Bushey Hall School

Infobox UK school
name = Bushey Hall School

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head = Graham Yapp
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street = London Road
city = Bushey
county = Hertfordshire
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postcode = WD23 3AA
phone = 020 8950 9502
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LEA = Hertfordshire County Council
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enrollment = 820
gender = Mixed
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Bushey Hall School is a foundation secondary school in Bushey, Hertfordshire, UK. The current head teacher is Graham Yapp, who started as a new member of staff in the school in September 2007. [http://www.busheyhall.herts.sch.uk/about_school/heads_message.html Head's Message] , Bushey Hall School.]

History

Campus

The school is located on the site of the former Bushey Manor. [cite book
title = A History of the County of Hertford: volume 2
series = Victoria County History
author = William Page (ed.)
date = 1908
chapter = Bushey
chapterurl = http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=43267
pages = pp179-186
url = http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=305
accessdate = 2008-06-20
quote = A little to the west of the church on the north side of High Street is the Manor House, a large red brick building with a slated roof, the property of General Forestier-Walker.] The buildings were erected in 1928 to house the Royal Masonic School for Boys junior school, which opened in the following year.The school was designed to house 400 boarders in a line of four buildings connected by a covered walkway, across the quadrangle from the main building.The other buildings on the quadrangle were the dining hall (on the east side) and the teaching block (west). [cite book
author = G. Montague Hall
title = A History of Bushey
publisher = Bournehall Press | location = Bushey | year = 1938] [cite book
title = Bushey, Hertfordshire: Official Guide
publisher = Bournehall Press | location = Bushey | year = 1956] [cite web
url= http://www.busheyhall.herts.sch.uk/about_school/index.html
title= About the School
accessdate= 2008-06-20
author= Bushey Hall School]

Due to falling rolls, the junior school closed in 1970.The site was then home to Grange Park School (a secondary school for boys) until it closed in 1987, when Bushey Hall School moved to the site. [cite book
title = The Book of Watford: A portrait of our town c1800–1987
author = Bob Nunn
publisher = Pageprint | location = Watford | year = 1987
pages = p318]

chool

Bushey Hall School was originallywhen located on Bushey Hall Road.Both road and school were named after the original Bushey Hall, which was located just to the north on Aldenham Road, and is now the site of a leisure centre and golf course. [cite book
title = A History of the County of Hertford: volume 2
series = Victoria County History
author = William Page (ed.)
date = 1908
chapter = Bushey
chapterurl = http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=43267
pages = pp179-186
url = http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=305
accessdate = 2008-06-20
quote = Bushey Hall was in 1882 converted into a hydropathic establishment and licensed hotel, in the grounds of which are some well-known golf links.]

The school relocated to the former Grange Park campus in the late 1980s.whenA housing estate and caravan site now occupy the Bushey Hall Road site.

The school attained grant maintained status in the mid-1990s, converting to a foundation school when grant maintained status was abolished in 1999.Since to the introduction of partial selection in several other schools in southwest Hertfordshire in mid-1990s, the school's intake has been skewed toward the lower end of the ability range. [cite web
url= http://www.schoolsadjudicator.gov.uk/upload/ADA000046_-_Bushey_Hall.doc
title= Determination
accessdate= 2008-06-20
author= Professor David J Newton, Schools Adjudicator
date= 1999-09-17
format= MS Word
publisher= Office of the Schools Adjudicator] Results at the school have been poor for several years and the school was placed in special measures in April 2008 following an Ofsted inspection in March 2008.cite web
url= http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/cgi-bin/performancetables/school_07.pl?No=9195409&Mode=Z&Type=SC&Phase=k&Year=07&Base=a&Num=919
title= Achievement and attainment tables
accessdate= 2008-06-20
author= Department for Children, Schools and Families
publisher= Department for Children, Schools and Families] [cite web
title=School "among weakest in country"
date= 2008-04-29
work=Watford Observer
author=Filip Hnizdo
url=http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/2233110.school_among_weakest_in_country/
accessdate=2008-06-20] cite web
url= http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/portal/site/Internet/menuitem.7c7b38b14d870c7bb1890a01637046a0/?event=getReport&urn=117581&inspectionNumber=312660&providerCategoryID=8192&fileName=\\school\\117\\s5_117581_20080502.xml
title= Inspection Report
accessdate= 2008-06-20
author= David Jones HMI
year= 2008
month= March
publisher= Office for Standards in Education] As part of its improvement measures it is seeking academy status. [cite web
url= http://jobs.tes.co.uk/job.aspx?jobId=503968
title= Science Teacher, job ad
accessdate= 2008-06-20
work= Times Educational Supplement
year= 2008
month= May] [cite web
url= http://www.teachinherts.com/Recruitment/vacancy/vacancydetails.aspx?VacancyId=13209
title= Drama Teacher, job ad
accessdate= 2008-06-20
author= Hertfordshire County Council
year= 2008
month= May]

Community Involvement

Students from Bushey Hall and Bushey Meads School appeared as extras in "My Dad's the Prime Minister". The school provides a venue for community activities such as the Bushey Festival [ [http://www.festival.bushey.org.uk/ Bushey Festival] ] and the Bushey Symphony Orchestra. [ [http://www.busheysymphony.org.uk Bushey Symphony Orchestra] ] The school also participated in the Watford 10k Fun Run. [ [http://www.watford10k.org.uk/?p=18 Watford 10k Fun Run] ]

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