Student Support Service (SSS)
This team support students and parents with a wide range of services. They provide medical attention and triaging, organise parents’ consultations, meetings, deal with attendance, absence and punctuality, behaviour management, uniform, and signpost to other pastoral support across the school and externally. Student Support Services are located behind Reception at the front and at the heart of our school.
Student Support Lead – Mrs Andrea Paskins
Matron – Mrs Caroline Isabelle
Matron – Mrs Emer Kelleher Bates
Student Support Administrators – Mrs Debbie Puleston & Mrs Erika Sage
Sixth Form Student Support Administrator – Mrs Jane Wingrove
Pastoral Team
Student Support Services work directly with our Heads of Year/House and our Tutors. Every student has a tutor and is part of a House and Year Group. Wycombe High School’s pastoral structures work vertically and horizontally. Heads of House are responsible for the ethos and behaviour of their Houses. They also have a year group academic focus.
Head of Year 7 – Mrs Andrea Paskins & Miss Valentina Stefanile
Head of Year 8 – Mr Ben Howells
Head of Year 9 – Miss Ella Calder
Head of Year 10 – Ms Claire Saxon
Head of Year 11 – Mr Paul Garrett-Chapman
Head of Year 12 & Year 13 – Mrs Penny Robinson
Head of Sixth Form – Mrs Sarah Ellis
Head of Austen – Mrs Penny Robinson
Head of Brontë – Mr Ben Howells
Head of Curie – Miss Ella Calder
Head of Nightingale – Ms Claire Saxon
Head of Pankhurst – Mr Paul Garrett-Chapman
Head of Parks – Mrs Andrea Paskins & Miss Valentina Stefanile
Special Educational Needs Department
Our Special Educational Needs department is led by our SenCo and Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead, supported by our full-time Individual Needs Leader and her team of Learning Support Assistants and a Specialist Teacher Assessor for Specific Learning Difficulties. Our SENd team work very closely with our Mental Health Team and provide training and guidance whole school to ensure our teachers and other staff are able to support a wide range of special educational needs.
Mental Health Team
Our Mental Health Team is led by our Mental Health Lead, Miss Laurie Garland. The team is made up of eight staff, including five counsellors, a family worker and a youth worker. They support our students directly and also signpost them to outside agencies should extra support be necessary. Our Team also develop and share well-being resources to use within the curriculum and outside of school with parents and families. Our statutory PSHE curriculum also keeps our students informed and aware of important matters related to their mental health and well-being. We have a dedicated Subject Leader for PSHEE, Mrs Lesley Woodward.
SENCo – Mrs Claire Cockcroft
Individual Needs Leader – Mrs Satpal Sunner
Learning Support Assistants – Mrs Misbah Shah and Mrs Mary Grocutt
Specialist Teacher Assessor – Gemma Adania
Mental Health Lead & DDSL- Miss Laurie Garland
Counsellors – Miss Kirstie Hancocks & Mrs Helen Lacy
Mental Health & Wellbeing Officer – Ms Chettina Fenech
Education Mental Health Practitioner – Bucks Mental Health Support Team
Youth worker – Bucks Mental Health Support Team
Family worker – Bucks Mental Health Support Team
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