Bucklers Mead
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Bucklers Mead Community School is a secondary school
and specialist Technology College
in Yeovil
, Somerset
, England. It has 985 students between the ages of 11 and 16.
The school offers a range of subjects including art, beliefs and values, citizenship, drama, geography, history, mathematics, modern foreign languages, music, physical education and technology.
In August 2011, the school became an academy.
into five year groups ranging from 7 through to 11. Each year group contains around 197 students, separated into six groups of around 30 students called tutor groups. Each tutor group has a form tutor. Tutor groups meet twice a day for registration, once in the morning at the very beginning of the school day, 8:30, and once again after the school lunch, 1:30. Every year group is led by a year coordinator.
During Year 11 students are given the opportunity to become prefects; there are two kinds of prefects along with a head boy and girl.
The first make up year prefects, four are given to each year group to assist the Year Coordinator. Along with these four is the second type of prefect, the senior prefect; these are in charge of a prefect team.
Students from each year can talk to their year prefects for help and assistance at almost any time.
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
and specialist Technology College
Technology College
Technology College is a term used in the United Kingdom for a secondary specialist school that focuses on design and technology, mathematics and science. These were the first type of specialist schools, beginning in 1994. In 2008 there were 598 Technology Colleges in England, of which 12 also...
in Yeovil
Yeovil
Yeovil is a town and civil parish in south Somerset, England. The parish had a population of 27,949 at the 2001 census, although the wider urban area had a population of 42,140...
, Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
, England. It has 985 students between the ages of 11 and 16.
The school offers a range of subjects including art, beliefs and values, citizenship, drama, geography, history, mathematics, modern foreign languages, music, physical education and technology.
In August 2011, the school became an academy.
Year groups
The school is split like most other secondary schools in EnglandEngland
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
into five year groups ranging from 7 through to 11. Each year group contains around 197 students, separated into six groups of around 30 students called tutor groups. Each tutor group has a form tutor. Tutor groups meet twice a day for registration, once in the morning at the very beginning of the school day, 8:30, and once again after the school lunch, 1:30. Every year group is led by a year coordinator.
During Year 11 students are given the opportunity to become prefects; there are two kinds of prefects along with a head boy and girl.
The first make up year prefects, four are given to each year group to assist the Year Coordinator. Along with these four is the second type of prefect, the senior prefect; these are in charge of a prefect team.
Students from each year can talk to their year prefects for help and assistance at almost any time.