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Abraham Moss Community School is an all-through community school for children aged 5 to 16 located on a 19 hectare site situated on Crescent Road in the Crumpsall/Cheetham Hill district of North Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, next to the Abraham Moss Metrolink station. The comples also includes a leisure centre, the district library and a 230-person theatre complex. The centre also hosts other tenants mainly in the public, voluntary and community sectors. It is named after Abraham Moss, Lord Mayor of Manchester (1953–54). ==History== The Abraham Moss opened in 1973 as a multipurpose integrated centre with lower school, and upper school seamlessly joining to a FE college, a proposed library and a leisure centre. The first principal was Ron Mitson, with Dave Shapcott being head of school. It aimed to teach through independent resource based learning- staff developed and pasted up their own materials which were then taken to the printroom, where the masters were allocated an accession number and the printroom staff would print the required number of copies on offset litho machines. It was referred to as a school without books. The building was featured in a DES best practice building report. It was one of six such centres〔N.B. Two others were Sidney Stringer where Estelle Morris taught, and the Stantonbury Campus.〕 built around that time that were characterised by shared-use area, collaboration across phases with an inclusive approach to the pupils, their welfare and developing their potential. They all had innovative curriulums and purpose designed buildings.〔Abraham Moss High School, Information to Assistant Principal, Head of Lower School Applicants letter, March 2012〕 It was built at a cost of ₤2.472 m. Manchester City Libraries moved the stock from Crumpsall Library in 1974. The stock transfer, and subsequent change in the reader profile was subject to a study in 1979 published in the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. In effect, the number of younger readers increased by 88% but the over 65s stopped coming. In 2012 to answer the shortage of primary places in North Manchester, the Moss became an all-through 5-16 school, with a two form primary intake. The first reception class children arrived in September 2012.〔 The head teacher David Watchorn has taught at the school since it opened in 1973, and became head in 1984. The 2003 Ofsted report reports He has been a force for stability and continuity throughout the school's history, not least when the school "kept going" in the immediate aftermath of the devastating fire of 1997; but he has also grasped the need for change and development and in recent years has helped to fix the staff's attention on the need to raise standards of attainment.〔Ofsted Report 2003, 105560 Abraham Moss High School〕 However despite Watchorn's distinguished and distinctive service to the school and the young people of the area, he was suspended in July 2013 because he publicly disagreed with the City Council about some aspects of the primary school development. It should be noted that Manchester City Council's relationship with its heads has often been stormy and it has a history of suspending headteachers,〔(Veteran headteacher in storm over reform plans is suspended ) July 2013〕 Gillian Houghton, a former vice-principal at Co-operative Academy in Higher Blackley (Plant Hill) has been appointed principal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abraham Moss Community School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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