Stantonbury Campus

Stantonbury Campus is a secondary foundation school located in north Milton Keynes, England, established in 1974. It is the second largest secondary comprehensive school in the United Kingdom with more than 2, 100 school students aged 11–18 (Years 7-13 / US Grades 6-12). It is built as part of a community site, including shared facilities including a leisure centre, theatre, health centre and church. Originally established as two schools, Bridgewater Hall and Brindley Hall. During the late 1980s, the schools split into four halls plus a shared sixth form, and eventually merged into one school. The campus held Arts College status as its specialism under the now discontinued specialist schools programme. EthosThe concept for the school developed in the early 1970s with Geoff Cooksey appointed by Buckinghamshire County Council in 1971 where he worked with Tim Brighouse to create the first new secondary school of Milton Keynes. When the school opened in 1974, it introduced a first name policy which means students call staff by their first name rather than the normal convention of using the teacher's surname used in other schools. Stantonbury Campus was the first secondary school in the country to not have a uniform, but 38 years later the school introduced a uniform for years 7-9 for the September 2012 term following pressure from governors and from Ofsted and growing discipline issues.

Stantonbury Campus is a secondary foundation school located in north Milton Keynes, England, established in 1974. It is the second largest secondary comprehensive school in the United Kingdom with more than 2, 100 school students aged 11–18 (Years 7-13 / US Grades 6-12). It is built as part of a community site, including shared facilities including a leisure centre, theatre, health centre and church. Originally established as two schools, Bridgewater Hall and Brindley Hall. During the late 1980s, the schools split into four halls plus a shared sixth form, and eventually merged into one school. The campus held Arts College status as its specialism under the now discontinued specialist schools programme. EthosThe concept for the school developed in the early 1970s with Geoff Cooksey appointed by Buckinghamshire County Council in 1971 where he worked with Tim Brighouse to create the first new secondary school of Milton Keynes. When the school opened in 1974, it introduced a first name policy which means students call staff by their first name rather than the normal convention of using the teacher's surname used in other schools. Stantonbury Campus was the first secondary school in the country to not have a uniform, but 38 years later the school introduced a uniform for years 7-9 for the September 2012 term following pressure from governors and from Ofsted and growing discipline issues.