The Skinners' School - Buildings and Property

Buildings and Property

The school consists of a range of buildings built at various stages of the school's history. While each building services specific departments, these have changed as new building/facilities became available:

• The Main School and The School House are the oldest buildings on site and were the only buildings of the school when it opened in 1888 (built 1887). School House contains administrative offices including the school reception, headmaster's and deputy headmaster's offices. Main School houses the staff room and the library. Until recently, Main School was home to the music department and biology department, but these moved to other buildings when better facilities became available. The large rooms left behind have become home to some the English department.

• The New Wing was built in 1960. Due to its stark architecture, the concrete building is most out of place within the school and is often ironically referred to as The 'New' Wing. It contains the physics and chemistry laboratories and more recently now serves the biology laboratories. The laboratories were completely renovated on the school being awarded special science status in 2005 which prompted the biology department's move. New Wing also contains the sixth form facilities and the dining hall, which contains the canteen and is where whole school assembly is held before lessons every Monday morning.

• The Knox Wing (built in 1980) contains 8 class rooms each of very similar appearance. These rooms serve as form rooms and also class rooms for economics, geography, history and religious studies.

• The Leopard Building (built 1994) contains dedicated rooms for art and design/technology. Recently it has become home to IT rooms and the other class rooms serve as form rooms and rooms for mathematics. In 2010 the design technology rooms were upgraded to included facilities for delivering food technology.

• The Cecil Beeby Building is the newest building on the school grounds built in 2002. This provides dedicated resources for the modern foreign language department and also provides form rooms. It was built on the site of two old cabins where German used to be taught.

• The Gym was constructed in 1900 and is now too small to meet the sporting needs of the pupils. The school has planning permission to provide a new sports hall - the construction of this facility was finished during June 2012 and officially opened by the Chair of the Governing Body on the 9th November 2012.