AYLESBURIAN

In 1974 due to the ongoing expansion of the school it was necessary to introduce a brand new House to the school and thus Lee House was born. Strangely, in terms of the Aylesburian there was no significant mention of this new addition aside from one student article in the 1975 edition of the magazine…

AYLESBURIAN MAGAZINE FROM THE ARCHIVES 1970s

To cope with the ever-expanding student numbers in the school, some more major building work was commissioned and then completed in 1977. The Sixth Form block and the Lecture Theatre rose spectacularly into view during this phase…

AYLESBURIAN MAGAZINE FROM THE ARCHIVES 1970s

Sixth Form students preparing their scientific demonstrations and equally impressive haircuts for the 1977 Open Day…

An interesting take on the future of sustainable energy from the 1977 Sixth Form conference…

As another decade dawned and with yet further expansion of student numbers in the school Paterson was added as the sixth House in the school, completing the set we retain to this day. In 1980 we lost Mrs Olive Paterson, School Governor for a full fifty-five years. As then Headmaster, K.D.Smith wrote in his Aylesburian report in the 1981 edition…

“Mrs Paterson was a School Governor for fifty -five years and for no less than thirtythree of these she held the office of Chairman of the Foundation Governors, and for twenty years the Chairmanship of the main Governing Body. She embodied for me all that is best in the spirit of the school and indeed in the spirit of Aylesbury. She was, of course the Mayor of Aylesbury for five difficult years during the war and had outstanding qualities of courage and determination. But what is more important, she took the keenest personal interest in everyone she knew” …. With such long and dedicated service to the school, nothing was more fitting than continuing that impressive legacy by naming the newest school House after Mrs Paterson.

Of course, as was the case with the induction of Lee House less than ten years previously a new House needs a little time to bed in and gain enough students to compete fully in the Brodie and Watson trophy competitions. Here is their first, and understandably brief House report from the 1983 edition of the magazine.

It is also apparent from reading the report below that we need to update Mr Digby’s current role profile in school too – Resources Director, Inters House Basketball runner-up (1982) and ‘spectacular’ batsman!