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King's Ely, which was renamed from The King's School in March 2012,〔The School's Terms and Conditions and the Companies House registration would suggest that the School's legal name remains "The King's School, Ely" (【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/8210aa86ca97a937d26ed4d69bdefa06/compdetails )〕 is a coeducational independent day and boarding school in the cathedral city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. It was founded in 970 A.D., making it one of the oldest schools in the world, though it was given its Royal Charter by King Henry VIII in 1541. The school consists of a nursery, a reception class, junior school, senior school, and an international school. It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. The school has produced a number of notable alumni, including Edward the Confessor, King of England,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=St Edward the confessor )〕 Lord Browne of Madingley, erstwhile chairman of British Petroleum and James Bowman, countertenor. The senior school was ranked the 162nd independent school for GCSE results and 210th for A Level results in 2014 (see §Curriculum). King's Ely has featured in the local news for its sports results, and has produced a fourth-place Olympic athlete, Goldie Sayers, who represented Great Britain in the 2008 Summer Olympics, coming fourth. Much of the senior school uses the historic monastic buildings of the cathedral, and major school events and weekly services are held there. One of the boys' boarding houses, School House, is claimed to be the oldest residential building in Europe. In its entirety, the school has over 950 pupils.〔 The school has a small campus, with parts of the school in a number of buildings distributed around the centre of the city. However, all its sections make use of certain resources, such as sports facilities and the Monastic Barn. ==History== King's Ely is one of seven schools established, or in some cases, including this one, re-endowed and renamed, by King Henry VIII in 1541 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The school has its origins in the religious house founded in Ely by St. Etheldreda in 673 AD. Before 1720 it was called the Ely Cathedral Grammar School. The school became co-educational in 1970, and in 1973, Queen Elizabeth II came to the school to celebrate the anniversary of the monastery.〔 The school keeps a strong link with the cathedral by which it is overshadowed. A teaching institution has been on the site since 970, making it the seventh oldest school in the United Kingdom.〔 An article in ''The Illustrated London News'' from 1882 provided the following which showed the state of the school at that time: "The head master, after some allusion to the former history of the school (in which Edward the Confessor had been educated, and which, in the seventy years after its new foundation by Henry VIII, had developed, into a school of upwards of 300 boys, among whom were many of distinction), recounted the honours achieved in the past year. Among these were successes in the Civil Service and Indian Civil Service examination, an exhibition at Worcester College, Oxford, a first in the May examination at Queens' College, Cambridge, and a second at Peterhouse." During World War I, 24 Old Eleans lost their lives and a Roll of Honour is located in School House. Staff and pupils gather annually on 11 November for a memorial service to remember those killed. In his memoirs from 1955, the Reverend Christopher Campling described the school's state when he became chaplain. "Academic standards were not high, but a few boys gained admission to Oxbridge each year. The music in the school was especially good, because the choristers of the cathedral choir stayed on after their voices had broken." The first girls were admitted in 1970 and the school has since become fully coeducational. In 2004, the school appointed the its first female Head, Susan Freestone, took over from Richard Youdale who had been headmaster for 12 years. 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「King's Ely」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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