The Corsham School

The Corsham School is a large secondary school, with a sixth form, in Corsham, Wiltshire, England. The school has academy status, and as of January 2022 has 1,129 pupils enrolled. Catchment Students attend from the market town of Corsham and nearby villages such as Colerne, Neston, Box, Lacock, Shaw and Batheaston; and from more distant places such as the towns of Chippenham and Melksham and the city of Bath. Layout The school has five main blocks. It also contains a couple of small buildings. It has two playgrounds and a large field which are used at break time and lunchtime and also for PE lessons. The school also makes use of the facilities of the nearby Springfield Centre including the astroturf pitch, indoor pitch and swimming pool for PE lessons. S block or the Science Block – the only three-floored building in the school. Has the school's Science and Computing rooms and also contains the main hall, the canteen, one of the school's two gyms with changing rooms, and several offices. T Block or the Technology Block – a building mainly containing Art and DT rooms. Has two fully equipped cooking rooms, two small computer rooms, an English classroom and a Maths classroom. R Block or the Richards Block – a two-storey building built in 2003, used for English, Maths and Geography with the Maths classrooms being upstairs, the English classrooms downstairs and the Geography classrooms in an extension to the northwest of the building. Also contains a computer room. It is named after Clive Richards, who taught at the school for a number of years. L Block or the Library Block – has the school's main reception, the library, staff room, the reprographics room and the offices of senior staff, including the head teacher's. H Block or the Humanities Block – the largest building in the school containing History, RE, PSHE, Modern Foreign Languages, Business Studies, Economics, Psychology and Music classrooms. The two Music classrooms are equipped with pianos and other instruments. There are two Drama studios which are connected to the block with no direct access to the rest of the block from inside them, and a second gym with changing rooms that are in a similar situation to that of the Drama studios. There is also a dance studio. The newest building in the school, built in 2019 and extended in 2020, is used for the school's sixth form centre and SEND room respectively. It is located opposite H Block.