St Mary's Sports College
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St. Mary's Sports College is a mixed Roman Catholic secondary school
Secondary school
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 and sixth form college in Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull
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, East Riding of Yorkshire
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, England
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. It was formed following an amalgamation between the former St Mary's RC girls High School and Marist College RC High School for boys. In 2002, 'The Academy' was built, a state of the art sports centre for members of the school to use and members of the public to use outside of school hours.

Subjects and courses

St. Mary's Sports College has many courses at different levels to choose from. They have for the school, years 7 to 11 the core subjects, Maths, English and Science. Religious Education
Religious Education
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 (RE) and Physical Education
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....

 (PE) are also compulsory for years 7 - 11 at the school.

The Sixth Form College, ages 16-19 offers many courses to choose from to meet students' needs whether it be a A-Level Course or a BTEc First or BTEc National course. A-Level courses offered are: English Language, English Literature, Law, Chemistry, Applied Science, German, French, Spanish, Psychology, Maths, Sociology, Government and Politics and Philosophy and Ethics, Applied ICT, Applied Business Studies. As well as St. Marys Sports College being a Sports College (Hence the name), it is also a Roman Catholic College, so in Sixth form, one hour a week of general RE is compulsory unless A-Level RE (Philosophy & Ethics)is chosen as an option or five subjects are studied as opposed to four.

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