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Colyton Grammar School (commonly abbreviated to 'CGS') is a co-educational grammar school located in the village of Colyford in East Devon, England and teaches students from years 7 to 13 (ages 11 to 18). The school has been classified by Ofsted as 'Outstanding' in three successive reports. The school has an open campus style setting situated on a site of over in total. There have been a number of improvements to the site over recent years, including the construction of a new sixth form study centre, music centre, sports hall, chemistry block and arts centre as well as a host of other renovation and landscaping works to improve the continuity of outside areas. Recently, 2014-15 the Cottrill hall has been rebuilt, with several separate exam rooms, more changing rooms at the sports centre have been built . The School has 826 students and just over 50 teaching staff and a similar number of support staff. Paul Evans became headteacher in 2008, succeeding Barry Sindall who held the position of headteacher for 18 years. Sadly, at the end of the 2014-15 academic year Paul Evans will be leaving. ==History== The school was founded in 1546, by a group of twenty yeomen and merchants who bought some land from the crown "for the benefit of Colyton". Their first act was to endow a Grammar School "for the goodly and virtuous education of children in Colyton for ever". The school was first situated in a single room over the porch of the parish church until the Feoffees hired a room in the town and the school was moved. In 1612, the school moved to the Church House, which had been enlarged by having another storey built on to it. The first headmaster on record was William Hull, who joined the school in 1603, for a salary of £5 a year. The first headmistress – Mrs. Susanah Stokes – was appointed in 1792. It was only in 1875 that the school was established as a day and boarding school with its current name – Colyton Grammar School. On 20 June 1876, school population reached record low of just one pupil. Numbers steadily increased again and by August 1884, there were 33 pupils. School was closed in 1900, due to a lack of pupils. It remained closed for 5 years until 1905, when it was re-opened with a new headmaster. In 1913, a change in the school's constitution allows girls to be admitted for the first time and the school officially becomes a co-educational grammar school. A Board of Governors – 15 people – was instituted in 1914. In 1929, the school moved to its present site in Colyford. 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「Colyton Grammar School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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