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'''The Castle School''' is a [[Coeducation|co-educational]] [[comprehensive school]] in [[Taunton]], [[Somerset]], United Kingdom. It has some 1,194 pupils aged 11-16, and has had [[Specialist school|specialist]] Sports College status since 2003. <ref>[http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/index.cfm?fuseaction=summary&id=123886 Ofsted Inspection Report, January 2006]</ref>.
== Facilities At The School ==
The school has many facilities which are used extensively by students and the local community on a regular basis. There are many sporting facilities for example such as the new Athletics Track which is one of the only all weather pitches in the UK. In addition there is a fully equiped gym with state of the art equipment as well as a sports hall. All of these facilities are used by students participating in P.E. and extra curricular activites and the local community also participate in activities and clubs run by the sports centre.
In addition to the many sporting facilities at the school there are also alot of IT facilities available exclusively to students. At present there are 5 stand a lone IT rooms as well as computers being situated in the Library, CDT rooms and in assorted other classrooms. These facilities offer students advanced help in their work, especially in History which is very I.T involved, with most lessons using IT to bring learning to life. On a much smaller scale the school also offers a Video Editing Suite, associated with the schools technical crew, used by Drama students to edit and refine their work. It is also used by students to help the school in many other ways such as producing video work for the schools leavers prom, and in the creation of promotional videos.
There are also the specially built music rooms complimenting and supporting the musical talent of Castle students. These music rooms help students styding music from year 7 to year 11 and also support musical bands set up by groups of students. The main hall also facilitates musical concerts, enabling students who participate in extra curricular music to express and show their talent.
The school continues to improve and expand the facilities it offers to students, making the school more modern and up to date.
== The Site ==
The Castle School site is very large in order to accomodate the ever increasing population of students. The orginal parts of the building include the tower block, and the ground floor building connected to it (which covers the canteen, main hall and science blocks). the newer buildings include the Sealy Building, Sports hall and Sports centre and the Jubillie building which opened in 2003. This has enabled departments to grow and offer more to its students by way of facilites and improved teaching rooms.
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