Long Road Sixth Form College
Long Road Sixth Form College (LRSFC) is a public sector co-educational sixth form college in Cambridge, England. It is situated on Long Road, from which it draws its name, and is located next to the Cambridge Bio-Medical Campus which encompasses Addenbrooke's Hospital. The College provides full-time A level courses in addition to Level 3 Diploma courses, Level 2 Diploma courses and GCSE consolidation courses.
History
Established in 1974, the College occupies a 23-acre (9.3 ha) site.[1] Prior to this it was the Cambridgeshire High School for Girls, a girls' grammar school. A significant proportion of the College's current buildings date from this period, although there has been extensive renovation and the construction of three entirely new buildings, as well as a new sports centre that opened in 2005 (the College's first new sports building since 1939). Other renovation projects included the expansion of the Learning Resource Centre (in 2010), performing arts studios (in June 2012) and the student centre (in November 2012). Science laboratories were updated in August 2013 and new teaching spaces for media diploma and business diploma courses were opened in August 2013. Additional classroom space was provided for sociology and for the Level 4 Foundation in art and design course (2015). There are extended classrooms for the Criminology Diploma (2016).
Academia
The College has approximately 2,300 full-time students, who are between the ages of 16 and 19. Most of these students study A level courses, with others taking Level 3 Diploma courses, one-year GCSE courses or Level 2 Diploma courses.[2]
Sports
The College has sport facilities including playing fields (a football pitch, a rugby pitch), floodlit all-weather hockey pitch, two outdoor basketball courts, two tennis courts, and an indoor sports centre which includes a gymnasium and an indoor basketball court.[3]
External clubs also use the College's facilities as their home venue, such as Cambridge South Hockey Club on the Hockey pitch and Cambridge Cats Basketball Club in the gymnasium.
Notable staff members
- Dan Gresham, a drum and bass producer who was a teacher of music technology[citation needed]
Notable alumni
Cambridgeshire High School for Girls
- P. D. James, crime writer
- Jean Purdy, nurse and embryologist
- Margaret Spufford, historian
- Frances Stewart, development economist
Long Road Sixth Form College
- Sam Corley, Anglican bishop
- Heather Craney, actor who has appeared in Vera Drake, Life of Riley and Torchwood
- Everton Fox, weather presenter who previously presented for BBC Weather
- Emerald O'Hanrahan, actor who plays Emma Carter in The Archers
- Nick Mulvey, musician, twice nominated for the Mercury Music Prize
- Thomas Ridgwell, known for his internet videos under the name TomSka
- Rowan Robertson, musician, recruited to play guitar for Dio at age 17
References
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- Thomas Deacon Academy
- University of Cambridge Primary School
- Abbey College
- Arthur Mellows Village College
- Bassingbourn Village College
- Bottisham Village College
- Cambourne Village College
- Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology
- Chesterton Community College
- Coleridge Community College
- Comberton Village College
- Cottenham Village College
- Cromwell Community College
- Ely College
- Ernulf Academy
- Greater Peterborough UTC
- Hampton College
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- Impington Village College
- Jack Hunt School
- Ken Stimpson Academy
- The King's (The Cathedral) School
- Linton Village College
- Longsands Academy
- Melbourn Village College
- Neale-Wade Academy
- Nene Park Academy
- Netherhall School
- North Cambridge Academy
- Northstowe Secondary College
- Ormiston Bushfield Academy
- Parkside Community College
- Queen Katharine Academy
- St Bede's Inter-Church School
- St Ivo Academy
- St John Fisher Catholic High School
- St Peter's School
- Sawston Village College
- Sawtry Village Academy
- Sir Harry Smith Community College
- Soham Village College
- Stanground Academy
- Swavesey Village College
- Thomas Clarkson Academy
- Thomas Deacon Academy
- Trumpington Community College
- Witchford Village College
- Alconbury High School
- Heritage School
- Iqra Academy
- Kimbolton School
- King's Ely
- Landmark International School
- Mander Portman Woodward College
- The Leys School
- The Perse School
- Perse School for Girls
- The Peterborough School
- St Andrew's College
- St Mary's School
- Sancton Wood School
- Stephen Perse Foundation
- Wisbech Grammar School
- Cambridge Regional College
- Hills Road Sixth Form College
- Huntingdonshire Regional College
- College of West Anglia
- Long Road Sixth Form College