The Deepings School

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The Deepings School - a Business and Enterprise College

In pursuit of excellence
Founded: 1957
Type: Comprehensive
Location: Deeping St James, Lincolnshire, England
LEA: Lincolnshire
Ofsted number: 120635
School Category: Business & Enterprise
Headteacher: Mr Beckett
Staff: c.90
Students: 1341
Age Range: 11 – 18
Gender: Mixed
Website: Official website

The Deepings School is a business and enterprise college in Deeping St James, near Peterborough in England, at which over 1,400 pupils aged 11-18 study, taught by over 80 teaching staff. The school has a highly acclaimed sixth form for A-level studies, that recently performed very well in the school league tables. The current headmaster is Mr Beckett, recently promoted in 2005 to the post after the resignation of the preceding Dr Bryers.

Extra income recently has seen a development programme for the school, with a new Business and Enterprise block and the instalation of a new staff room.

1 Departments
2 History
3 External links

[edit] Departments

The school offers a wide range of subjects, within the following depatments;

[edit] Art & Technology

The Deepings School art facilities consist of the second floor of the Design block. Recently, ICT has been introducted to increase the role thereof in art.

[edit] Communications

The oldest part of the school serves as the English language block. Students may take both English language and English Literature for GCSE, and have the option of doing Communication Studies or English Literature at A-level.

Foreign languages are also taught at the school. These consist of French and German. Since the removal of a compulsory language at GCSE level in 2004, uptake of a second language has decreased at level 2 stage. French is taken overall by more students than German.

Although attempts have been to introduce other languages, these so far remain confined only to after school and night classes.

[edit] Science and Maths

Science is taught along the national Curriculum. Of interest is the Further Maths course at A-level, which unlike at many schools, is timetabled.

[edit] Humanities

As well as Geography and History being taught, Philosophy and Sociology have recently seen larger uptakes for A-level courses.

[edit] History

The school was originally called the Deepings County Secondary Modern School. Whilst under this name, the headmaster, Vivian Sweet, was killed in a crash in his Ford Cortina on October 2nd 1974 at North Rauceby on the A17.