The Castle School, Taunton

The Castle School


Motto	Achieve , Belong , Participate
Type	Academy
Headteacher	Sarah Watson
Chair	Sheila Naylor
Location	Wellington Road Taunton Somerset TA1 5AU England Coordinates: 51°01′01″N 3°07′04″W / 51.0169°N 3.1179°W / 51.0169; -3.1179
DfE URN	136916 Tables
Ofsted	Reports Pre-academy reports
Students	1,228 pupils (as of January 2012)
Gender	Mixed
Ages	11–16
Houses	Balmoral, Lancaster, Caernavon, Buckingham, Windsor, Sandrigham
Colours	Green, Orange, Purple, Red, Blue, Yellow
Website	www.castleschool.com

The Castle School is a co-educational secondary school in Taunton, Somerset, United Kingdom. It had 1,228 pupils aged 11 to 16 as of January 2012, and has had specialist Sports College status since 2003.^[1] It has recently been granted a second specialism in Vocational Education. During the schools latest Ofsted inspection, it received an "outstanding" rating in 26 out of 27 criteria.^[2] In July 2011, the school became an Academy.

Site

The original parts of the building include the tower block, and the ground floor building connected to it, which covers the canteen, main hall and science blocks. The newer buildings include the Qdos 6th Form Building, which opened in 2010 replacing two ageing mobile huts and partly extending the jubilee building, the Sealy Building, Sports Hall and Sports Centre and the Jubilee Building which opened in 2003. This has enabled departments to grow and offer more to its pupils by way of facilities and improved teaching rooms. However, the school has 1,236 pupils for a site only designed to hold 600.^[3]

Sport

Castle School is heavily involved in sport and offers pupils a wide variety of sports such as football, basketball, tennis, golf, hockey, parkour, athletics, and many more to participate in.

References

↑ Ofsted Inspection Report, January 2006
↑ Ofsted Inspection Report, June 2009
↑ Shepherd, Jessica. "Schools aren't fit for pupils to learn in, warn four in 10 headteachers". the Guardian. Retrieved 2015-04-16.

External links

Schools in Somerset¹

Primary	Bridgwater College Academy

Middle	Fairlands Middle School Hugh Sexey CE Middle School

Secondary	Ansford Academy Backwell School Bath Community Academy Beechen Cliff School Bishop Fox's School Blue School Bridgwater College Academy Broadlands Academy Broadoak Mathematics and Computing College Brymore Academy Bucklers Mead Community School Castle School Chew Valley School Chilton Trinity School Churchill Academy Clevedon School Court Fields School Crispin School Frome Community College Gordano School Hans Price Academy Haygrove School Hayesfield Girls' School Heathfield Community School Holyrood Academy Huish Episcopi Academy King Alfred School King Arthur's Community School Kings of Wessex Academy Kingsmead School Nailsea School North Somerset Enterprise and Technology College Norton Hill School Oldfield School Preston School Priory Community School Ralph Allen School Robert Blake Science College St Dunstan's Community School St Gregory's RC College St Katherine's School St Mark's CE School Sexey's School Somervale School Stanchester Academy Taunton Academy Wadham School Wellsway School Westfield Academy Whitstone School West Somerset College Worle Community School Writhlington School

Independent (preparatory)	All Hallows Preparatory School King's Hall School Millfield Preparatory School Hazlegrove Preparatory School

Independent (secondary)	Bruton School for Girls Downside School King Edward's School, Bath King's College, Taunton King's School, Bruton Kingswood School Millfield Monkton Combe School Park School Prior Park College Queen's College, Taunton Royal High School, Bath Sidcot School Taunton School Wellington School Wells Cathedral School

Special	Newbury Manor School North Hill House School Shapwick School Three Ways School

Former	Bluecoat School City of Bath Technical School Chilton Cantelo School Ladymead Community School Ravenscroft School Taunton Grammar School The St Augustine of Canterbury School Sexey's Grammar School St Brandon's School Weston-super-Mare Grammar School for Boys

Sixth Form and FE Colleges	Bath College Bridgwater College Dillington House Richard Huish College Somerset College of Arts and Technology Strode College Weston College Yeovil College

¹includes Bath & North East Somerset and North Somerset

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