De Lisle College
De Lisle College (formerly De Lisle Roman Catholic Comprehensive School, then De Lisle Catholic Science College and sometimes called De Lisle School) is a co-educational secondary school with academy status in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. According to the Ofsted website it has 1,400 pupils. It was designated as a science specialist school in 2003. It draws the majority of its pupils from seven local Catholic primary schools, including Bishop Ellis, Sacred Heart, St Mary's, St Winefride's, St. Clare's, St Francis and Holy Cross Academy. Since September 2018, it has been a part of the St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Multi-Academy Trust.[1]
| De Lisle College | |
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Thorpe Hill , , LE11 4SQ | |
| Coordinates | 52°46′13″N 1°14′12″W |
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| Type | Academy |
| Motto | Latin: Quod justum, non quod utile (Do What Is Right, Not What Is Easy) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Catholic |
| Established | 1959 |
| Department for Education URN | 138298 Tables |
| Headteacher | Dr J Pye |
| Staff | 100 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Age | 11 to 18 |
| Enrolment | 1400 |
| Houses | 4 |
| Colour(s) | Sports: black and white. Ties: black and blue and gold diagonal stripes, navy with silver logo for sports students, navy with golden logo for headmaster's students. |
| Website | http://www.delisle.org.uk/ |
School traditions and other information
The school logo is a stag, a reference to the deer which once roamed the land the school is built on, before it was given to the county by local landowner Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps De Lisle, from whom the school also takes its name.
The school's Latin motto, "Quod justum, non quod utile" is often translated as "do what is right, not what is easy" but literally translates to "what is fair, not what is useful."
The school has seven houses: Margret Clitherow (blue), Thomas Moore (red), John Fisher (green), Ralph Sherwin (yellow), Nelson Mandela (black), Anne Frank (orange) and Basil Hume (pink). For a period, four of the houses were renamed after individuals with a religious legacy: Mother Teresa (blue), Oscar Romero (red), Martin Luther King Jr. (green) and St. Bernadette (yellow), though the names had reverted by sometime before September 2019.
School buildings
On site facilities include a swimming pool, a library, and a cashless vending system operated by the user's thumbprint.
The school retains all of its original 1950s structures, but renovation work has been put into the Science rooms, giving them a complete refit, the Art and Design & Technology rooms (in some cases completely remodelling them).
New buildings
In the late 1990s, the Modern Foreign Languages block was built separately from the other school buildings next to the swimming pool, allowing the department to have its own buildings and rooms. This was dubbed the "New Block", but has now reverted to "Languages Block" with the rooms losing the "N" prefix to be replaced by the "L" (e.g. L2). In 2003/4 the Humanities block was built as an add-on to the science buildings, allowing the Science department to branch out.
Two mobile classrooms have also been built, taking up small portions of what used to be the main playground. These were intended as temporary units for classroom overflow, but have since become much more permanent, with new ramps to the doors. There are two rooms in each unit. The rooms have been recently refurbished and are now home to year 7 creating a fun and bright environment. There are now four mobiles, split in half to make eight classrooms. To non-year 7 students, the mobiles serve as classrooms for an all-round general purpose, from English to Business Studies.
References
- "Our Schools – St Thomas Aquinas". www.aquinas-cmat.org. Retrieved 14 November 2018.