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The Hundred of Hoo Academy (formerly The Hundred of Hoo School) is a secondary school with academy status located in the Hoo Peninsula, in the village of Hoo in Kent, England. The school provides standard secondary education as well as offering advanced media facilities. The complex also includes a nursery, a conference centre and sports centre. The school holds specialist Arts College status. It has over 1,600 students. ==History of the school == Opened in 1956-57, the school is named after the Saxon Hundreds and the parish of Hoo St Werburgh, in which the village is located. The secondary school has over 1,700 boys and girls aged 11–19. The village of Hoo St Werburgh is one of six in the Hoo Peninsula, which incorporates the Isle of Grain and is situated between the river Thames and river Medway. It is also close to Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham (the Medway Towns), which have a combined population of over 250,000; this is due to increase as part of the Thames Gateway project. Medway Council is a Unitary Authority with 17 secondary schools. The school draws its students mainly from the Hoo Peninsula, which is part rural and part semi-rural, and the Medway Towns, particularly Strood. Medway Council operates, in the main, a selective system with 23% of pupils attending grammar schools. Creamed comprehensive education is only available in the rural ares and in the faith sectors. Despite this, it is claimed that intake of Hundred of Hoo is broadly comprehensive. In 1992 the Hundred of Hoo School and Hoo Middle School, part of a three tier education structure on adjacent sites, merged as one into the existing buildings. Since then there has been much additional building work, providing the school with good specialist facilities and social areas for each year group, including a large Sixth Form common room. An examination hall/exhibition/meeting venue, called the Morris Poole Examination Suite is able to accommodate up to 350 examinees or an audience of 600+. Each learning area has an ICT Suite. A Media Centre, built from the Specialist Schools funding for Media Arts (Special people's School Status achieved September 2004), was completed during 2005-2006. The school has also used the Lottery Funding to provide artificial pitches opened in January 2007. 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「The Hundred of Hoo Academy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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