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Bristol Free School (BFS) is a secondary free school that opened in Southmead,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.bristol.gov.uk/WardFinder/pdfs/southmeadmap-high.pdf )〕 Bristol, England in September 2011. It was one of the first wave of 24 new free schools to open in England that year. , BFS had 553 pupils. It is expanding by one cohort (of capacity 150 pupils) each September and by September 2016 it will have a total capacity for 750 pupils across Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. In addition, the school will open a Sixth Form in 2016.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.bristolfreeschool.org.uk/ )〕 It is located at former Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and Environment Agency offices, which were converted for use by the school. The school is governed by the Bristol Free School Trust, which is a partnership between the Russell Education Trust and a local campaign group called Parents Voice. The BFS Trust appoints governors to the school's local governing body, including the head teacher, a staff governor and two elected parent governors. Bristol Free School is secular and non-selective. The curriculum is broad with an emphasis on music and science. BFS was first inspected by Ofsted in February 2013, when it was given an overall judgement of Good, with Outstanding Leadership and Management, and Outstanding Pupil Behaviour and Safety. ==History== Bristol Free School was proposed following a 20-year history of parental campaigning in response to a perceived lack of suitable secondary school places in North Bristol.〔http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-14217163.html〕 The campaign group, Parents Voice,〔 wanted to open a secondary school either at an Adult Education Centre at Stoke Lodge,〔https://www.bristol.gov.uk/committee/2010/sc/sc006/0322_5.pdf〕 or on the former St Ursula's School site, to serve the Westbury-on-Trym, Stoke Bishop, Sneyd Park and Henleaze districts of north west Bristol which had no nearby state secondary school. However residents near Stoke Lodge wanted no development,〔https://www.bristol.gov.uk/committee/2011/ta/ta000/0118_4a.pdf〕 and Bristol City Council wanted to use St Ursula's for a primary school. Initial approval for the school's plan and business case was given by the Department for Education in November 2010. Final approval was given in May 2011. In January 2011, 417 members of the community signed a petition to ask Bristol City Council to allow a secondary school on the St Ursula's site.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A secondary school on the St Ursulas site )〕 Following this and other representations, Bristol City Council Cabinet gave an "agreement in principle" to allowing Bristol Free School to move to St Ursula's in 2012, in a split-site arrangement with a new Primary Academy.〔https://www.bristol.gov.uk/committee/2011/ua/ua000/0421_5.pdf〕 In July 2011, the school was granted planning permission to use a former Environment Agency and DEFRA site on Burghill Road, in the neighbouring area of Brentry within the Southmead electoral ward. This was expected to be a temporary site as the school anticipated moving to the St Ursula's site in September 2012. The Burghill Road site was earmarked to rehouse on a single site over 1,000 civil servants based in nearly 60 buildings in Bristol, prospectively saving more than £6 million per year. In July 2012 it was confirmed that Bristol Free School would remain at the further developed Brentry site. DEFRA held a 39 year lease on the site, which is owned by Bristol City Council. An £8 million contract was let by the Department for Education to refurbish existing buildings and build new buildings to support the expansion of the school from 2013. Total capital spending by the department to set up the school was £9.6 million, the largest amount amongst the first batch of fifteen free schools, plus £0.75 million of extra initial revenue funding. On the 25th of June, Bristol Free School opened its new building to students. At the end of its first year the school was featured in an ITV News report about Free Schools. 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「Bristol Free School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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