Our Facilities
We are unique in the Preston area, in that we have been able to acquire funding of over £10 million to enhance our school facilities. St. Vincent’s Hall is state of the art and boasts some of the most up-to-date facilities in the country, including a fitness suite and dance studio. This area has been equipped with the very latest training equipment, which is specifically adapted to suit the needs of young people. The Sports Hall itself can be compared to the size of four badminton courts, which also includes four netted cricket lanes and is able to cater for basketball, netball, gymnastics, indoor hockey and five-a-side football. The Technology rooms are spacious and superbly equipped. In addition, there are six I.C.T suites to support pupils’ studies.
Corpus Christi also has a full size, third generation floodlit all-weather pitch which is, again, laid to the highest specifications. The floodlights mean that coaching can take place into the evening. In addition, the grass pitches and netball courts provide superb facilities for a wide variety of team games and individual sports. We were the first school in Preston to have 11 v 11, 9 v 9 and 7 v 7 pitches.
As part of the refurbishment of the original gym and changing rooms we have created a new resource and learning centre and an award winning restaurant, Il Cenacolo. All departments are now suited and classrooms are fitted with the latest specialist equipment, including 85” digital interactive screens, white boards and visualisers. New Art and Music centres have been created.
More recently we have installed a new food technology classroom installed with brand new appliances and air conditioning. The old food rooms have been converted to a new chaplaincy room where the chaplains can meet with pupils and an impressive new chapel which is used for our weekly masses, services and liturgies, while the Sports Hall continues to serve our needs for whole school Masses and assemblies.
Our Jack McLaughlin Centre, located at the front of the school, is available for meetings, conferences, recruitment days, team building, product launches, staff training and corporate events, and is an ideal business venue. The dedicated building provides award winning catering, ample secured free parking, air conditioning and IT facilities with various rooms to accommodate up to a maximum of 100 delegates depending on your choice of layout. The Centre is located only minutes away from junction 32 of the M6 and close to the main west coast railway line; the centre is easily accessible to those traveling by car or on public transport.
