Project partners - Lincoln Christ’s Hospital School

Lincoln Christ’s Hospital School

Headteacher: A D M Wright BSc Ph.D
Wragby Road
Lincoln LN2 4PN
Telephone: 0044 (0) 1522 881144
Website: www.christs-hospital.lincs.sch.uk
E-mail: education@christs-hospital.lincs.sch.uk

Staff: approximately 200 (teachers and support staff)
Number of pupils in years 7 – 11: 1100 (aged 11-16)
Number of pupils in sixth form: 300 (aged 16-19)

Facilities

With its beautiful sandstone cloisters, Lincoln Christ’s Hospital School has stood in its own grounds 15 minute walk from Lincoln Cathedral since 1906. In recent years, the school has invested significantly in facilities for learning, mostly recently the Darwin Building which is home to state-of-the-art Science laboratories and a major new sports development. This includes a tennis pavilion, dance studio, fitness suite, as well as a full sized 3G all weather floodlit football pitch and a 25metre heated swimming pool. The school is well stocked with computers and ICT facilities accessible to all students. Vocational subjects are taught in specialist classrooms with modern cooking facilities, engineering and technology equipment.

Activities

Lincoln Christ’s Hospital School originated in 1090. Today it is a genuinely all-ability comprehensive school serving a very mixed catchment area including pupils from the most socially deprived district of Lincoln, as well as isolated outlying villages.
Over 13%, 179 children receive Free School Meals; 301 are on the Special Needs Register; some families are very much on the fringes of society: a number of our school leavers are on the NEET register (Not in Education, Employment or Training). In addition there has been a significant change to the school in the last three years with an increasing number of migrant families, mostly from the new EU countries. Approximately 11% (113 pupils) of our pupils do not use English as their first language with nearly 50 children being the largest group. This makes the Comenius Regio ‘Family matters’ project particularly relevant to us.
The school cares for every single student. We believe that every child has the capacity for outstanding achievement. Our mission is to help each individual unlock that capacity. We hope and expect that our young people will grow into self confident, articulate, caring and compassionate adults. All we do is rooted in that simple belief.
Over the centuries we have had many varied successes. Mark Byford, the current Deputy Director of the BBC, was a pupil here and Paul Palmer won a silver medal in the 400m freestyle swimming at the Atlanta Olympics. In March 2009, OFSTED, the government inspectors, rated the school as ‘good with some outstanding features’.

Other important matters

The school has had Language College status since 2001, and offers teaching in French, Spanish, German, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Russian and Arabic. We have a good reputation for our international dimension activities with twelve partner schools in other countries, and achieved Full Award International School status for the fourth time in August 2009 - one of only 17 schools in the country. We provide regular placements for Foreign Language assistants from France, Germany and Spain, participated in Immersion Courses in France and Russia, and currently have members of staff from China, France, Poland and Spain on our payroll. In the academic year 08-09, we very successfully hosted a Polish Comenius Assistant, and this year hope to build on this, with a new Comenius assistant from Hungary.
In 2008, a group of pupils from our school, visited a Youth Camp, organised by the City of Radomsko, at which there were pupils from the Ukraine, Poland and the UK. The pupils enjoyed this experience very much, and encouraged them to continue forging relationships with people from other countries. Following this project, our pupils would very much like to be given the opportunity to visit schools in Poland and to welcome Polish pupils back to Lincoln Christ's Hospital School.