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To
see reports, pictures and details of the recent various fund
raising events that have taken place, please click on the event
below.
PEPA Day Red Kite Ramble Marlow Rotary Club Walk
London 10k Run
Parents Evening, 8th February 4:00-7:00pm
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The next parents evening will be on Wednesday
February 8th where you can meet the class teachers, Speech and
Language Therapists, governors and other professionals.
Each appointment is 30 minutes (so last
appointment time is 6:30pm).
Please contact the office on 01494 812139 to
book your appointment. |
Thanks For The Amazing Support
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We would like to
thank John Lewis (High Wycombe branch) and Buckinghamshire New
University for their recent and on-going help and donations.
As well as providing
items for prizes, especially for the Card competition last year,
and lots of Art material for the ASD department, John Lewis and will
soon put a link on their website to show our
students work.
Bucks New University
have also been very by cutting wood that is used by students in the Design & Technology and
Art studies. We thank both organisations most sincerely. |
MAD Bag Thanks
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Post 16 would like
to thank all the students, families and staff who have supported
this Charity campaign to date. We visit the Wycombe Homeless
Connection’s offices most weeks to drop off your generous donations
and the staff and guests there are most grateful. Post 16 students
will continue to pass on any donations we receive in the coming
weeks and months. If you would like further information about our
chosen charity please go to
http://www.wyhoc.org.uk/
Many thanks |
Christmas Card Competition
School Production - Robina Hood
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Many thanks to all the visitors who came to
watch Robina Hood. The students gave two excellent performances and
absolutely enjoyed themselves and
we would like to thank everyone involved in performing and helping
put the production on.
Many thanks for the donations of raffle prizes
and in the collection bucket by visitors. To the lucky raffle
winners - congratulations. To everyone else - better luck next time.
A DVD of the performances will be available
early next year. |
2012 Horticulture Calendars For Sale
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Many thanks for all the Morrisons 'Lets Grow'
tokens - we have used them to get seeds and storage. With the
profits from the apple juice, all of which have been sold so thank
you all for buying, we have purchased some blackberry and
gooseberry bushes to make fruit smoothies from next Summer.
We have some professionally produced and
printed glossy 2012 calendars for sale. The full colour, A3 sheets
include action shots from each month last year of many of the
students in their horticulture studies as they have worked hard
preparing, growing and tending the flowers, fruits and vegetables.
The calendars are on sale for £6.50 each. To
order, please contact
philippa.worley@pennschool.co.uk
or complete and return the order form already sent home with
students. |
Care & Residential Awarded Outstanding Grade By Ofsted
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On October 4th to October 6th 2011 we had an Ofsted inspection of our boarding and care provision. We achieved an
outstanding grade across the board.
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Overall Effectiveness |
Outstanding |
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Outcomes for residential pupils
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Outstanding |
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Quality of residential provision and care |
Outstanding |
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Residential Pupils' Safety
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Outstanding |
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Leadership and Management of residential provision |
Outstanding |
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This is a fantastic achievement and follows on
from the outstanding grade awarded to the Post 16 department this
time last
year. Congratulations to all the students and staff involved.
A copy of the full report can be seen by
clicking
here (or from our Downloads page) or alternatively from the
Ofsted website directly by clicking
here.
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Penn Apple Juice - Sold Out
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Since returning to school last September the students
worked very hard in the school
orchard.
Between them they picked about 600 Kilos of
apples which were then taken to a pressing facility to be pressed
and bottled.
We have now sold out for this year, so thank
you to those who bought some - we hope you enjoyed it.
We keep our fingers crossed for a bumper crop
next year. |
Penn's Got Talent
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Congratulations to all those
who took part in Penn's Got Talent on Thursday 21st July.
There were over 20 acts of
singing, dancing, comedy, juggling and even football skills. The students were
excellent.
A DVD of the show is for
sale during the School play in December or via the order forms
already sent home with students. |
Post 16 Celebration Day, 19th July 2011
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Penn held our first Post 16
Prize Giving and Celebration on Thursday 19th July to celebrate all
the achievements of our Post 16 students.
We had a very special guest
to present the certificates and awards.
A PDF file with more details
and pictures from the day can be viewed/downloaded by clicking
here. |
Penn Students In The
Press 2011
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Each month the First News national newspaper,
a publication for and about students aged 7-14, prints a piece
written by a Penn student about themselves, their
special needs and how it affects their lives and how they manage them.
