Lytchett Minster School

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Lytchett Minster School is a comprehensive school, with around 1200 student and 50 teachers, located just outside Poole, in southern Dorset. 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, unlike many local schools, uses a house system to arrange the students. This is due to the belief that a Head of House that remains constant will be able to form a better teacher/pupil relationship as the pupil has the same Head of House for the whole 5 years of compulsory education.

1 Lower school
2 Achievements
3 The 2000 Fire
4 External links

[edit] Lower school

The Lower school comprises of the compulsory education pupils, year 7 to 11. There are several differenced between Upper and Lower school. For example, the lower school pupils are required to wear a fixed uniform with strict regulations on jewellery, whilst the older Upper school can wear office-suitable clothing, but not a strict dress code (there are some rules to ensure the formality of the Sixth form lessons).

The House system only applies to the lower school, as previously mentioned, and therefore in activities such as Sports Day, the houses compete against each other for the Sports Day Trophy. There is also the 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 lower school are also involved in theatrical productions, such as Godspell and The Sound of Music.

[edit] Achievements

This school is an arts collage and is well known for scoring highly in Dorsets 'battle of the bands,' which is a musical competition and it is also known for scoring highly in 'The Rock Challenge' this is a Drama Competition between schools in England. The school achieved 5th place in this Country wide competition.

[edit] The 2000 Fire

The school was targeted by arsonists 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 by Police and Fire marshals, the school was forced to remain closed, adding an extra 2 weeks onto the 6 week summer holidays.

The blocks that were destroyed were relocated to the other side of the playing field, into Porta-cabins that have been placed onto the nearby land owners property. This has led to problems, such as the need for travelling time between lessons, to enable pupils to walk the 200m walk from the main site to the 'village' without missing education time.