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Bluecoat Academy is a Church of England voluntary aided secondary school in the Aspley area of Nottingham, England, dating back to 1706.〔Nottingham Bluecoat School, (The School's History ).〕 In 2007, the school had 1550 students aged six to eighteen, including 250 Sixth form students.〔Nottingham Bluecoat School, (Staff vacancies ).〕 Prior to receiving Academy status in January 2012, the school was titled The Nottingham Bluecoat School and Technology College.〔Department for Education and Skills, (establishment #22873 ).〕 Since 2003, the school has had two campuses, one in Aspley and one in Wollaton, and, since 2014, has sponsored the Bluecoat Beechdale Academy. ==History== The school was founded in 1706 as the first charity school in Nottingham, under the guidance of the then rector of St. Peter's Church, Timothy Fenton. Classes were taught in the porch of St. Mary's Church in the Lace Market area of Nottingham. On 1 May 1707, the school moved to St. Mary's Gate. In 1723, land that was given by William Thorpe on High Pavement in Weekday Cross was used and the school migrated there,〔Nottinghamshire History, An Itinerary of Nottingham: (High Pavement (2), Weekday Cross ).〕 remaining there for over a century. In 1855, the school moved to a purpose-built building on Mansfield Road in Nottingham.〔 〕 The building is now the International Community Centre. A statue of a child in a latter-day Bluecoat uniform remains on the outside of the building. A road behind this site of the school is called Bluecoat Close. In the period between the two World Wars, the school became a Grammar School. During the 1960s fund-raising was undertaken to acquire new property and to construct a purpose-built new school to allow for expansion including on-site sports fields. In 1967, the school relocated to the current premises on Aspley Lane in Aspley, two miles to the east of Nottingham. This allowed the school to increase the intake from one class to two classes (from 30 students to 60) resulting in the number of the pupils increasing to around 350 over a period of about five years. At the same time, the school assumed voluntary aided school status. By 1978 the number of students had grown to 900 with the new status as a comprehensive school catering for eleven- to eighteen-year-olds. Two decades later, a further status change took place with the school being awarded Technology College status by the Department for Education and Skills enabling the school to receive additional funding for development Science, Mathematics and Information Technology education. In 2003, Bluecoat was "twinned" with,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nottingham.gov.uk/watsnew/press/view_article.asp?ReleaseID=2827 ) 〕 and then later took over the site of Margaret Glen-Bott School in the nearby Wollaton area. The site was renamed as The Nottingham Bluecoat School and Technology College: ''Wollaton Park Campus'' with the main Bluecoat site becoming the ''Aspley Lane Campus''. The two sites began to operate as a single school and share some administration resources including a single headteacher and principal for the two sites. 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「Nottingham Bluecoat Academy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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