For the
Christmas edition the
author is Lucy. Read her story here.
You can read
all the previous stories.
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Sports Day, Thursday 14th July 2011
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The weather was great and
the students even greater. All the students took part and
competed in a variety of sporting events. There were some excellent
performances - 2012 watch out!
Congratulations to the relay
teams who beat the staff team. |
Exam Results 2011
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We have received the
results for our Years 10 & 11 who took their Welsh Board
(WJEC) qualifications in ICT, Maths, English, Humanities and DT.
Over 95% of all the results showed students being awarded
distinctions. We are very proud of
them and they deserve all their success
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DJ
Drops Into School
Click
here to read the story of the celebrity DJ who paid the
school a flying visit.
Summer Cake
Competition 2011
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Many of our students took part in our
Summer Cake contest.
Their brief was to make and decorate a cake by
themselves that showed 'Summer'.
The external Judge had a very difficult task to
choose 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in each of the age groups (Key Stage
3, Key Stage 4 and Post 16).
Many commendations were awarded for some
fantastic and colourful decorations.
The winners were Sam, Rory and Joe.
Congratulations to them and everyone who took
part.
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Welsh Board (WJEC) Art
GCSE Moderator Visit 2011
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The moderator came to look at the Art GCSE
work, presentations and portfolios created by the 5 students who
took the qualification; Nimrita, Paige, Jonathan P, Matthew N
and Imogen.
The moderator was thrilled with the students’
visually exciting display of art work which demonstrated
progressive art and thinking through its energy and volume.
The work was of a very high standard providing evidence that
students were taught by an experienced and skilful teacher,
Mrs Helen Brett.
The use of new media, ICT and photography met all
assessment criteria and is an excellent example of up to
date teaching in the 21st century.
Jonathan’s permission will sought by the examining
board to display his PowerPoint presentation on their web
site as an example of excellent use of ICT in Art and
Design. |
Further examples
of what the moderator saw are shown below.
OCR Nationals ICT
level 2
GCSE 2011
We have just received the fabulous news
that Nimrita, Jonathan P and Paige have been awarded passes and
merits for their Level 2 (A* to C) GCSE ICT work. They had to
use and demonstrate how ICT is used in real life within all
aspects of organisations by creating a company and using ICT to
to apply real world scenarios and tasks. This included having to
write, design and record a radio advertisement.
Congratulations to all three students on
their fine effort and excellent grades.
Penn Students Part Of World Record Breaking
Sign-a-long 2011
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Congratulations to all the
students, staff and parents who took part in Sign2Sing, the
successful World Record attempt on Wednesday 9th February at 2:40pm
for the largest number of people simultaneously signing and singing.
Special thanks to Mrs Edwards for organising our involvement.
All the hearing impaired and
hearing enabled participants practised really hard and in the
process they raised over £70 by participating for the charity. You
can watch a video of this by clicking
here. |
Hello
- 2011: The Year Of National Communication
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Hello
is
the National Year of Communication - a year-long campaign to increase
understanding of how important it is for young children and young people to
develop good communication skills.
Here at Penn school we
are actively supporting the campaign with the Speech and Language Therapy
team gearing up for a fun, activity-filled year. |
Further details of
month by month activities as part of lessons will be forthcoming
soon. In the meantime general purpose information about the campaign
can be found by clicking on the following websites.
Albert Hall Refrieze Project 2011
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The Royal Albert Hall
(RAH) is 140 years old this year. To commemorate this students from
Penn and other schools have submitted artwork to an RAH project to
create contemporary versions of the Victorian mosaic frieze that
circles the exterior of the building. Our students' work can be
viewed on the Refrieze website by clicking on the pages below.
Page 3 of Penn Students Work
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School Swimming Team Powers To Success
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Congratulations to
the Penn School Swimming Team who retained the overall Winners
Shield at the South Bucks Special Schools Sports Association (SBSSSA)
Annual Swimming Gala at Stoke Mandeville on January 24th |
As well as retaining
the overall winners title we first won in 2010, we had a number of
individual champions in both boys and girls senior and junior
events.
This was another
outstanding effort and we are looking forward to next year to see if
we can make it a hat-trick.
Latest
Fundraising
News
PEPA Day,
Saturday July 2nd 2011
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PEPA Day took place on Saturday 2nd July.
