CAISTOR GRAMMAR SCHOOL
- CHURCH STREET, CAISTOR
LN7 6QJ LINCOLN, LINCOLNSHIRE
Phone: 01472 851250
Fax: 01472 852248
E-mail: Send messagewww.cgs.lincs.sch.uk
Short profile:
They aim to provide a community which will enable all who belong to make the most of their abilities and be happy.
We work particularly hard to help our students gain academic knowledge, learn practical skills and develop their power to reason. But we also try to promote learning in many other aspects of life, social, moral, spiritual, aesthetic and physical. We seek to achieve our objectives within a broad and balanced framework that gives a central place to the National Curriculum.
We want our students to be keen to learn and to be able to concentrate their minds on a task. We want them to respect accuracy; to be able to handle numbers with confidence and to express themselves effectively in speech and writing. We want them to be confident in their use of modern technology. They should be able to solve problems, look for evidence, consider both sides of a question and think independently. They should be able to work effectively either as an individual or as a member of a group.
Detailed description:
CAISTOR GRAMMAR SCHOOL are a relatively small school with approximately 640 pupils on roll. The school occupies an attractive site close to the centre of the small market town of Caistor.
School buildings help to form two sides of a close around the ancient Parish Church. The ironstone School Hall dates from 1631 and is still in daily use. The School Library alongside is housed in what was the Congregational Church built in 1842. Casterby House, once a large private house and now our Sixth Form Centre, overlooks the churchyard from the far side of the school gates.
Our main teaching block dates from the 1930s but was extended and modernised in 1984. This work gave us good provision for science teaching. The building also contains our classics and geography rooms. The Manning Building was opened in 1984. It provides teaching rooms for PE and modern languages and history and contains a large gymnasium. It has recently been enlarged to provide extra classrooms and a state of the art fitness suite and allows us to suite our on site sports facilities. Two new Technology Buildings were added in 1993 and 1994.
These contain rooms for design and technology, specialist rooms for information and communication technology and a fifth science laboratory. We now have student computers throughout the school linked on the same network, with six rooms having between 16 and 32 computers available for student use in each room.
There is a fine view from the top of the Terraces, in which further recreational space has been recently added. We possess extensive playing fields at nearby Navigation Lane, providing facilities for a number of sports including hockey, cricket, football, netball, tennis and athletics. Significant improvements have been made to our sporting facilities as a result of support from parents, our successful bid to become a Sports College and grants from the Football Foundation.
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