St Peter and St Paul's Catholic High School
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St Peter and St Paul's Catholic
High School (Or simply referred to as SSPP) is a Catholic, English Comprehensive school situated in Lincoln
. Apart from being one of only two Catholic high schools in Lincolnshire
it is the smallest Secondary School in Lincoln.
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and Maths building named 'The Annex Block'. Other buildings include a Science building, Sports Hall and most recently an English and Performing Arts
centre. There has also been temporary units such as 'The Magdalene Centre' which was mostly used for special needs but had been used for general teaching but this building was destroyed in 2008. Although most of these units have been destroyed, one still stands called 'The T Blocks' and are used as extra classrooms although originally as classrooms for English. Three years after The Magdalene Centre was destroyed, a new learning support centre was in the process of being built and was finished within a few months, it was called 'The Newman Centre' but is often referred to as 'The Bungalow' because technically it is a bungalow.
"The T Blocks" Were destroyed in the 2011 summer holidays the school is hoping to put another "picnic area" in place of it.
Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
High School (Or simply referred to as SSPP) is a Catholic, English Comprehensive school situated in Lincoln
Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Lincoln is a cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England.The non-metropolitan district of Lincoln has a population of 85,595; the 2001 census gave the entire area of Lincoln a population of 120,779....
. Apart from being one of only two Catholic high schools in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...
it is the smallest Secondary School in Lincoln.
History
The school was built in the late 1950s and when the school opened in 1959 it was very small and could only hold a very limited amount of pupils. Over time, the school has added additional buildings to extend the capacity of the school. A number of different subjects have been included on the curriculum over the years (e.g. Woodwork and Metalwork) but these have been taken away due to modernising the curriculumCurriculum
See also Syllabus.In formal education, a curriculum is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of deeds and experiences through which children grow to become mature adults...
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Buildings
When the school first opened there was only one building but has added more over the years. Originally the first buildings added were a set of typing huts but these were replaced with an ICTInformation and communication technologies
Information and communications technology or information and communication technology, usually abbreviated as ICT, is often used as an extended synonym for information technology , but is usually a more general term that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of...
and Maths building named 'The Annex Block'. Other buildings include a Science building, Sports Hall and most recently an English and Performing Arts
Performing arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...
centre. There has also been temporary units such as 'The Magdalene Centre' which was mostly used for special needs but had been used for general teaching but this building was destroyed in 2008. Although most of these units have been destroyed, one still stands called 'The T Blocks' and are used as extra classrooms although originally as classrooms for English. Three years after The Magdalene Centre was destroyed, a new learning support centre was in the process of being built and was finished within a few months, it was called 'The Newman Centre' but is often referred to as 'The Bungalow' because technically it is a bungalow.
"The T Blocks" Were destroyed in the 2011 summer holidays the school is hoping to put another "picnic area" in place of it.