Brimsham Green School is a comprehensive

Comprehensive school

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 secondary school

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 in Yate

Yate

Yate is a town in South Gloucestershire, England, at the southwest extremity of the Cotswold Hills, 12 miles northeast of the city of Bristol. At the 2001 census the population was 21,789. The town of Chipping Sodbury is continuous with Yate to the east...

, South Gloucestershire

South Gloucestershire

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, England. The school is a specialist Humanities College

Humanities College

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Situated toward the northern edge of Yate and serving both the town and adjacent South Gloucestershire villages, Brimsham Green School has modern facilities grouped within a single site. It has a humanities

Humanities

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 block, design and technology block, art

Art

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

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Mathematics

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 block, English

English studies

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Music

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Language

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s block, a study centre and sports hall, and they are all on one floor except for the humanties block which has a lift providing access to the first floor.

In recent years the school has undergone a number of modernisations including the building of a new Design Technology block where the cricket cages had previously been and with wide ranging extensions made to the English and Music departments. The Administration block has also seen the library move out into the English block.

Uniform

Brimsham Green School has maroon polo shirts with the logo on the left hand side and black trousers. The pupils used to wear a white shirt with a maroon stripe tie. During physical education, female pupils wear a white school polo shirt, with black shorts. For netball team games they also wear a maroon skirt. Boys' PE uniform changes depending on the sport. For indoor sports they wear a white shirt and white shorts with white socks. They also wear this kit for cricket and athletics. For outdoor sports they wear a maroon rugby top and black shorts.

Future

The school was considering Academy status, but the governors and staff decided that the school and pupils would not benefit from transfering due to the extra expense incurred during the transfer.