Reigate Grammar School - Facilities

Facilities

The school site is split into two locations separated by the churchyard. On the "Broadfield" site, named so because of the playing field dubbed "Broadfield" behind the old science block, there are several old and new buildings. Until recently, Broadfield house (known to students as the history block), an old Reigate home, was where History, Economics, Business studies, Politics and other subjects were taught. It is now used for Drama. Also on Broadfield site is the newly renovated music block, which houses a recording studio, a concert hall, 17 soundproofed rehearsal rooms, a percussion room, and 3 teaching rooms.

Opposite Broadfield house is the Cornwallis building, which is another old Reigate home. It contains the Chaplain's office, the careers department, specially designed CCF training rooms and stores, and learning support for students with learning difficulties. This term the school has introduced a counselor who is based in Cornwallis. The Peter Masefield Hall, named after a contributor of the same name, is the school canteen/events room.

A purpose built performance room, opened by Judi Dench, is where the majority of the school's small scale performances take place. Known as the 'Drama Studio', it is attached to the spacious sixth form center which comprises a computer suite, a sixth form only cafe and a large space for students to relax and revise. The sixth form center is attached to the old science building, which has been a fixture of the school for many years. However, in the last term the school built the new Ballance Building, named after a past headmaster, which added 26 new multipurpose large teaching rooms, 4 labs and staff rooms for many departments. The Ballance Building replaced a connecting corridor between the two parts of the old science building. All the subjects that used to be taught in Broadfield house and Classics are now taught in the Ballance Building as well as science on levels one and two in the new laboratories. Also on the Broadfield site are 4 multipurpose tennis courts, also used for hockey, netball and football, and rugby when it is particularly wet.

On the other site, known as "main school," where the majority of the original buildings are. The main school buildings house many classrooms, teaching the humanities, RS, modern languages (there is a fully kitted language lab) and Food Technology. Also in the main school building are staff rooms, a large library with a Sixth form study area, a large communal staff room, a concert hall, a sports hall and the most recent addition, a new gym. The FT room has 10 workstations with all the appropriate pots and pans, an oven and a microwave each and has recently been expanded to withstand the influx of pupils entering the school.

An art and design block was added to the main school. On the ground floor, Design Technology is taught in the three classrooms and computer suites, and also a large Design Technology lab where large projects take place and the DT club is based. On the first floor, accessible from outside the modern languages and FT rooms, is the Art Department. Rooms 29, 30, 31, The Darkroom are all found here. Rooms 30 and 31 share the same large, open-plan space, flooded with natural light. The Darkroom is found under the mezzanine and an Staff Office connects Rooms 30&31 to Room 29 which is also accessible from the main Art Corridor. Room 29, although smaller, takes a smaller number of pupils and has several pottery wheels.

Behind the main school building is the Hamlin Building. The Hamlin Building is entirely devoted to the teaching of maths. There are eight rooms numbered H1-H8. H1-H4 are found downstairs, and H5-H8 are all upstairs. A small seating are is also located downstairs. Further behind the Hamlin Building is the new indoor swimming pool, which uses UV light over chlorine, the DofE block, spare classrooms (part of the DofE block labelled D1 and D2) and the memorial garden where the students congregate on Remembrance Day.

Offsite, the school owns the large playing field complex Hartswood in nearby Woodhatch, where all home matches in most sports are played. The students take a short bus journey provided by the school to Hartswood on assigned game day. Nearby Reigate Saint Mary's church plays a key role in student life. Every student goes to the church once a week in place of assembly, where the chaplain and a team of 2-3 students operate an assembly with the option to pray at the end but without any religious teaching during the speeches. The nearby primary school Reigate Saint Mary's is a feeder school to RGS and also owned by Reigate Grammar School.