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The John Bentley School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form in Calne, Wiltshire for students aged 11 to 18. Since September 2011, it has been an Academy. ==History== Formed in 1974 when the ''Bentley Grammar School'' and the ''Fynemore School'' merged. Both sites were used until 1998 when the ''Fynemore School'' site in Silver Street was given up and more buildings added to the Wessington site, and existing ones improved. The school was renamed ''The John Bentley School'' The oldest Calne school was founded in 1557 by Walter Finamore of Whetham (just outside Calne). He gave an annuity of 40 shillings towards the foundation of a free school to be established within the Borough of Calne. The money devised was to be used ''for the education and bringing up of ten children of the poor''. Various other bequests were made during the 16th century and the school's revenue was further augmented by a grant from borough funds. The school did not possess a building until 1830 - lessons had been held in a disused malthouse until that date. Subscriptions from residents and a few wealthy landowners were collected and a site was given by the Marquis of Lansdowne. The school became the ''Boys' National School''. In 1856 a side on ''The Green'' in Calne was occupied by the ''Girls' National School'' - built at the expense of a Mrs Wetherall of Patford Street, Calne. The second oldest school in Calne sanctioned by the Charity Commissioners was ''The Bentley Grammar School'' founded in 1663 by the trustees under the will of John Bentley of Richmond, Surrey. Although he had no intention of establishing a school in Calne, three of the trustees under his will had an association with the town. The newly erected school (with a schoolmaster's house) remained until 1833. In 1894 the Charity Commissioners reorganised the school and modernised it. In 1901 it was combined with the ''Technical Institute'' which had also been established in 1894. Both schools continued to expand into the 20th Century. The ''Bentley Grammar School'' moved onto the present site in 1959 and the ''Elementary School'' (later to be the ''Fynamore Secondary Modern School'') was built at the Wenhill Lane site (now a housing estate) in 1930. The two schools became ''The John Bentley Comprehensive School'' in 1974 and remained a split site (North Wing and South Wing) until the North Wing site was sold and the school became a single site in 1998. The school's Language College status was formally recognised by an official opening by Her Majesty the Queen in 2001. ''The John Bentley School'' also gained Training School status in 2001. In recognition of its status as ''"a good school with many outstanding features"'' by Ofsted, ''The John Bentley School'' was formally invited to apply for Academy status in 2010. 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 John Bentley School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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