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Adcote School is an independent day and boarding school for girls, located in the village of Little Ness, northwest of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. The school was founded in 1907, and is set in a Grade I listed country house built in 1879 for Rebecca Darby, the widow of Alfred Darby I (1807–52) and a great niece of Abraham Darby. The Darbys were the iron-master family who built Ironbridge. The school has a Junior School that takes girls aged 5 to 11, and the Senior School for girls aged 11 to 16 and a Sixth Form takes girls from 16–19. The school is a registered charity. The school is a member of the Girls School Association, the Independent Schools Association, the Boarding School Association and the Independent Schools Council. In 2012, the school won the Independent Schools Association 'Award for Excellence', reflecting whole school achievement in independent education. In January 2013, the Department for Education ranked Adcote fourth in England in its A Level performance tables. In 2014, the school was awarded the Gold Award by the Mayor of Shrewsbury and Shrewsbury Town Council, recognising the school’s “outstanding contribution to the community”. In 2015, the school was shortlisted in the national TES Independent School Awards; the school had previously been shortlisted in 2011 and 2014. In 2014, the school announced plans to expand its boarding accommodation by over 100 beds and to develop new facilities on site, due to overseas investment that the school had received. The school established an international office in Birmingham with two overseas offices in Africa at Lagos and in Asia at Beijing. As of April 2015 the School is in the process of completing (or has completed) the construction of three new purpose-built boarding houses, new classrooms, a sports hall, administration block as well as a new Science Centre. ==History== The school was founded on 18 January 1907 by Mrs Amy Gough, with two-day pupils and five boarders in Glenmore House in the village of Doseley near Wellington, Shropshire. The school grew quickly and the roll was thirty-one after two years. In 1915 the school moved into the larger Innage House in Shifnal. The numbers of boarders doubled and two years later a second boarding house was needed. In 1919 the school moved again to a Georgian mansion in Shifnal called Haughton Hall,〔'A gentry estate over seven centuries, by Sylvia Watts : Haughton, Shifnal'. Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society, 73 (1998), p 44-51. ISSN 01435175〕 with room for 45 boarders and staff. In 1926 the Old Girls Association was established. In 1927 a private company was formed for the purchase of Adcote in Little Ness. The school was filled to capacity with 72 boarders. During the depression the school maintained its numbers with never fewer than 50 boarders. By 1937 the numbers had risen again and the following year plans were drawn up to convert the stables and other outbuildings into classrooms, music rooms and laboratories. The Second World War halted the plans but another building, "The Mount", was taken up in Baschurch to accommodate another 16 children. By 1947 both schools were filled to capacity and waiting lists were in place until 1951. In 1954 the junior school moved to Aston Hall near Oswestry, which then returned to Adcote in 1968. The school continued to grow and the Adcote Educational Trust〔http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/SHOWCHARITY/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=528407&SubsidiaryNumber=0< Charity Commission Entry〕 was established in 1964. Since then the school has been administered by a board of governors. In 2007 the school celebrated its centenary, and it continues to flourish to the present day.〔(history of Adcote School by Rachel Lowe; ISBN 0-9512414-0-0 Published by the Adcote Old Girls' Association, 1987. )〕 Recent developments include the increased provision of ICT facilities, the refurbishment of the boarding accommodation and a new multi-fuel heating system for the school. The school roll has considerably grown in size in recent years, both in boarding and day pupils.〔http://www.adcoteschool.co.uk〕 The school was a runner up in the 2011 'Independent School of the Year' award and won the 2012 'Award for Excellence' from the Independent Schools Association. In 2014, the school was awarded the Gold Award by the Mayor of Shrewsbury and Shrewsbury Council, recognising the school’s “outstanding contribution to the community”. In 2014, the school announced plans to expand its boarding accommodation by over 100 beds and to develop new facilities on site, due to overseas investment that the school had received. 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「Adcote School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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