Facilities
The school is situated on Oxford Road in Aylesbury, sharing a large site adjacent to Aylesbury College.
The school has a modern performing arts building, complete with theatre, music practice rooms and a recording studio. It also has a fully equipped, modern library, which contains computers, internet access, and multimedia resources, as well as the usual books, newspapers and periodicals.
The school has well equipped computer rooms, two of which are specialised for technology and performing arts departments, laptops available for departmental use, and a further suite of computers specifically for sixth form study. The whole school site has wifi access.
The school is fully DDA compliant and all areas are accessible for students with disabilities via lifts and ramps.
Significant improvements to accommodation have taken place in recent years, most recent building, named the Glover in memory of a former Chair of Governors, houses classroom for Modern Foreign Languages and Social Sciences, plus contains a large study are for Sixth Form students (G2), including computer facilities. Linked to this building is a new courtyard area containing outdoor picnic benches, which being adjacent to the canteen provides an external area where students can lunch.
The school has a large sports field which is used for football, rugby, hockey, cricket and athletics plus five tennis courts which are also used for netball. A new sports hall was given planning permission in 2006 but was not built as the LEA had its funding cut for new buildings however this is now a major project for the school to complete in order to complement the existing gym.
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