Stantonbury School is built on a greenfield site of over 200 hectares and students cannot help but be impressed by our specialist facilities and the opportunities offered by our professional theatre, sports centre and athletics stadium.
Our specialist facilities are designed to help the students feel at home in a large and diverse school:
- Separate faculty teaching areas for English, Maths, Science, Art and Design, Technology, Modern Foreign Languages and Humanities
- Dedicated Year Group bases
- Music Centre: featuring a recording and editing suite
- SEND and Inclusion: The Learning Curve support area
- Welcome Centre: to support EAL students and students joining the school mid-year
- The Wellbeing Centre: offering one-to-one tuition and counselling services.
- Outstanding sports facilities including athletics stadium, swimming pool, artificial grass pitch, tennis and badminton courts, gym and playing fields for outdoor sports
- Professional Theatre offering students opportunities to showcase their talent and experience world-class performances
- Library
- Sixth form Centre: dedicated area with its own facilities, conference room and study areas
- Several ICT suites
We are delighted to have secured a substantial government grant to develop exciting new facilities for STEM provision (Science, Technology, Engineering and mathematics), to be by 2020 and we are active participants in the Stantonbury Parish Neighbourhood Plan.
Stantonbury Leisure Centre
Stantonbury School offers magnificent indoor and outdoor sporting opportunities.
Outside areas include an artificial grass pitch, outdoor fields and tennis courts. We also have an athletics stadium with full track and field facilities – high jump, long jump, javelin, discus and hammer throw areas. These are also home to Marshall Milton Keynes Athletics Club – the former home club of Olympian Greg Rutherford.
Indoor areas include a seven court badminton sports hall which can be used for any team games such as volleyball, indoor football, basketball and more the hall can also be used for large events such as weddings and more, and a 25 metre swimming pool with a dedicated learner area.
Open to the public
Our leisure facilities are also open to the public and we offer membership packages that include the use of the pool, fully equipped gym featuring resistance and cardio machines and free weights, group exercise classes and access to the indoor and outdoor sporting facilities.
We also offer affordable swimming lessons and school holiday clubs for all children in the community.
For full details please see the Sports Centre website.
Stantonbury Theatre
Our theatre was the first in Milton Keynes and is a key public arts venue in the area, programming a variety of national touring small to middle scale productions. It is a perfect venue for performances of drama, music, dance, musical theatre and pantomime and is hired by many of the large community groups, dance schools, choirs, orchestras and other local organisations for their productions and showcases.
The theatre offers huge enrichment opportunities to our students who are able to showcase their impressive range of talents in our large scale musicals, music concerts, drama productions and dance shows.
Other opportunities for students include technical theatre training and for sixth form students the chance to be employed as theatre ushers.
For further information please go to the Theatre website.
Library
The Stantonbury School Library is located in the center of Turing, our newest building to date. It offers students full access to thousands of books, as well as a place to study, learn and read. It is also home to our Read-to-Succeed book venting machine, where students can spend reward tokens and receive a book that is theirs to keep.
Library opening times: 8:30 – 3:30 (4:30 for after-school activities) Monday to Friday
What the library offers:
- 11,000 books available to reserve and borrow.
- Books for a vast range of reading levels and interests.
- Reference books such as dictionaries and encyclopedias.
- Computer access available for research and homework.
- A mix of desks and comfortable seating to accommodate all study styles.
- Read-to-Succeed book vending machine.
- Destiny Discover – our library catalogue, viewable from anywhere.
School Librarian: Jesse Kent
The Wellbeing Centre
Positive wellbeing and mental health are essential for everyone but we recognise that at different points in their life, students may face barriers to learning which may prevent them from achieving their full potential. To help students to overcome these barriers, Stantonbury School employs dedicated support staff who specialise in Counselling & Wellbeing.
The Wellbeing Centre provides a number of additional support services and is open from 8:00am – 4:00pm Monday to Friday and during school holidays.
Wellbeing referrals can be made via Student Support Leaders or directly through the Wellbeing Team.
Contact Information
Wellbeing Centre Manager: Jan Ferris
Email: jan.ferris@stantonbury-tove.org.uk
Telephone: 01908 324482
Counselling
A full therapeutic assessment is carried out with the student before they are allocated a block of counselling. Our counselling sessions last for 50 minutes and are carried out on a weekly basis with one of our trained professionals. They provide an opportunity for students to express feelings without being judged and to work through some of the issues they may be facing in a safe, confidential, and supportive environment. All counselling sessions are confidential unless safeguarding issues arise where school policy for safeguarding will then be adhered to.
Topics that might be explored in counselling include:
- Complex Anxiety
- Bereavement and Loss
- DV history
- Depression and Low Mood
- Attachment
- Abuse
- Adverse childhood experiences (ACES)
- Self-harm
- Identity
Students are referred for counselling by their SSL but they can self-refer using our confidential wellbeing email service (reachout@stantonbury-tove.org.uk) or by attending the Wellbeing Drop in on a Monday after school 3.15-4.00 in the Wellbeing Centre.
Additional Support
We work closely with our safeguarding team and external agencies to ensure students have the most effective support package for their needs.
Other support may include:
- Breakfast Club (Daily 8.15am – 8.40am)
- Mentoring Programme
- Youth Team
- Ethos Team
- Ride High Schools Programme
- iCASH sexual health drop-in (Monday 3.15pm – 4.00pm)
- CAMHS
- Child Bereavement UK
- Service Six
- Mental Health Support Team
- Safe Project
- Milton Keynes Drugs and Alcohol service
- External Therapeutic support (Including: Relate, Arthur Ellis, YiS)
Mental Health Support Team
This is a service that supports children and young people (CYP), aged 5 to 18, and their families, with mild to moderate mental health difficulties which can include anxiety and/or depression.
MHSTs work with CYP, parents/carers, school staff, and external specialist services. They provide support through:
- Group programmes.
- 1:1 intervention, where indicated by the need.
- Training and workshops for both schools and parents.
- Guided self-help based on anxiety, low mood, or sleep.
- Signposting to other services – family support, bereavement
- Whole school approaches
Sessions will be during the school day with the pupil/s or with the parent depending on your child’s age and the intervention needed.
Referrals are made by the Wellbeing Centre Manager.
Additional Wellbeing Support & Information can be found on the following Websites
Mind BLMK – For better mental health
Samaritans - you are not alone
YIS Young People's Mental Health
REFLECT (text REFLECT to 85258)
Milton Keynes Talking Therapies Service
