Junior Years - Teaching & Learning

Buckswood is an academic community with learning at the core of all that we do. Small class sizes within a small school environment ensure that we are able to educate each child with a level of personal care and attention that few schools or colleges can match.

We push all our students to achieve their full potential; we push students to excel and to appreciate that industry is inevitably the foundation of success at any level.

We welcome regular contact with all parents in addition to the Consultation Evenings held every term, and parents also receive at least two formal assessment sheets per term plus hand-written reports for each subject.

Our Access Time system gives students an open invitation to visit teachers in their subject classrooms after school each evening, thereby providing both help and extension– just that little bit of extra, personal advice can make all the difference.

Prep (homework) is done at school under the supervision of Form Tutors. The benefit of all this is highlighted in our recent GCSE, GCE & Cambridge International examination results – not the last word in success, but a barometer nonetheless.

We offer a wide-ranging and varied curriculum throughout the lower years allowing students to discover a talent in everything from public speaking to cooking chocolate brownies, and from rudimentary Mandarin to web design.

The essence of Buckswood, its spirit of internationalism, courses through the veins of its academic programme at all times offering a cultural vibrancy as an added learning dimension.

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Mr. S.H. Cassidy, Head of Junior School.

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An example of a true Buckswood child - a story that warms my heart.

It is a story about a Buckswood child, a young man in a cross-country match. He was running well but came across a competitor from another school who was suffering from an asthma attack along the way. In stopping to help the other boy who had lost his inhaler and was in some distress, our young hero sacrificed any chance of winning the race. He knelt down and helped his fellow runner to his feet and even though he had never met him before, put his arm around the boy¹s shoulders and led him to a steward further along the course. Despite the fact that many competitors from a host of other schools had run past the sick boy without recognizing his predicament, it was a Buckswood Boy who put the care and well being of another child before his own interests. This is how I would like all Buckswood pupils to be - as a visiting lecturer said, thoughtful, courteous and compassionate. Thank you, Andrew Orr.