As usual the crowds ranged from current pupils to those who
were here in previous decades. This year we had a student
who was here during the 1940's.
In wonderful weather there were loads of events and
activities for everyone to enjoy and a fabulous time was had
by everyone.
The event was organised by the Friends Of Penn School and
as usual it went like clockwork.
We thank all those who helped organise the event, those
whose worked on the various stalls, everyone who attended,
and those who donated items for sale and/or prizes
(especially Joe Gleeson who once again donated the
fantastic sausages and burgers expertly cooked by the
Barbecue Team).
All funds raised will be used in projects to help the
students. |
Red Kite Ramble
Charity Walk For Penn, Sunday 26th June '11
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We are still working out the final amount,
but the Red Kite Ramble on Sunday 26th June was a great success.
In extremely hot weather there were many
ramblers who gave their time, effort, money and shoe leather to
raise funds for us.
We thank them very much for all their efforts
and look forward to next years Ramble.
You can still make a secure,
on-line donation by going go to :
http://www.justgiving.com/RedKiteRamble
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Rotary Club of Marlow
Fundraise For Penn (18th June 2011)
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Many thanks to the Rotary Club of Marlow
who organised a
Charity Walk & Prize Quiz to raise funds on our behalf.
The walk took place on Saturday 18th June
from Marlow to Cookham. The walkers raised over £400.
We thank The Marlow Rotary Club for
organising the walk and quiz and all the walkers for raising funds on our behalf.
A brief report can be found on the Bucks
Free Press Newspaper by clicking
here.
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Kids In Sport Donates
Equipment
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Kids In Sport, a High Wycombe based charity who enable
children to participate in sports that otherwise would be
unable to do so, bounded into Penn on January 21st 2011.
With them they brought a trampoline, baskeball hoops and a
host of other sporting equipment. |
We thank them most sincerely and appreciate the
donation because sport is an important part of our curriculum and
using the trampoline and the other activities we can now do is both
healthy and and excellent therapy for students.
Further information about the Kids In Sport
charity can be found by
clicking here.
The event was attended by the Bucks Free Press
newspaper and pictures and the written article from the on-line
edition can be read by
clicking here.
London 10k Run 2011
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Many thanks to all the runners and walkers who took part in the
London 10k run on July 10th. We hope that they have all recovered
from their exertions on our behalf to raise money for use on
resources and projects to support our students' learning.
Roll on 2012!. |
The
Foresters Donate To Penn Fireworks Night
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A huge thank you from all of
us at Penn to The Foresters.
They braved and battled
through freezing weather and the bitterly cold wind to join the school
assembly on Friday 3rd December bearing gifts to the value of £3000 to be
used for new laptops.
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For more pictures and
information from the day, Please
click here.
Horticulture "Grows"
Thanks To Lottery Funding
On Friday 28th January 2011 Fiona Dempsey, Head of South East Region
Big Lottery, and Stephen Baker MP, High Wycombe visited Penn School.
They were keen to observe and
discuss the progress of the Horticulture department since the
generous donation received last year. The school used the money to
donate a Poly Tunnel, staging and irrigation system, a shed,
traditional market barrow/display stands/cash register, raised beds,
water butts, a variety of tools, potting units, and gloves and
aprons for each student.
This Summer students aim to sell
their flowers and vegetables to staff, the local community, friends
and family using the market barrow and cash register which provides
opportunities for students to develop speaking and listening skills,
retail awareness and skills for working life and create valuable
links with the wider community.
Further details about our
horticultural aims as part of our vocation curriculum can be read by
clicking here.
The Bucks Free Press newspaper article and picture of the visit can
be read by
clicking here.
10th
Anniversary Celebration Ball
The Penn
School 10th Anniversary Celebration Ball took place at
The Bellhouse Hotel in Beaconsfield on the 9th October
2010. The evening was very well supported by post-16 pupils,
parents, staff and members of the local business community who
enjoyed a 3 course dinner, followed by an auction, raffle and
casino. Entertainment was provided by The Cool Beans and products
made by the post-16 were on sale. The school’s patron The Rt Hon
Dominic Grieve QC MP, gave a rousing pre-dinner speech and made
a presentation to our Head Teacher, Mary-Nest Richardson.
The
evening raised in excess of £10,000 which was a wonderful
achievement and these funds will help several school projects. A
huge thank you to all of you that attended or supported the event in
other ways, it is very much appreciated.
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