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The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, commonly referred to as The Vaughan, is a leading Roman Catholic public school in Holland Park, Kensington and Chelsea, London, England. It was formerly a grammar school and one of several selective Catholic schools in England, and is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. As of 2011, the headmaster is Paul Stubbings. The school has approximately 950 students. The A2-Level pass rate in 2006 was 100% (National Average: 97%), and over 95% of the grades were A-C. The average number of UCAS points per candidate was 359. The school is a school for practising Catholics and the school only accepts practising Catholics into it 〔(Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School admission policy 2015 )〕 The school teaches choral and instrumental music in addition to the usual academic subjects. The school does not select first year pupils on academic prowess, but accepts pupils who are practising Catholics. The school is renowned for the quality of both its choral and instrumental music, with a significant number of pupils who go on to Oxford and Cambridge, reading music. == History == After the death of the third Archbishop of Westminster, Herbert, Cardinal Vaughan in 1903 an appeal was set up to raise funds to found a boys' school to be named as a memorial to him; some £20,000 was subscribed. The school was founded in 1914; the founders included Viscount Fitzalan, the Duke of Norfolk and the Marquis of Ripon. At first a private school, it became a state-funded grammar school in 1944. The Vaughan began to take pupils of all abilities in 1977 and became an all-ability school. Girls were first admitted to the sixth form in 1977. The school is now voluntary-aided and draws pupils chiefly, but not exclusively from Inner London. The Vaughan School opened its doors in the Victorian Building now known as Addison Hall, as a private school, to twenty-nine boys on 21 September 1914, appointing Canon Driscoll as the first Headmaster. In the next decade the school expanded and it was decided to seek recognition by the Board of Education for the grant as an independent day school. A piece of land, some in North Wembley, was also purchased for playing fields, which were later exchanged for the present site at Twickenham, adjacent to the international Rugby Football Union ground Shortly after Driscoll's death, Canon J.G. Vance became headmaster in 1928. During his term of office the school was temporarily evacuated to Beaumont College, Windsor during the Second World War. Thirty-nine old boys who were killed in the War are named in the School's Roll of Honour, including the first VC of the War in the Royal Air Force, Flying Officer Donald Edward Garland. After the war fees were abolished, and the school became voluntary-aided. 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「Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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