Caistor Yarborough Academy
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Caistor Yarborough Academy is a mixed 11–16 yrs secondary school based in the Lincolnshire market town of Caistor, England. The school was founded as Caistor Yarborough School on 18 October 1938, and celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2013. The school serves a large area of rural Lincolnshire, with a number of pupils travelling from outside the local area to attend the school, including pupils from Grimsby and Scunthorpe. It performs consistently well at GCSE.
About the school
Location
The academy occupies a hilltop site on the edge of the town of Caistor. Featuring predominantly
The academy is on the eastern edge of the town and the main access is from Grimsby Road (A1084) to the North of the site, with the A46 Caistor Bypass forming the Southern boundary of the site. The nearest major towns and cities include
History
Built in 1938, Caistor Yarborough School was named after John Edward Pelham, the 7th Earl of Yarborough. It became an academy in 2011 and changed its name to Caistor Yarborough Academy. It is sited near the border of the Brocklesby House estate, the Yarborough family seat, and the landmark Pelham's Pillar is situated a mile to the north of the Academy. The Pillar is in the grounds of the Brocklesby estate and is an observation tower built as a memorial to Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Earl of Yarborough.
Creative arts
In September 2006, Caistor Yarborough was designated a specialist
Facilities
Today the Academy has a variety of buildings of different ages including some temporary facilities, due to ongoing development of the site in to ensure that it meets the requirements of a modern educational establishment.
Like many schools of the era, the original building was constructed around a small quadrangle, with the main hall to the east side and classrooms built around the other three sides. This building still exists, housing mainly technology workshops. The 'old school', as it is known, also houses the main entrance, school office, and information technology rooms. On a clear day, Lincoln Cathedral, approximately 24 miles southwest of the town, can clearly be seen in the distance from various points around the school site.
Site developments
The first major development of the site, was the construction of a two-storey classroom block for English and Mathematics, and a single storey block of purpose built labs for Science.
Later, in the 1990s, another two-storey teaching block was constructed, housing classrooms for Religious Studies, History, Geography and Modern Foreign Languages. This new building was attached to the existing English & Maths block and the layouts of some of the existing rooms were changed to provide direct access between the two buildings on both floors. The school library was relocated to a mobile classroom which was no longer needed after the new block was built and an IT suite was installed in its place. The new facility was officially opened in 1998 by Charles Pelham, the current Earl of Yarborough.
Caistor Sports Hall was purpose built for the school in the 1990s. The building houses a fully equipped, multi-purpose sports hall, a
Following the construction of the new creative arts facility at the school in 2006, various changes were made to the site. The new building was constructed on the former staff car park, which was relocated. As the facility houses a canteen, this replaced the existing building, which was demolished along with other buildings also left redundant as a result of the build. These buildings had been grouped together next to the schools main driveway, so a new parking area was built in their place, designed to ease the ongoing problem of congestion caused by lack of space for school buses in the driveways. As well as being a creative arts facility for the school, the new building also houses facilities which double as a youth centre for the local community outside of school hours.
Curriculum
Caistor Yarborough follows the National Curriculum of England at
Notable former pupils
Yarborough School
- Jane Colebrook (born 1957), and her sister Teena (born 1956),[2] 800m runner, came third in the 800m at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Canada; Teena took part in the 1500 metres
Sources
- ^ "Artsmark Awarded Schools - Silver 2005, Gold 2007". Archived from the original on 14 June 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2008.
- ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Saturday 15 July 1972, page 10