another silly thing about my school

[mollykins]

Aswell as the fact that the heating comes through the ceiling of the school, non of the three halls are big enough for the whole school to congregate, is that silly or what?

Plus at the moment there are only years 9, 10 and 11 with some 6th formers, but because the middle schools are closing down, there will soon be years 7 and 8 but no 6th formers.

At the moment you can just about fit a year group into the drama studio, if extra chairs are put out (there are about 100 fixed, folding chairs.) Also, houses can have assemblies aswell, and because a house is a quarter of the school, my house at least can fit in without extra chairs, but if they almsot double in size, i don't think even a house will fit in to have an assembly.

What were the architects and builders thinking of? Can the whole school fit into a hall of a high school you know of?

[sara3]

maybe the school was built to house fewer pupils. the populations has increased over the years.

[mollykins]

ps. thinking about it there probably more like between 150-200 chairs in the dramam studio as there's about 250 in my year group and between 50 and 80 extra chairs put out.

possible, but 1/4 to 1/3 of the school wouldn't need anywhere near the amount of classrooms that there are.

[Prudie]

Exactly, how old is your school? You repeatedly tell us you live in a rural area so it probably wasn't designed for large numbers originally.

[mollykins]

I live in a rural area, but the school is 2 miles away, on the border between the other end of my village and town.

[mollykins]

eerrr, it was built in the 70's possibly early 80's i think.

[sara3]

well then, the reason is as stated in my response.

[mollykins]

The internal walls and celing are partially made out of compacted cardboard, was there a time when this was popular?

[mollykins]

But like i say, that amount of pupils wouldn't need the rest of the school to be that big.

[beejay1124]

yup-the neolithic period molly

[mollykins]

Plus in my village and the nearby town, there are only a handful of houses that have been built since the school would have opened, so where have the extra people come from?

[Prudie]

To be honest Idon't really know what you're trying to say!!!

[sara3]

class sizes have increased nationwide.

[ChuckFickens]

Yep, paper mache schools, definitely popular during the neolithic period.

[mollykins]

That the amount of pupils that are here now can't be that much more than when it first opened, so why wasn't the hall built to accomodate more people.

Plus are schools that you lot know of built so that only a year group or house can fit in the hall only?

[sara3]

you've been at the school for a few years. the school has been there for 40.

give it a rest, please.

[mollykins]

The average size of classes in my school must be about 22. 250 pupils per year group and 11 (sometimes 9 or 10) classes running at a time.

[Prudie]

If you are genuinely interested in the answer to your question then ask the school for records of the pupil numbers each year since it opened and see if there is a marked increase.

[ChuckFickens]

I'd be willing to bet it was built earlier than you think too, very few schools were built during the 80's.

And my school didn't have a single hall that could fit all 1400 pupils in at the same time.

[benny3008]

We had the same sort of thing at my school, the house assembly's, non of our 4 halls could fit the whole school in either, however there were 1200 students, so it would be a squish in any hall.

[mollykins]

My history teacher who has been teaching there since the school opened said that he thinks there has only been a small increase. I asked him about it and he said its silly but doesn't know why, and that the whole school has never been able to fit in the hall.