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Belfast High School is a Voluntary Grammar School located at Jordanstown in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.〔 It lies within the North Eastern Education and Library Board area. In March 2012 it has been recognised as one of only six post-primary schools in Northern Ireland to be in the top 10% for performance at both GCSE and A-level. In May 2007, Belfast High was awarded Specialist Status in the field of Languages, one of only 13 schools to receive such a status.〔(Specialist School Status ), Belfast High School website. Retrieved 30 June 2012〕 It is consistently awarded the International Schools Award, once from 2008–11 and again from 2011–14, and it is one of only five schools in the UK and the only one in Northern Ireland to win The European Language Label Award from the European Commission. These awards have culminated in the school receiving half a million pounds in additional funding for the study of languages. Belfast High School is academically selective, meaning that all pupils wishing to gain admission to the school must sit a specially designed exam and attain over a set boundary in order to matriculate. In 2011, 59% of applicants to the school were admitted. == History == The institution now known as Belfast High School opened in 1854. In 1874, it moved to new (premises ) at Glenravel Street, Belfast. Since the school was founded, there have been 7 head teachers: *(1854–1867) John Pyper He established the school as Pyper Academy, before changing its name to the Belfast Mercantile Academy shortly thereafter. *(1867–1917) James Pyper, the school's longest-serving headmaster. He was responsible for the building of what the Ulster Star described as "Mr Pyper's splendid new seminary"〔The Witness, 4 September 1874 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~econnolly/twextracts/tw18740900.html〕 in Glenravel Street. *(1917–1937) Spring Pyper *(1938–1966) Dr Robert Harte, who changed the school's name to its current title. Under his headship the school purchased Ardilea House, a large 19th century villa in Jordanstown, in 1953. Between then and 1963, when the entire school re-located from Glenravel Street, its then Vice-Principal, Harry Towell, headed a small suburban campus at the site. The house now forms the administration block, containing the staff room, sick bay, and offices of the principal, her secretary, the bursar and vice-principal. Dr Harte suffered a severe stroke in 1964 and his son acted as temporary head until the appointment of Mr Dunlop in 1966. Dr Harte was a Doctor of Philosophy and an eminent classical scholar. *(1966–1987) Samuel H Dunlop, who saw the building of a new science block (1970), the closure of Somerton House (the school's preparatory department) in 1981 and the enlargement of the school library (1980s) *(1987–2006) Stephen R Hilditch, who saw the Harte Building opened in the 1990s to house Home Economics, Careers, Technology, ICT and a science lab, the refurbishment of the science block (2001–2003) and the refurbishment and enlargement of the Music Department *(2006–present) Lynn F Gormley 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「Belfast High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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