[5] There are also House arts events including dance, fine arts, music, filmmaking [6] and House Drama plays which are written by year 12 students (aged 16 and 17) and performed by year 10 students (aged 14 and 15).
The winning house in each competition is awarded a certain number of points, which are accrued during the academic year.
Students try to raise as much money as possible for this charity through sponsored events and activities during the school year.
The Luker site, at one end of Buckingham Road was formerly Newbury County Girls' Grammar School.
Whilst several proposals for St. Bartholomew's were considered, the final application involved completely rebuilding the school, with access provided through Fifth Road.
[9] Both former sites enjoyed large playing fields, tennis courts and sports changing rooms.
The new school still retains a large playing field, and since the completion of phase two of the Ad Lucem project possesses a sizeable Multi-Use Games Area.
In January 2014 the planned extension to the Patterson block was complete, allowing more space for the Sixth Form and a much expanded hall.
Patterson: PE and Performing Arts (including Drama, Dance, Music as well as Berkshire Maestros lessons).
The school was founded in 1466 from the legacy of Henry Wormestall who set aside £12 2s 4d annually for "teching gramar scole of the whiche that toune hath grete nede".
In 1634 he left and led 100 Wiltshire men to found the town of Newbury, Massachusetts on the estuary of what became the Parker river on America's east coast, near Boston.
In 1849 a new body of trustees rebuilt the Litten and revived the school which opened with 60 boys.
In 1885 the charity commissioners agreed to the provision of new buildings in Enborne Road, for 150 pupils including 20 boarders.
After World War I he named four school houses after ex-pupils who had died in the 1914-8 period, three of them killed in action.
There were older-style features – teachers wore gowns, the head master could still use the cane and games were restricted to cricket and rugby.
The Newbury girls grammar school opened in 1904 in the technical institute in Northbrook Street.