favourite destinations are Alaska & Barbados 🌞🏝️

Mrs Rousell looks forward to meeting some of our Year 7's in September 🙂

What a difference a year makes! At the beginning of August 2023 we'd just started work on our canteen extension. Fast forward 12 months & we now have a new indoor space to seat 80 students at a time & an all weather outdoor space for everyone to enjoy! This is all part of the work our team puts in to provide our students with the spaces they need to study, as well as relax & decompress.

⭐Meet the Staff ⭐

We thought it might be useful for you to 'virtually' meet some of the key staff who your children may come across or who are important people to know when they start with us in September.

Next up is our Student Support Manager, Mrs Round 👩‍🏫
✔️ Member of Staff at The Grange School for 24 years! ⏲️
✔️ Deputy Safeguarding Lead 👨‍🏫
✔️Based in Stapleton House (a separate building within the school grounds) - a place to go when students need some support from a non-teaching, specialist member of staff 🤗
✔️ Mrs Round's team consists of Miss Pomery (Deputy Safeguarding Lead and Student Welfare Support Assistant), Mrs Rousell (student welfare support assistant), Mrs Canvin (student mentor) and Mr Wingrove (Behaviour Mentor) 👋
✔️ Mrs Round's team offers transition support as well as 1-1 mentoring 🙂
✔️ Students can visit Stapleton House & the inclusion room during break and lunchtime as well as get in touch via the student support email address 💌

Mrs Round has been attending her own transition visits to our partner schools to meet with their Safeguarding Leads to make sure all important information is shared 🙂

⭐Meet the Staff ⭐

We thought it might be useful for you to 'virtually' meet some of the key staff who your children may come across or who are important people to know when they start with us in September.

Next up is our Deputy Headteacher, Mr Golding 👨‍🏫
✔️ Deputy Headteacher at The Grange School since 2018 ⏲️
✔️ In charge of all things pastoral i.e. behaviour, attendance and safeguarding 👨‍🏫
✔️Nationality = Welsh 🌻 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
✔️ Teaching in Buckinghamshire since 1997 ⏲️
✔️ Likely to be found in his office located in the English Corridor and gets his steps up by striding the corridors throughout the day 🚶
✔️ Design & Technology Teacher specialising in Construction - loves 'making stuff' 🔨
✔️ Also known as 'The Viking' and THE BFG 😄

Mr Golding met the Year 6's in their assemblies on the transition days in July but looks forward to seeing all our new Year 7's joining in September 🙂

⭐Meet the Staff ⭐

We thought it might be useful for you to 'virtually' meet some of the key staff who your children may come across or who are important people to know when they start with us in September.

So here goes... first up is out Headteacher, Mr Murray 👨‍🏫
✔️ Headteacher at The Grange School for 18 years ⏲️
✔️ Nationality = Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
✔️ Trained as a PE teacher but is no longer a classroom teacher 👨‍🏫
✔️ Likely to be found in his office located in the Food Technology Corridor 🍔
✔️ In assemblies every morning, which he describes as meeting and greeting the students, the best part of his day 👋
✔️ Has a glamorous assistant called 'Fudge' who gives the best cuddles when you need them! 🧸

Mr Murray accompanied the top 6 primary schools on transition visits this year and has therefore met the majority of the new year group but looking forward to seeing all our new Year 7's in September 🙂

Another school year has drawn to a close! Find out what we've been up to over the last half-term in the latest issue of The Grange Gazette! Available now on our website! https://ow.ly/fxhb50SFRYk

Good Morning... we thought we would share this post onto this page for our new parents as this could be your children in 12 months from now. Time flies...⏲️

Last week, we invited staff from our top 3 biggest partner schools - Turnfurlong Junior, William Harding and Bedgrove to visit our Year 7 students, 1 year on at our 'Coffee, Cake and Catch Up Afternoon ☕

We had over 60 Year 7 students attend together with 13 members of staff from our local primary schools as well as Grange School staff 🏫

The Year 7 students were incredibly excited to see their previous Year 6 teachers and Headteachers and enjoyed reminiscing and sharing how they are getting on in their secondary school 🙂

Thank you to the staff at Turnfurlong, William Harding and Bedgrove for popping by and grabbing a Coffee and Cake with us 🍰

Today is National ‘Be a Kid again Day’ 👦 👧

So to celebrate, here are our Heads of Year 7 - Mr Walsh & Mr Khan being kids again with 240 x Year 6s for the afternoon on last weeks transition day 🕺

The highlight of the day 🥰

Just 1 week to go until our Friends of the Grange School - Aylesbury Pre-Loved Uniform Sale! Join us in the school hall from 2pm next Friday, July 12th to pick up a bargain for September! https://ow.ly/R9Tn50SvJ4a

What a wonderful two days getting to know your fantastic children! 🥰 We hope they’ve had a really positive experience!

