Gosforth Academy's present building is actually two buildings; one building has 2 floors and the other 3 and a half floors (the half being a Mezzanine Level which is currently used as an art gallery and a computer suite). This difference in buildings can be clearly seen when you are crossing between the two via stairs. The room numbers for the bottom floor begin with a zero; the middle floor room numbers begin with a one; and the top floor room numbers begin with two. The 2002 building cost a total of £9 million. Companies that assisted with the construction of the 2002 building included Newcastle City Design Department, Multicare and Desco. Desco handled the Mechanical and Electrical services for Phase 3, costing £3 million. The school is also part of the "
Building Schools for the Future" Initiative. In 2009 plans to extend the back of the school with a new sports hall were accepted. Building commenced soon after, and was unaffected by the change in the Building Schools for the Future policy. A multimillion-pound gym full of
P.E. equipment was built ready for use by September 2011. This is accompanied by a 9-court sports hall.
Facility list The school has: • 15 Science laboratories • 12 ICT rooms (some assigned to a particular subject) • 2 large libraries (Goodfellow and Cousins) • A large art department • A
sixth form common room • A smaller year 11 common room • A fully equipped Drama studio • 3 small Music practice rooms • A dance studio • One Gym • One Indoor Sports Court (
badminton,
basketball &
football) • One Indoor 9 court Sports Hall (
badminton,
basketball,
hockey &
football) • 2 Outdoor Sports Courts (
tennis,
hockey, basketball,
netball, football) • One Weight-Training room. • A Student Support Base, which also contains a police base for the area. The school also has facilities for young people with visual impairment. The two libraries are the Cousins Library, a new library which opened on 8 September 2008 a library for years 9, 10 and 11, and the Old Library, known as the Learning Resource Centre or LRC for
sixth form. The school is able to teach many languages; their mainstream teaching for Modern European languages is concentrated in
French,
German,
Italian and
Spanish, and also offer
Mandarin as a GCSE or A-Level subject.
Computer facilities There are over 50 computers in total in the libraries and 12 dedicated computer rooms. Most of the classrooms have interactive whiteboards. A combination of wired and wireless networks allowing teachers to use their laptops anywhere. The register in the school is taken via computer, using a
Student information system, called
SIMS.net, which uses the main PC system. The school also utilises a
Virtual learning environment, under the Frog platform. In the past the school had used a
Bromcom hand-held student information system for taking register and had computer workstations provided by
Elonex Systems.
Sports department The current Sport@Gosforth building was officially opened by former students
Alan Shearer and
Kathryn Tickell on 3 October 2011. The school had been planning to replace the previous indoor sports courts with a modern sports facility for many years. The previous indoor sports courts which had earned the nickname "The Shed" by students and teachers alike in the school was demolished in early 2010. Some of the plans were to have 8 new sports courts within the new building and provision for "all-weather pitches". The current building is a 2-storey sports hall, activities suite and classroom extension to south and west elevation to existing school, with a synthetic turf pitch and 6 × 15 m high lighting columns. The planning application was submitted on 25 November 2008 by AURA Ltd, a local education partnership company in which the council has a 10% share, and was conditionally granted on 5 March 2009. Building work by contractors
Sir Robert McAlpine commenced late in the summer of 2009, on the all-weather pitch, and the all-new sports facilities were completed by summer 2011. The synthetic turf pitch was first used on 2 December 2009, and is available for lettings out of school hours. In total the new facilities include a 6 court Sports Hall, new changing rooms, a Fitness Suite, a
Climbing wall, a master classroom and a large flexible learning space. These new facilities have been given the name Sport@Gosforth. The
Newcastle Falcons rugby team and their Academy have linked up with the School in an apprenticeship scheme; in 2007 eight students joined the rugby academy for two years. As of 17 May 2025 the Falcons Ace scheme has had a Newcastle Falcons intake of 12.
England and Newcastle Falcons player
Jamie Blamire was a product of this scheme. == Post-16 sixth form ==