Buildings
The buildings/blocks are named after past headmasters or the subject taught there. The current buildings and their uses are as follows:
- The building (A) – Art and Drama
- The Business Centre(B) – Business Studies, Economics, Law and Philosophy
- The Canteen Extension(C) – Music, canteen seating and exhibition space
- The Dodd building (D) – Design and Technology and Information Technology
- The E Block(E) – English, careers, counselling and base for the Wirral Able Children Centre
- The Glasspool building (G) – English and Mathematics
- The GS block (GS) – Formerly Psychology, now converted into a cooking room.
- The Hawkins building (H) – Modern Foreign Languages. These Languages are French, Spanish, German, Russian,Chinese and Latin.
- The Walker building (W) – Sciences, Geography, History and Religious Education
- The Nigel Briers Building (W) – English, History, Government and Politics and study area
- The PE building (P) – Physical Education and studies
General Studies can be taught in any block in the school, depending on the rooms of the teachers teaching the subject that year. Each building has a letter code consisting of the first letter of its name, with the exception of the Briers building, which, for this purpose, is considered an extension of the Walker building. These letters are used to designate room names, for example, the second room (2) on the first floor (1) of the Hawkins building (H) is known as H12. Ground floor rooms have no floor number, so the third room (3) on the ground floor of the Walker building (W) is W3. Floor numbering does not extend to the Business Centre, where first floor rooms have single digit numbers.
The school's swimming pool is operated by an independent charity, Calday Grange Swimming Pool Trust.
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Famous quotes containing the word buildings:
“The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity’s language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity’s disappearance.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means—from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.”
—Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)
“Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes to us that is not altered and falsified by our Senses. When the compass, the square, and the rule are untrue, all the calculations drawn from them, all the buildings erected by their measure, are of necessity also defective and out of plumb. The uncertainty of our senses renders uncertain everything that they produce.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)