Recent Developments
The school began its development and expansion in 1991, with the technology block (later renamed the Feoffees' Building), housing science, art, home economics and technology classrooms. A new music suite was completed in 1993, followed by the Walker Building in 1996 - a library and resources centre, history classrooms, language classrooms/lab and IT suite. Shortly after, the new canteen opened in 1998 and the year after, 1999, the Sixth Form Study Centre was completed. 2001, saw the construction of the Coly Building - a suite of four classrooms for geography, history and technology. In 2003, an additional IT room was opened. A new Sports Hall - complete with sprung flooring, changing rooms and dance studio - was built in 2004, as well as the re-surfacing of the all-weather pitch. In 2006, a new Arts Centre and a re-built Chemistry Block, were completed. Finished in Summer 2008, was The Sindall's building, containing an extended sixth form centre to allow for the new 3-year sixth form and two new physics laboratories. This has allowed for the refurbishment of technology rooms and teaching, with three new or refurbished technology rooms and a CAD/CAM suite. The development also included a major reshuffle of room allocations to subjects such as Geography, Religious Studies and History, as well as Technology and Physics, to allow more effective teaching and efficient room allocating. The school now has solar panels on the roof of Take Five, the canteen, as well as developing an eco-woodland reserve to make the school more environmentally friendly. Also a Green Society is in place to help save the world. In 2010, an extension to the music block was added, including additional teaching rooms and a performance area.
The school offers the AQA Baccalaureate but has no current plans to offer the International Baccalaureate as an alternative to A levels.
The school, as of 2007, had students taking GCSEs in year 10 as opposed to year 11, allowing for a three year Sixth Form.
On 1st January 2011, Devon County Council ceased to maintain the school. The school became one of the Coalition Government's Academies. Colyton Grammar School Academy Trust, an exempt charity and company limited by guarantee assumed responsibility for this state funded independent school.
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