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Carlton le Willows Academy (usually informally known as Carlton le Willows) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located within Gedling in the English county of Nottinghamshire. The Academy is situated on the edge of a residential area of Carlton, to the east of Nottingham. It has occupied a spacious campus of 32 acres on the edge of the greenbelt next to the A612, overlooking the Trent Valley since its first incarnation as a grammar school in 1954. The school, as it is composed today, was formed through an amalgamation in 1973 of four secondary institutes located around the Gedling District as the tripartite system of education ended in England and Wales. Two of which, were located in separate buildings on the Wood Lane site, and are now currently occupied by the Academy. Carlton le Willows also established a Sixth Form centre for students in Years 12 and 13 in July 2009. The number of pupils at the school has grown exponentially over the latter half of the 20th century, from 540 students in 1954 to around 1350 in the lower school, and around 250 in the sixth form as of 2014. The school serves a substantial area of the Nottingham urban conurbation with an intake stretching from the city centre, through some of the largest suburbs to the outlying villages. Carlton le Willows pupils generally enroll in a mix of around ten General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) certificates with a selection of Business and Technology Education Council (BTEC) courses throughout Years Ten (14-15) and Eleven (15-16). And have a choice to study 3 or 4 A-Levels or further BTECs in the Sixth Form (ages 16–18). An Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) inspection for 2009-2011 designated Carlton le Willows as an 'outstanding' school. ==History== The school owes its "rather evocative name" (according to Sir Nikolaus Pevsner) to St. Paul's Church, Carlton-in-the-Willows, roughly four miles away from the current site. The church was commissioned by Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon in 1885 and was completed in 1891; Herbert would later have a house named after him when Carlton le Willows Grammar School was established some 65 years later.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=House Drama 1962 )〕 The idea of such a school, along with a secondary technical establishment, had long been petitioned for by the residents of Carlton in the years leading up to an event concerning the deliverance of the Butler Education Act in May 1948, where it was proposed that both be built on the same spacious site of Burton Road, backing on to Wood Lane.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Setting the Scene )〕 Initially, plans went ahead for the construction of a grammar school in 1952, with county architect E.W. Roberts' architectural designs permitting the comfortable accommodation of 540 students.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Building )〕 The first pupils were enrolled in 1953, but were educated at separate locations due to ongoing construction at the Wood Lane site; the girls at the West Bridgford Grammar School and the boys at the Henry Mellish Grammar School.〔 Indeed, the recruitment of these students so soon after the Second World War have led some to contend that Carlton le Willows was the first grammar school in England to be established post-1945; most believe it was certainly the first in Nottinghamshire. The school saw an expansion of its playing fields in 1954, with the acquisition of several acres of land previously owned by the Smith banking family through their ownership of the Grade II listed Gedling House, which is a mere 0.3 miles away from campus. Educationalist Lord Wolfenden officially opened the school in 1956, in the same year that the school cafeteria had enlarged to accommodate a growing intake of pupils.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Opening Day - The School in 1956 )〕〔 The aforementioned secondary technical school, later known as Carlton le Willows Technical Grammar School was also completed in September 1962 and operated on the same site as the main grammar school, allowing for greater 'campus organisation' through the sharing of academic resources and equipment. It initially admitted 209 pupils, whom were taught by 15 members of staff at the time of the school's official opening in November 1963.〔 1973 saw the amalgamation of the grammar and technical schools, alongside two secondary modern schools as the era of the tripartite education system concluded; Carlton le Willows became a comprehensive school. Chandos Street Secondary School, located in Netherfield, had been founded in 1906 and remained a boys school until the year of the merger; similarly, Carlton Girls' Secondary Modern School, founded in the same year, was gender exclusive. The latter's building, located on Station Road, was annexed by Carlton le Willows until 1988 to ease the encumbrance on the Wood Lane site with regard to the large amount of newly enrolled students brought upon by the union between the 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「Carlton le Willows Academy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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