- Lytchett Minster School
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street = Lytchett Minster
city =Poole
county =Dorset
country =England
postcode = BH16 6JD
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enrollment = 1567
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lower_age = 11
upper_age = 18
houses = kimmeridge, wealden, portland, gault, purbeck
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website = http://www.lytchettminster.dorset.sch.uk/
website_name =Lytchett Minster School is a
comprehensive school , with around 1200 students and 50 teachers, four miles fromPoole ,Dorset ,England . It contains seven academic years: year 7 (age 11 to 12), year 8 (age 12 to 13), year 9 (age 13 to 14), year 10 (age 14 to 15) and year 11 (age 15 to 16). The other two years are non-compulsory 6th form, year 12 and 13, age range 16 to 18.The school, uses a house system to arrange the students. The Head of House remains the same person for each pupil for the whole 5 years of
compulsory education . In the upper school there is no house system.Lower School
The Lower School comprises the compulsory education pupils, years 7 to 11. School pupils wear uniform, whilst Sixth Formers can wear office-suitable clothing. The uniform includes striped ties, blue and white pinstriped blouses/shirts and a blue v neck sweatshirt.
In activities such as
Sports Day , the houses compete for the Sports Day Trophy. There are also inter-house sporting activities, such as football, netball, rugby and other sports. There is a trophy for most of these sporting events, as well as the inter house chess contest. the houses are named after beaches in the south of england. The House names and colours are:
*Gault-yellow
*Kimmeridge-purple
*Purbeck-blue
*Portland-red
*Wealden-greenThe lower school are involved in theatrical productions, such as
Godspell andThe Sound of Music with the sixth form and years 10 and 11 playing the lead roles.Sixth Form
The school has a
sixth form , years 12 and 13, of students studying for, among others, GCE 'A' Level exams. The Sixth Form has its own centre, housing theCommon Room , offices of the Head and Deputy Head of Sixth Form, Sixth Form Staff Room and 2classrooms . There is also a sixth form study room in the school's manor house building which was opened in September 2006; it contains a computer room, work room and small reference library.The Sixth Form student structure has a
Head Boy andHead Girl with 6 deputies in Year 13. Each of the 6 deputies chairs a Sixth Form Committee. In the year 2006/7 these committees were; Social and Common Room Committee, Lower School Liaison Committee, Public Relations and Media Committee, Cultural Committee, Sports Committee and Charity and Fundraising Committee. There is also the Sixth Form Forum which is made up of one elected student from each tutor group, the Head Boy and Girl and the Chairperson of the School Council. The sixth form students also have a responsibility of caring for younger students.Achievements
The school uses its Arts College status to improve its Musical and Dramatic performances. The School often scores well in
Battle of the bands , a County wide competition where amateur bands play to impress a crowd and judges. Also, the school performs in theEngland SchoolRock Challenge , and has reached as high as 2nd place over the whole of England but has come 1st on many occasions in the sub-category of "Best Costume."The 2000 fire
The school was targeted by an
arsonist in June 2000, just before the turn of the academic year. The fire was started in a science lab, and then expanded (with the aid of the gas filled supply taps to all science labs) to devastate the whole of the Science, Maths and Humanities blocks. As the building was completely destroyed, and an investigation had to be undergone byPolice and Fire marshals, the school was forced to remain closed, adding an extra 2 weeks onto the 6 weeksummer holiday.The blocks that were destroyed have been replaced with temporary classrooms on the other side of the playing field (known as "the village"). This has led to problems, such as the need for travelling time between lessons, to enable pupils to walk the 400 m from the main site to the 'village' without missing education time and also that the government has to pay the land owners to use the land. There is a new building being built which will replace the "village" and will have the science labs, maths departments, and humanities demartment plus two houses (Wealden and Kimmeridge).
Building plans
The building for the new dining hall, science, humanities and maths classrooms started in end of October 2006. Large areas of the school site have been sealed off for building work including the playground which has been demolished. The building is due to be ready for the new academic year in September, but there seems to be a delay of a few weeks. The predicted time of completion is around October 2008.
External links
* [http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/index.cfm?fuseaction=summary&id=113863 Ofsted website] - Lytchett Minster School 2002 Ofsted report
* [http://www.lytchettminster.dorset.sch.uk Lytchett Minster School] - School website
* [http://www.edubase.gov.uk/EstablishmentView.aspx?EstablishmentID=13848 EduBase]News items
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7129287.stm Pupils drinking in the Czech Republic in December 2007]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/6923802.stm Work starts on rebuilding school July 2007]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/5085020.stm Two boys hit by lorry in June 2006]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/4979814.stm Rebuild given approval in May 2006]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/4087840.stm Banning charity wristbands in June 2005]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/4193015.stm £11m rebuild in January 2005]
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