Stocklake Park Community School
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Stocklake Park Community School, (formerly known as Park School), is a co-educational
Coeducation
Mixed-sex education, also known as coeducation or co-education, is the integrated education of male and female persons in the same institution. It is the opposite of single-sex education...

 special school in Aylesbury
Aylesbury
Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire in South East England. However the town also falls into a geographical region known as the South Midlands an area that ecompasses the north of the South East, and the southern extremities of the East Midlands...

, Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....

. It is a community school, which takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 19. The school has approximately 65 pupils.
The school caters for children with severe and multiple learning difficulties. Prior to 2007 the school also catered for children of primary school age.

Charitable Connection

Park School is notable in that in 1983 it received a donation of a minibus, raised from funds from a golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 match. The organisers of this golf match were English rugby supporters who had watched England win the Wooden Spoon
Wooden spoon (award)
A wooden spoon is a mock or real award, usually given to an individual or team which has come last in a competition, but sometimes also to runners-up. Examples range from the academic to sporting and more frivolous events...

 in the 1983 Five Nations Championship. They went on to found the Wooden Spoon Society
Wooden Spoon Society
Wooden Spoon is a children's charity founded in 1983, when the England rugby team received the Wooden Spoon in the 5 Nations. Spoon is dedicated to helping children and young people who are disadvantaged physically, mentally or socially by using sport as a method of improving lives while...


which in 2007 is now a major charity in the UK and Ireland, raising funds for disadvantaged children and young people.

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