Long Crendon School A GSG School
- Long Crendon School
Chilton Road
Long Crendon
Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire
HP18 9BZ - Head: Gareth Owens
- T 01844 208225
- F 01844 208 225
- E [email protected]
- W www.longcrendon.bucks.sch.uk/
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 4 to 11.
- Read about the best schools in Buckinghamshire
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Buckinghamshire
- Pupils: 209
- Religion: Does not apply
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Requires improvement 1
- Early years provision Outstanding 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Requires improvement 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Requires improvement 1
- 1 Full inspection 28th June 2022
- Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 29th September 2008
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Staggering commitment to outdoor learning, which has had a direct impact on academic results. There’s a wooden outdoor learning lodge, plus wet weather gear for the whole school, and the school has also formed a strong link with a neighbouring teaching farm, where the children spend time looking after animals, collecting produce and cooking the food they harvest. This a true village school with a friendly, values-driven community that families move to the area for – and they’re not disappointed. The dedicated teaching staff are focused on the whole child, rather than ...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since May 2024, Gareth Owens. He worked his way up in primary schools around Rochdale, Crewe, Stoke-on-Trent and Buckinghamshire, as classroom volunteer, LSA, unqualified teacher, qualified teacher, KS 2 leader, until he was appointed deputy head at Long Crendon in 2022. He has a master’s in education, focusing on educational leadership and management and alternate approaches to challenging behaviour and is pursuing a doctoral qualification at Oxford Brookes, with a research focus on the wellbeing of headteachers in rural primary schools.
Entrance
Admission by means of the local authority criteria – which means that, in order of priority, it’s looked after children, SEND, living as in catchment and siblings of children already at the school. In practice, that means the vast majority of families live in the village, no more than half-a-mile away and many year...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
Children get into the school from here:
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most years
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infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
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