House block features an area dedicated to a specific subject. Most blocks have three floors, with the exception of the Patterson block which has two. Wormestall, the Sixth Form area, has three floors: a floor dedicated to computing and business studies; a floor encompassing the Sixth Form eatery and common room as well as teaching space for sociology, law and psychology; and a floor for the school's library. The facilities are spread out as following: Curnock: English, Classics, Maths, Arts including Photography, Film and Media Studies. Davis: Product Design, Graphics and Textiles, Humanities. Evers: Science, Modern Foreign Languages. Patterson: PE, Drama, Dance, Music (Including Berkshire Maestros lessons). History 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". St. Bartholomew's is therefore thought to be the 42nd oldest school in the UK still in existence. 1466 Male-only St. Bartholomew's Boys' Grammar School founded in a building near the junction of Pound Street and Bartholomew Street. Moved to Wormestall around 1880. 1904 Female-only Newbury County Girls Grammar School founded at the Newbury Technical Institute site in Northbrook Street. 1910 Female-only Newbury County Girls Grammar School moved to the Luker site on the Andover Road. 1966 The school celebrates quincentenary. School Pageant attended by Agatha Christie. 26 May 1972 Visit by Queen Elizabeth II, who opens Luker Hall. 1975 Newbury County Girls' Grammar School and St. Bartholomew's Boys' Grammar School merge to form the present-day comprehensive school. 1993 School receives second visit from Queen Elizabeth II September 2002 School designated as a Business and Enterprise College – a specialist school status 22 November 2010, opening of the new St. Bartholomew's School buildings for academic purposes. 30 March 2011, official opening of the new St Bartholomew's School building 1 September 2011, St Bartholomew's School gains academy status Narrative History The earliest mention of an established grammar school in Newbury is in 1548 when the school is recorded as being at the Litten Chapel, part of St Bartholomew's hospital between Newtown Road and Argyle Street. The hospital itself was established in the late 12th century and by 1548 had been affected by the dissolution of the monasteries. There is a much quoted earlier will of a cloth merchant, Henry Wormestall who in his will dated 1466 bequeathed funding to pay for a teacher.