Aylesbury High School (AHS) was founded in 1959, in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, when the previously co-educational Aylesbury Grammar School (founded 1598) split to become two single-sex grammar schools. The two institutions remain on adjacent sites. The school takes its pupils from a wide area as far from Aylesbury as Oxford and Milton Keynes, as admissions are determined by the Eleven plus. The current headmaster is Alan Rosen.
The school is colloquially referred to by locals as "Aylesbury Girls'" and by the students as "the High" or "AHS".
Admissions
The school is a selective state-funded grammar school, and as such entry requirements are dictated by the Eleven plus, although several students are admitted on appeal to Buckinghamshire County Council. In the fairly unusual event of free places, the school will accept pupils in Year 8 upon success in the Twelve plus, and later upon reasonable evidence that prospective pupils are academically capable. A large number of pupils are also admitted in the Sixth Form from both local state and independent schools, though impressive GCSE results are required and competition for these places is high.
A train station, railway station, railroad station, or depot (see below) is a railway facility where trains regularly stop to load or unload passengers or freight.
It generally consists of at least one track-side platform and a station building (depot) providing such ancillary services as ticket sales and waiting rooms. If a station is on a single-track line, it often has a passing loop to facilitate traffic movements. The smallest stations are most often referred to as "stops" or, in some parts of the world, as "halts" (flag stops).
Stations may be at ground level, underground, or elevated. Connections may be available to intersecting rail lines or other transport modes such as buses, trams or other rapid transit systems.
Terminology
In the United States, the most common term in contemporary usage is train station. Railway station and railroad station are less frequent; also, American usage makes a distinction between the terms railroad and railway.
In Britain and other Commonwealth countries, traditional usage favours railway station or simply station, even though train station, which is often perceived as an Americanism, is now about as common as railway station in writing; railroad station is not used, railroad being obsolete there. In British usage, the word station is commonly understood to mean a railway station unless otherwise qualified.
Aylesbury/ˈeɪəlzbri/ is the county town of Buckinghamshire, England. In 2011, it had a population of 58,740.
History
The town name is of Old English origin. Its first recorded name Æglesburgh is thought to mean "Fort of Ægel", though who Ægel was is not recorded. Since earliest records there have been 57variations of the name.
Excavations in the town centre in 1985 found an Iron Agehill fort dating from the early 4th century BC. Aylesbury was one of the strongholds of the ancient Britons, from whom it was taken in the year 571 by Cutwulph, brother of Ceawlin, King of the West Saxons; and had a fortress or castle "of some importance, from which circumstance probably it derives its Saxon appellation".
Aylesbury was a major market town in Anglo-Saxon times, the burial place of Saint Osyth, whose shrine attracted pilgrims. The Early English parish church of St. Mary (which has many later additions) has a crypt beneath. Once thought to be Anglo-Saxon, it is now recognised as being of the same period as the medieval chapel above. At the Norman conquest, the king took the manor of Aylesbury for himself, and it is listed as a royal manor in the Domesday Book, 1086. Some lands here were granted by William the Conqueror to citizens upon the extraordinary tenure that the owners should provide straw for the monarch's bed, sweet herbs for his chamber and two green geese and three eels for his table, whenever he should visit Aylesbury.
There has been a prison or gaol of some description in Aylesbury since 1810. The current prison is of early Victorian design and has been on its present site since 1847 following extensive public building in the area that also included the workhouse (now the Tindal Centre). Since construction, it has gone through a variety of changes, starting as a county gaol, then became an adult women's prison in 1890, changing to a girls' borstal in the 1930s, and between 1959-1961 was an adult male prison, after which it became a male YOI, and since 1989 has held only male long term prisoners.
In 1998 Aylesbury Prison was criticised after an inspection report highlighted its poor health regime (the jail saw the rapid turnover of five senior medical officers in two years). The report opened up a wider debate about the pay of medical staff in UK prisons compared to those in the NHS.
