These were four classrooms (two blocks of two) on a plaza between the Tennis Courts and the Old Gym. Like the Language and Maths Blocks, these were West Riding Classrooms, albeit of a different design. They were appropriated from Todwick C of E Primary and Garforth Old Secondary schools and seem to have arrived for 1969. They make up part of the second wave of building for the merged Dinnington High School.

The Tennis Court Buildings were shabby constructions, and each had an overhanging roof supported by a metal pole (much swung upon to the anguish of teachers and structural engineers). A surviving example can be seen at Fence School, on the road between Swallownest and Woodhouse. Like most of the rest of the '60s builds, they were wood-clad prefab structures.

They seem to have been older than the '50s WR classrooms, which is possible given their previous lives. Or they may just not have been looked after as well.

The western block was used for maths in the '80s. Martin Brown adds: "I believe the eastern Tennis Court classrooms were Home Ec, as I remember having lessons there in my first 2 years, though we were so bad they wouldn't let us cook - we had to do macramé (tying knots in string as far as I could see)."

By the '90s. the Tennis Court Buildings were primarily used for Religion and English, although they also hosted Geography and presumably Classics lessons. They had a three figure designation beginning with 6, as I recall (or perhaps 16).

On the evening of Saturday 28th May 1994, the western-most block (Religion) was burnt down by arsonists, who'd set fire to petrol in a wall-mounted bin. It was the second serious fire at the school in three weeks, a wooden garage having been torched. £50,000 of damage was caused, with a loss of £8,500 worth of furniture and £6,000 worth of books and the like. The same method was later used with even more dramatic effect on Lower School.

The remaining block (English) was deliberately pulled down after the rebuilding of Lower School.

The English block was one of the first places to get white-boards (the pens never worked, of course). The easternmost room belonged to Miss Marriot until she left. I'm not sure who took it on subsequently. The western room was occupied by Mrs Gunn, and later Miss Wood.

The English block is pictured on the New Gym page.