The Priory Lincolnshire School of Science and Technology

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The Priory LSST

Contact Information	Phone: 01522 889977 Fax: 01522 871300
Type	Technology/Training
Head Teacher	Richard Gilliland
Location	Cross o'Cliff Hill Lincoln, Lincolnshire England
Ages	Year 7 to Year 13
Website	[Priory LSST website]

The Priory Lincolnshire School of Science and Technology, also known as The Priory LSST (previously LSST), is an English comprehensive school situated on Cross O'Cliff Hill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire. It has approximately 1600 pupils, 240 of which are in the sixth form.

The current headmaster is Richard Gilliland.

1 Performance
2 House system
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Performance

An Ofsted inspection in December 2005 rated the school as "outstanding" in every category [1]. However, it was commented that the school should increase communication between it and the parents of the pupils, as well as to take better consideration on the pupil's own ideas. Every child is expected to take at least one Technology GCSE.

For the past two years, the school has achieved 100% 5 A*-C GSCE's from Year 11 pupils, and it was featured in a Lincolnshire Echo (the local paper) front page article in 2005 where it was said that the school was the best in the country.

The school is both a "Technology College" and "Training School". It has been awarded the Artsmark and Sportsmark accrediations as well as the "International School Award (Intermediate)" ^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] House system

The school, in common with many private schools in England, designates each pupil and teacher entering the school a member of one of four houses, to which the student belongs to for the duration of their studies at the school. The house system provides inter-school competitions in sports and other activities, including a whole-school sports day, where an ice cream van is invited, and makes a lot of money.

The four houses within The Priory LSST are known as Sempringham, Avalon, Castille and Alexandria, and each of the houses' members are recognised by a coloured- yellow, green, blue and red badge respectively- on their clothing. These badges cost £1 from the school shop, however the value of them has been rated as less than 13p each.