Our new students have had lots of opportunities to meet our friendly team ☺️ and try out some lessons, get to know new faces and forge friendships 🙋‍♂️🙋🏼‍♀️ in their form groups and find their way around and feel more familiar with their new environment. We hope they have returned home happy and confident about joining us in September! 💙🏫💛

Do feel free to drop us any comments below about their experiences from the two days of transition ⬇️

We can’t wait to welcome them all back after the Summer break ☀️

Parents Evening Tonight Details:
⭐️ Arrival from 5.40pm
⭐️ Start time is 6pm
⭐️ Limited parking available in school
⭐️ Finish time of 7.15pm
⭐️ Uniform shop will be in the canteen
⭐️ Bucks Mental Health Support Team will be available
⭐️ SENDCO available
⭐️ Meet the form tutors as well as members of the SLT

See you there 😊

📣Transition Days start TOMORROW ! 📣

Parents have been emailed their child’s form group 👀

Final Details ahead of Tuesday 2nd July & Wednesday 3rd July:
- Arrival between 8.40 and 8.50am. Registers will be taken at 8.50am on the front grass area ready for an assembly at 9am ⏰
- Need to bring a packed lunch, snacks and plenty of water 🥛
- Need to bring a pencil case with basic stationary 📏
- Need to bring a pair of trainers on 2nd July 👟
- Children should be dressed in Primary School Uniforms 🎓
- Children will finish at 2.30pm and leave through the main reception 🏫
- If children are walking home with siblings, they should meet them in the main hall 👨 👩
- If children's uniform and belongings can be named, that would be appreciated 😉

Any other questions, please ask away in the comments below 👇
1 sleep to go... 😬

And that’s a wrap for this year’s transition visits 😮‍💨

Miss Curtis visited our last partner school Thomas Hickman this week to meet our last lovely little newbie ☺️

Transition days are next week - Tuesday 2nd July & Wednesday 3rd July 2024 🗓️
Details have been emailed to all parents/carers or scroll down to a previous post for key details 👇

Keep an eye on your inboxes on Monday 1st July to find out your child’s form group ahead of the transition days 👀

Any questions, please drop a comment below 👇

📍 Our penultimate transition visit completed this morning at Quainton Church of England Combined School 🏫

1 lovely lady looking forward to starting at The Grange after a visit from Miss Curtis this hot morning ☀️ 🥵

Last visit of the year is… Thomas Hickman School tomorrow morning 🏫

📣Transition Days are Next Week! 📣

You will find out your child's form group via email on Monday 1st July 2024

Final Details ahead of Tuesday 2nd July & Wednesday 3rd July:
- Arrival between 8.40 and 8.50am. Registers will be taken at 8.50am on the front grass area ready for an assembly at 9am ⏰
- Need to bring a packed lunch, snacks and plenty of water 🥛
- Need to bring a pencil case with basic stationary 📏
- Need to bring a pair of trainers on 2nd July 👟
- Children should be dressed in Primary School Uniforms 🎓
- Children will finish at 2.30pm and leave through the main reception 🏫
- If children are walking home with siblings, they should meet them in the main hall 👨 👩
- If children's uniform and belongings can be named, that would be appreciated 😉

Any other questions, please ask away in the comments below 👇
1 week to go... 😬

📍 The Final ‘Big’ visit of the year - Broughton Junior School 🏫

Thank to the teachers and 16 lovely children for having us today. Mr Murray & Miss Glenister enjoyed chatting to you all and seeing the school chicken 🐔. We will see you all again next week.

Next stop… Quainton Church of England School 🏫

📍 Longwick Church of England Combined School 🏫

Miss Glenister met a lovely boy who is already excited and looking forward to coming to next week’s transition days 😊
Another one making the move up to secondary school solo from his school but no worries at all!

Next stop… Broughton Junior School this afternoon 🕰️

To close last week, Miss Curtis visited Weston Turville Church of England School on Thursday to meet a lovely young man who will be joining The Grange in September.

Like many other children, he is the only one coming to The Grange so certainly will not be alone when the time comes.

Next stop... 🏫 Longwick Church of England Combined School this morning 🌞

Another week of visits complete - just 3 more to go next week until the two transition days 🌟

All parents/carers have been sent an email with the details regarding the transition days on 2nd and 3rd July 2024. If you have not received this, please email us at [email protected] 💻

If you have any further questions regarding the transition days, please feel free to drop a comment below 👇

📍 Ashmead Combined School 🏫

Miss Glenister, Mr Murray & Miss Curtis visited 15 children this morning at the lovely Ashmead School. They said they felt much less nervous after chatting to us which makes our visits worthwhile 😊 Thank to the staff for having us over.

📍 Next stop this afternoon for Miss Curtis is Weston Turville Church of England School 🏫

📍 Bedgrove Junior School - thank you so much for having us for over 2 hours today!

Miss Glenister, Miss Curtis & Mr Murray visited over 40 children this morning who will be joining us next year to start their secondary school journey with us 🛣️

What a lovely group of children they were with lots of questions and amazing listening skills 👂 and great manners ❤️

We look forward to seeing you all again in 2nd July.

📍 next stop… Ashmead Combined School tomorrow morning ⏰

📍 To close the second week of transition visits, Miss Glenister visited 9 children at Elmhurst on Friday afternoon 🏫

Lots of questions but all so polite, great listeners and so respectful to each other. Looking forward to them joining The Grange.

Just over 2 weeks to transition days 😊

📍 Next stop… Bedgrove on 19th June 🗓️

Yesterday Miss Glenister visited Stoke Mandeville Combined School to visit 5 lovely children and their teacher.

All 5 of them had already planned their journey in how they were all going to meet each other and walk to The Grange on the transition days 🥹

Officially over half way through our visits now 😮‍💨

📍 next stop… Elmhurst School this afternoon ⏰

Another Transition Visit has been confirmed and booked into Miss Glenister's Diary:

🏫 Stoke Mandeville Combined School - Thursday 13th June

We are now over half way through our transition visits for this new cohort 📔

📍 This morning, Mr Murray & Miss Glenister met 6 delightful children at St Edward’s Catholic Junior School 🏫 They were very excited!

Looking forward to them joining us in just a few weeks for the transition days.

Next stop on the tour is Stoke Mandeville Combined School on Thursday 13th June 🗓️