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Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy (KSHSSA), formerly 'Kesteven and Sleaford High School' (KSHS), is a selective school with academy status for girls aged between eleven and sixteen and girls and boys between sixteen and eighteen, located on Jermyn Street in the small market town of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, close to Sleaford railway station. ==History== Sleaford and Kesteven High School Ltd. was founded by a group of local businessmen and housed in 62 Southgate, a town-house constructed by local architect and builder Charles Kirk for himself in 1850.〔Pawley 1996, p. 119〕〔("No. 62 Kesteven and Girls' High School, Southgate, Sleaford (HER number 64697)" ), ''Heritage Gateway''. Retrieved 22 March 2015.〕 When teaching commenced, on 5 May 1902,〔''Lincolnshire Echo'', 5 May 1902, p. 3, col. 5〕 the headmistress, Margaret Kate Lewer, presided over 23 pupils, including 8 boarders; by 1909, 62 girls were on roll and over the next quarter of a century, the numbers at the school increased to 350.〔 Run by a board of nine directors with W. V. R. Fane of Fulbeck Hall as chair, the school operated independently until it was taken over by the local education authority in 1919.〔〔"Sleaford High School for Girls", ''Lincolnshire Echo'', 29 January 1903, p. 3; ''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire'', 1919, p. 505〕 As the school increased in size, buildings were added to its grounds. The first were wooden huts, installed shortly after the end of the First World War, which provided the school with an assembly hall, office space and classrooms. A brick block was completed in 1924, followed by an extension to the original house three years later.〔Edmonds and Venn 1977, p. 95〕 The County Council planned to rebuild the school in 1930, but this never came to fruition; instead, the school had to wait for prefabricated classrooms to be added in 1946–7.〔Edmonds and Venn 1977, pp. 95–96〕 The former Urban District Council offices at Jermyn Street were also purchased by the Council and converted into classrooms for the school.〔Edmonds and Venn 1977, pp. 96〕 The Education Act 1944 abolished fees for state schools and standardised entrance examinations. As a result, KSHS wound down its preparatory school during the mid-1940s and the County Selection Examination was used for all admissions.〔Edmonds and Venn 1977, p. 59〕 By the early 1950s, there were 330 pupils by 20 staff at the school.〔 In 1952, as part of the school's golden jubilee celebrations, staff and pupils at the school proposed purchasing land behind the school house. Owned by British Railways, the firm eventually agreed a price of £750; over a three year period, the school raised the funds through donations from parents, staff and local people. The playing fields were eventually purchased, but delays meant that they were not opened until 1962.〔Edmonds and Venn 1977, p. 67〕 In 1957, the Council proposed erecting new classrooms and laboratories on the site of some disused air-raid shelters located within the grounds. Over the next decade, a series of new buildings were completed around the site, creating a hall, dining room, music, art and staff rooms, and a classroom block, which were completed in 1968.〔Edmonds and Venn 1977, pp. 67–68〕 In 2014, the governors of Carre's Grammar School announced their intention to bid for conversion to a multi-Academy trust and became a coeducational, selective school on a new site; in February 2015, Kesteven and Sleaford High School announced its intention to join the proposed trust, a moved welcomed by Carre's. On 1 September 2015, the school officially became part of the Robert Carre Multi-Academy Trust, which would see the schools operate on their sites sharing staff and facilities. KSHSSA's chair of Governors, Robin Baker, became a trustee prompting his replacement as chair by Deborah Hopkins. The headteacher, Craig Booker, also resigned.〔 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「Kesteven and Sleaford High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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