Vale of Catmose College (VCC)
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Vale of Catmose College is a community college (or a comprehensive secondary school) on Cold Overton Road in Oakham, Rutland. The catchment area covers the county town of Oakham and surrounding villages, although students are drawn from a wider area through parental choice.
VCC is a Specialist Arts College and the Catmose Gallery is the first professional public art gallery located in a community college. Compared to the other two Rutland secondary schools, it gets slightly lower results, but with 54% getting 5 grades A-C at GCSE (including English and Maths), this is well above the national average.
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[edit] History
- 1920 - Selective Central School
- 1937 - Secondary Modern School
- 1955 - Vale of Catmose Village College
- 1968 - new classroom block erected
- 1974 - new language department with language laboratory
- 1976 - new library and new science block
- 2006 - announcement of rebuild as part of Government's Building Schools for the Future programme, works due to complete around September 2009 Press release
[edit] Facilities
In the grounds of the school is the Vale of Catmose Sports Centre including the swimming pool which was refurbished in 2007. There is also the Catmose Gallery and the Catmose Theatre.
[edit] Sports
In December 2007, VCC won the Leicestershire & Rutland Schools' County Cup. They beat JCC 5-3 in the final, making them the best school football team in Leicestershire.
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