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St Thomas More Catholic School is a Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in Bedford, England. The school is located on Tyne Crescent in the Brickhill area of north Bedford. 'Tommy More' (as the school is affectionately known by staff and pupils) has no specific catchment area, but attracts students from all over Bedford and the surrounding villages. ==History== Following the 1967 Plowden Report, Bedfordshire LEA decided to implement the three-tier education system of lower, middle and upper schools in the county. This created a need for a new catholic upper school (ages 13 to 18) in Bedford. During 1977 and 1978, as the new school buildings in Brickhill were not ready for occupation, St Thomas More Upper School started out in the Westbourne Centre next to Westbourne School in Queens Park. Science classes were taken at Westfield school in Queens Park. The pupils were driven there by school bus. St Thomas More Catholic School was formally opened in 1979 by Baroness Shirley Williams (then Secretary of State for Education and Science). The dedication Mass was conducted by Bishop Charles Alexander Grant (then Bishop of Northampton). When St Bedes Middle school closed in 2006, academic years 7 and 8 were transferred to St Thomas More School, along with some of the teaching staff. In July 2008 the school was awarded specialist status in the area of Humanities, and became a Humanities College. The Federation of Bedford Catholic Schools' Governing Body launched a consultation on whether to convert its four schools into a federated academy trust.〔http://www.st-thomasmore.org.uk/page/?title=Academy+Consultation&pid=58〕 The school converted to academy status as part of the St Francis of Assisi Academies Trust in April 2013. From September 2014 the school began admitting pupils from year 7 (age 11), therefore converting from an upper school to a full secondary school. The name of the school is derived from St Thomas More, an elder statesman from the sixteenth century. He is mainly remembered for his principled refusal to accept King Henry VIII's claim to be the supreme head of the Church of England, which decision ended his political career and led to his execution as a traitor. He was canonized by the Catholic Church under Pope Pius XI in 1935, and was later declared the patron saint of lawyers and statesmen. 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「St Thomas More Catholic School, Bedford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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