The Priory City of Lincoln Academy (abbreviated as Lincoln Academy and formerly The City of Lincoln Community College) is a co-educational

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, England. It is a member of

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and leads the government's School Games Organiser programme. It is also a

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, exercising a partially selective intake in the former.

History

Construction

The school was built by FR Eccleshare Ltd of Dixon Street,to be finished by the end of June 1968. The contract was for £340,000. It opened on Tuesday 10 September 1968, with 600 boys, and the headteacher was Mr L Middleton. The total cost was £344,000, with a site of 35 acres. It was officially opened on Friday 27 September 1968, by Sir Francis Hill and the

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. The head boy was Steve Adlard. The next phase of construction was approved in March 1969, to cost £228,000. In November 1969, the second phase of construction was to begin by March 1971, costing £324,000, and was approved by the (Labour) government for 1970/71, for the school to become an eight-form comprehensive school. The chief education officer for Lincoln was Francis Stuart. In June 1970, selection was planned to continue to 1972. The swimming pool was officially opened on Wednesday 23 May 1973. The main part of the old School Building was completed in 1975 to designs by

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of Birmingham and was described in the

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as having an ''arresting sawtooth rhythm along the roof, repeated in the window heads and canopy''.

Grammar school

It was originally the City School, Lincoln, and moved from its original site on Monks Road, Lincoln in 1968. Much of the old school site was demolished in July 1976. The school competed in '' Television Top of the Form'', broadcast on BBC1 on Thursday 3 April 1969 against girls from Cambridge Grammar School (now

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). The team was Andrew Dobbs aged 11, Raymond Yarsley, John Herrick, and Anoottam Ghosh. The team won 43-38. In the quarter-final the team faced boys of

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on Thursday 15 May 1969. The team lost 64-52.

Comprehensive

In February 1973 boys were transferred from the former Sincil Secondary Modern School. By February 1973 the school had 1200 boys, when it went comprehensive, under the new headteacher Alan Garner. At the July 1973 prizegiving, the headteacher admitted that ''competition and comprehensive education did not always go together''. He said that, due to

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''the teacher must ask, that a boy should do his best, not say what his best should be''. After the high standards, and reputation, of the former boys

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, standards started to plummet within months. By April 1974, the headteacher had to lock the toilets during class time, to prevent truancy. In September 1974 it became a

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and was known as City of Lincoln Community College.

Academy

It became an academy in September 2008. The school is part of

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. With federation membership, a multimillion-pound redevelopment of the site was initiated, with work commencing in 2010 and completed in 2012.

Sports centre

The academy has a sports centre which has a swimming pool, fitness suite, gym, Sportshall, Dance Studio and outside there is a field and the MUGA (multi use games area) which is used for many different sports. In mid-2014 a 3G artificial pitch was opened.

Notable former pupils

Boys grammar school (1968-73)

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, sports coach, head boy in 1968, goalkeeper for the England school team *

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''Lincolnshire Echo'' Wednesday 9 August 1972, page 8

References

External links

Priory City of Lincoln Academy
* 1968 establishments in England Academies in Lincolnshire Educational institutions established in 1968 Schools in Lincoln, England Secondary schools in Lincolnshire {{Lincolnshire-school-stub