|
St Thomas More High School is a Roman Catholic bilateral academy school located in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England.〔("St Thomas More High School" ), The Good Schools Guide〕 It caters for boys between the ages of 11 and 18 but has a mixed sixth form.〔("St Thomas More High School" ), DfES statistics〕 Around 1000 Students were on the roll in September 2007 (including 160 sixth-form students). The majority of pupils come from local Roman Catholic schools but the school does accept pupils from other Christian denominations. The school is located in the Diocese of Brentwood and the serving bishop is Rt. Revd. Thomas McMahon. The school's patron saint is St Thomas More, which is mainly celebrated annually on ''St Thomas More Day''. The school is bounded on two sides by playing fields, belonging to two neighbouring schools, while private housing and a dual carriageway border the other two sides. ==History== The school opened as a two-form entry school in 1960 with around 100-200 pupils and has progressively expanded. In September 1973 it was extended to become a four-form entry school and its status was changed to a bilateral school offering 30 selective and 115 non-selective places. Various building projects have taken place including a modern sixth-form block, which was completed in 1996. The school became grant-maintained on 1 September 1993, and the first sixth-form intake was admitted in September 1996. It was converted to voluntary-aided status in September 1999. There was an extensive refurbishment project, completed in autumn 2001, which provided the school with a new reception area, extra classrooms, a brand new art department and an advanced music room with individual practice facilities. A new technology block was built in 2003, complete with state-of-the-art facilities Former teacher David Sloan admitted in court to falsifying a reference presented to the Manpower employment agency in February 2002, having previously lost his job after stealing from the School.〔("Westcliff: Teacher forged reference" ), ''Gazette'', Newsquest Media Group, 5 April 2002〕 Former deputy head teacher and Head of RE Chris Danes, an author of best selling textbooks and fiction who has bipolar disorder and is now a writer and broadcaster, had to resign from the School in 1997 on the grounds of ill health and at the young age of 36. Danes maintains he retired from teaching after becoming dangerously ill in 1997, he believes largely because of the unsympathetic way he was treated at work. He talked candidly and movingly about this on a teacher's channel TV programme on mental health. Following protests by residents, in June 2003 the Council denied the School permission to install six 13-metre-high floodlights on the hockey pitch.〔("Westcliff: Victory in hockey protest" ), ''Gazette'', Newsquest Media Group, 26 June 2003〕 These were subsequently installed in 2007. St Thomas More became a specialist Mathematics and Computing College in September 2004,〔 and continues with the specialism today. Ex-headmaster Frank Keenan was awarded the OBE in 2005. The school celebrated its 50th Anniversary Jubilee in July 2011 and became an academy later that year. In 2013, it was announced that ex-headteacher Mr P Travis had decided to work elsewhere; at which time (then deputy headteacher) Mrs Gemma Ackred (née Nye) was appointed as Acting Headteacher and later proceeded to become the Headteacher in late 2013 after wide support from the students and staff. After which, Mr Phillip Maxfield became the deputy headteacher of the school. 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 High School for Boys」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|