Until at least the time of the Domesday Survey in 1086 there were 18 hundreds in Buckinghamshire. It has been suggested however that neighbouring hundreds had already become more closely associated in the 11th century so that by the end of the 14th century the original or ancient hundreds had been consolidated into 8 larger hundreds. Aylesbury became the name of the hundred formed from the combined 11th century hundreds of Aylesbury, Risborough and Stone although these original names still persisted in official records until at least the early part of the 17th century. The court leet for Aylesbury hundred was located at Aylesbury.
Parishes and hamlets
Aylesbury hundred comprised the following ancient parishes and hamlets, (formerly medievalvills), allocated to their respective 13th century hundred:
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Wen don't own the song and all the legal stuff to the owners, blah blah.
For Year 11's last day this was performed in our school canteen to celebrate leaving school :) The first 3 minutes are just cheering and stuff. Enjoy :)
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We went to Aylesbury High School to find out how they are using authentic language videos with their French, Spanish and German GCSE classes.
Many thanks to Ew...
We went to Aylesbury High School to find out how they are using authentic language videos with their French, Spanish and German GCSE classes.
Many thanks to Ewen Baird and his class for sharing their time and thoughts.
Feeling inspired? Email [email protected] to organise your free trial!
We went to Aylesbury High School to find out how they are using authentic language videos with their French, Spanish and German GCSE classes.
Many thanks to Ewen Baird and his class for sharing their time and thoughts.
Feeling inspired? Email [email protected] to organise your free trial!
Wen don't own the song and all the legal stuff to the owners, blah blah.
For Year 11's last day this was performed in our school canteen to celebrate leaving s...
Wen don't own the song and all the legal stuff to the owners, blah blah.
For Year 11's last day this was performed in our school canteen to celebrate leaving school :) The first 3 minutes are just cheering and stuff. Enjoy :)
Wen don't own the song and all the legal stuff to the owners, blah blah.
For Year 11's last day this was performed in our school canteen to celebrate leaving school :) The first 3 minutes are just cheering and stuff. Enjoy :)
Here is a TimeLapse of Aylesbury Grammar School
Select 1080p HD for best quality!
To view image please follow: http://www.tempest-groups.co.uk/albums?collec...
Here is a TimeLapse of Aylesbury Grammar School
Select 1080p HD for best quality!
To view image please follow: http://www.tempest-groups.co.uk/albums?collectionid=1184
If you are interested in this service please get in contact with us:
Tempest Photography:
http://www.htempest.co.uk/
01736 752411
Jolt Media:
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01736 751554
Here is a TimeLapse of Aylesbury Grammar School
Select 1080p HD for best quality!
To view image please follow: http://www.tempest-groups.co.uk/albums?collectionid=1184
If you are interested in this service please get in contact with us:
Tempest Photography:
http://www.htempest.co.uk/
01736 752411
Jolt Media:
http://www.jolt-media.co.uk/
01736 751554
We went to Aylesbury High School to find out how they are using authentic language videos with their French, Spanish and German GCSE classes.
Many thanks to Ewen Baird and his class for sharing their time and thoughts.
Feeling inspired? Email [email protected] to organise your free trial!
Wen don't own the song and all the legal stuff to the owners, blah blah.
For Year 11's last day this was performed in our school canteen to celebrate leaving school :) The first 3 minutes are just cheering and stuff. Enjoy :)
Here is a TimeLapse of Aylesbury Grammar School
Select 1080p HD for best quality!
To view image please follow: http://www.tempest-groups.co.uk/albums?collectionid=1184
If you are interested in this service please get in contact with us:
Tempest Photography:
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01736 752411
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Walking through the town where you live And I dream of another day Daylight failing over the railings Past your window As another dream in the railway station You're too late You're gonna have to wait all day now 'Cause no one else will help you Follow me to the seaside It's fine for a daydream They just let you down They just let you down Summer's gone incompletely You're no one, you can disappear If you don't try now If you don't try again On a sunny day I think It gets hard to remember They won't let you down They won't let you down They won't let you down Seen something you've done Far in a distance You're waiting and watching And don't think it's helping They won't let you down They won't let you down