Departments and Curriculum
Caistor Grammar School pupils work a 43-period week over five days. One period is equal to 35 minutes. There are four periods used for lessons before lunch on Mondays and Fridays, on which there is a school assembly in the gym (although on Fridays the church is sometimes used, and once a month house meetings take place on Fridays), and five on the rest. In the afternoon, there are four lesson periods every day, for a total of nine periods in a day. The school day runs from morning registration at 8.50am, until the end of lessons at 3.45pm.
Pupils are taught a variety of traditional subjects and modern languages remain compulsory to GCSE level. Caistor Grammar School does not offer vocational qualifications, only traditional GCSE, AS Level and A2 qualifications.
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