Burnham Upper School
Encyclopedia
Burnham Upper School is a co-educational secondary school in Burnham
, Buckinghamshire
. It is a community school, which takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 18. The school has approximately 740 pupils.
Sports College
.
In February 2007 an Ofsted
inspection judged the school to be "satisfactory" and recommended that it be placed on special measures. However, a follow up inspection in December 2008 judged the school to be "satisfactory" and no longer in need of special measures.
As of March 2011 it was still rated good by OFSTED.
masts
. Contracts between Buckinghamshire County Council and various mobile phone operators generate an income of £145,000 per annum, of which about £59,000 comes from contracts for masts that are installed in schools.
Burnham, Buckinghamshire
Burnham is a village and civil parish that lies north of the River Thames in the South Bucks District of Buckinghamshire, and sits on the border with Berkshire, between the towns of Maidenhead and Slough. It is served by Burnham railway station in the west of Slough on the main line between London...
, Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....
. It is a community school, which takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 18. The school has approximately 740 pupils.
Accreditation
In September 2005 the school was designated by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) as a specialistSpecialist school
The specialist schools programme was a UK government initiative which encouraged secondary schools in England to specialise in certain areas of the curriculum to boost achievement. The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust was responsible for the delivery of the programme...
Sports College
Sports College
Sports Colleges were introduced in 1997 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, PE, sports and dance. Schools that successfully apply to the Specialist Schools Trust and become Sports...
.
In February 2007 an Ofsted
Office for Standards in Education
The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills is the non-ministerial government department of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools In England ....
inspection judged the school to be "satisfactory" and recommended that it be placed on special measures. However, a follow up inspection in December 2008 judged the school to be "satisfactory" and no longer in need of special measures.
As of March 2011 it was still rated good by OFSTED.
Phone mast
Burnham Upper School is one of several Buckinghamshire schools which host mobile phoneMobile phone
A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...
masts
Cell site
A cell site is a term used to describe a site where antennas and electronic communications equipment are placed, usually on a radio mast, tower or other high place, to create a cell in a cellular network...
. Contracts between Buckinghamshire County Council and various mobile phone operators generate an income of £145,000 per annum, of which about £59,000 comes from contracts for masts that are installed in schools.