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Stantonbury Campus is a secondary foundation school located in north Milton Keynes, England, established in 1974. It is the second largest secondary comprehensive school in the United Kingdom with more than 2,100 school students aged 11–18 (Years 7-13 / US Grades 6-12). It is built as part of a community site, including shared facilities including a leisure centre, theatre, health centre and church. Originally established as two schools, Bridgewater Hall and Brindley Hall. During the late 1980s, the schools split into four halls plus a shared sixth form, and eventually merged into one school. The campus held Arts College status as its specialism under the now discontinued specialist schools programme. ==Ethos== The concept for the school developed in the early 1970s with Geoff Cooksey appointed by Buckinghamshire County Council in 1971 where he worked with Tim Brighouse to create the first new secondary school of Milton Keynes. When the school opened in 1974, it introduced a first name policy which means students call staff by their first name rather than the normal convention of using the teacher's surname used in other schools. Stantonbury Campus was the first secondary school in the country to not have a uniform, but 38-years later the school introduced a uniform for years 7-9 for the September 2012 term following pressure from governors and from Ofsted and growing discipline issues. Stantonbury Campus has a unique ethos which are guiding principles in the management and the day-to-day life of the school.〔(Stantonbury Campus School Prospectus )〕 These are based upon equal value for all members of the school community (regardless of whether they are pupils or staff) and determined optimism for all. It has a history of educational innovation and has successfully defended the principles of comprehensive education in a climate which has sometimes been hostile to its inclusive and learner-centred ethos.〔Moon, B. (ed.) (1983) ,''Comprehensive Schools: challenge and change'', Windsor: NFER-Nelson〕〔Famously, Stantonbury was among the first schools to use the "opt out" (of LEA control) option introduced by the Thatcher Government to free itself of control by the Conservative-led Buckinghamshire County Council.〕 As part of its original concept as a "community school", open to the public as well as the students, the Campus has excellent facilities such as; an athletics track with all athletic sport equipment, a leisure centre complete with a swimming pool, a drama theatre, and science labs. The Leisure Centre and Theatre are now managed by a separate charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) - Stantonbury Art and Leisure Trust, established by the Campus in 2014. The Stantonbury timetable was significantly different to other secondary schools, incorporating long 1 hr and 2 hr sessions, and during the 1970s and 1980s, suspending normal timetables every fortnight (later every month) for "Day 10", a day of extra curricular activity which was selected by the student. At the end of each school year, the timetable was suspended for a week for "Week 10". Stantonbury Campus is the second biggest comprehensive schools in the country (Nottingham Academy being the largest since 2009). Having been a 12-to-18 school from its inception, it admitted students in Year 7 from September 2006, following reorganisation of secondary education in Milton Keynes. The campus is organised into five halls, four for 11- to 16-year-olds and one for sixth-form students. All pastoral support takes place in the halls, and students have much of their teaching there too. The proportion of students with learning difficulties and/or disabilities is higher than is normally found. These include difficulties with speech, language and communication; hearing impairment; autistic spectrum disorder; and behavioural, emotional and social difficulties. The proportion of students eligible for free school meals is below the average. The proportion of students who speak English as an additional language is similarly below average but, given the size of the campus, this represents a large number of students. Just over 20% of students are from minority ethnic groups. There are considerable numbers of students in the sixth form in receipt of the Education Maintenance Allowance. The campus has been a specialist Arts College (for performing and visual arts) since 1998 and, from 2006, has added two further specialisms - mathematics and computing, and applied learning. 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「Stantonbury Campus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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