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Caroline Haslett School.

Caroline Haslett is a primary school for children from the ages of 4-11.

School opening

Caroline Haslett school opened in April 1992. The school celebrated 26 years in 2017 and had a huge picnic. In April 1992,Caroline Haslett Primary School was opened. At the very beginning, there were 8 teachers and 1 headteacher,Paul Hussey. Anne Bark,who was the deputy head at that time, taught 23 children in foundation. When it was first opened to the public,a ceremony was held. A time capsule was created. This contained some fascinating artefacts including newspapers from the first day school opened, some letters children sent to their future selves and a hologram image.

The hologram contained Paul Hussey, Anne Bark and six of the first children who attended the school. At the time, it was a record for the most people captured in a Hologram.

Caroline Haslett was the last primary school in Milton Keynes to open its doors immediately to children from ages 4 to 11. Further schools opening in the area restricted entry to fewer year groups before expanding. The school building was designed as a 1.5 form entry (45 children per year group). However, it soon became apparent due to the growth of Milton Keynes that the school would need to increase to 2 form entry (60 children per year group).

The school was officially opened by Sally Okwell-Page who is a now marketing consultant who won young female engineer of the year 1992.

Royal blue is the main colour of the school jumper and cardigan. The logo was designed by a pupil as part of a competition. The school uniform has remained the same for 27 years now although it was not compulsory for the first term the children attended the school in 1992.

Class Names

In 1991, the first classes were 1 to Year 7 Jane Miller taught Years 6 and 7, in this class there was 31 children.Then Catriona Morrison taught Years 3, 4 and 5, she had 27 children in her class. Frances Denham taught Year 3,4 and 5 and had 24 children in her classes. Lindsay Eagland taught year 1 and 2 and had only 25 children.Back in 1991 there were no class names.

When the school opened class names were the year that the children were in and the initials of the teacher that taught the class. Eg: Year 1 Mrs Woods class was - 1LW. In 2016, the School introduced class names, these were road names in Shenley Lodge.

The current names of Caroline Haslett’s classes are Aston (Aston close) and Pelton in Foundation, Edison (Edison Square) and Upton (Upton  in Year 1.

In 2014 an interim head Mr. Peter Waine split the school into four houses. These were originally Darwin, Berners-Lee, Hawking and Newton. The house names kept in theme with the science and engineering theme of the school and estate. One year later, in 2015, the houses were renamed Batey, Berners-Lee, Hawking and Goodall in order to promote women scientists to the children in the school. Hawking was named after steven Hawking the famous scientist.

Famous Staff and Pupils Throughout the years at Caroline Haslett,there have been lots of pupils and staff but some of them have grown up to be very famous: One pupil is Craig Pickering who attended the school in the 90s. He became a famous for the olympics, he played an olympic sprinter and Bobsleigher he won a bronze and gold medal.

Headteachers Caroline Haslett has had a series of headteachers over the 27 years. Four Headteachers have been in control of Caroline Haslett Primary School over the years.

Mr Hussey The school’s first headteacher was called Mr Hussey.He was a headteacher at the school for around 17 years. He had been a headteacher from when the school first opened in 1991 until 2007. Mr Hussey’s first name is Paul just like our current headteacher (Mr Quinton).

Mr Fergus Mr Fergus was at the school for 4 years. He started working at Caroline Haslett primary School in 2010. Mr Waine Mr Wain was our third head-teacher of Caroline haslett school and was working here for four months after Mr Fergus had left the school.Mr wain was sadly not been working here for that long but then we had a brilliant  head teacher, Mr Quinton.

Mr Quinton Mr Quinton is our present headteacher (2019). He has been here since 2015 which is five years ago and has been a hard working man through the five years that he has been at the school.

Caroline Haslett Primary School contains three separate buildings.

The Mekon, the Main building and the Faraday/library. The main building was the first to be created and was home to every single class at first from Foundation (aged 4) to Year 7 (aged 12). The school building was based on an ‘bobsleigher day’ learning approach wiith some home bases and a shared area. The classrooms in the main building are very small due to the 1991 days when the teacher would work with a small group while the other pupils played independently.

In around 2002, the Mekon was built. This is an energy efficient bright green building and is named after a comic book character from Dan Dare. The Mekon was leader of the Treens, a super scientist who was bred for his intellect. Originally, the name had been suggested as a joke by the then headteacher Paul Hussey. However, the name was quickly used as it fit in with the science and engineering theme.

When the Mekon was built, the school moved Years 5, 6 and 7 into it. In 2004, Milton Keynes no longer catered for Year 7s in the Primary school. Currently, the Mekon has Years five and six remaining in the Mekon and the main building has foundation and Years one, two, three and four.

The Faraday/library building is next to the main building.The Faraday is where year five and six eat their hot meals and contains a breakfast and after school club.