Recent Developments
The school specialises in sport, and briefly modern foreign languages. The refurbished Sports Hall was opened in October 2005, whilst a new Dining Hall was completed in spring 2006. When the school was awarded Sports College Status, five floodlit tennis courts were built at a cost of almost £250,000. It is hoped that further improvements will include better library and science provisions. Ruskin Sports College recently spent £30,000 on interactive whiteboards in 12 classrooms; the school governors are committed to more expenditure on information technology, and improved library facilities.
The school was renamed Ruskin Sports And Languages College on 26 September 2007, a day chosen because it was the European Day of Languages. The logo on the uniform was not changed.
Ruskin celebrated its centenary year on the Ruskin Road site in 2009. The celebrations officially began on Friday, 9 January 2009, with an assembly involving pupils and staff, ex-staff, ex-pupils, and government officials. Assembly was followed by a tree planting service and concluded with a memorial service, during which a bench was dedicated to each of the three pupils who lost their lives while pupils at the school.
At the beginning of the 2009/2010 academic year the school lost its specialist Language status, reverting to solely a Sports College.
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