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The Norwood School is a co-educational community school at the south end of the London Borough of Lambeth, for girls and boys aged 11–18. The school is a specialist Arts College. From September 2007, the school admitted boys for the first time as it changed its status from a single sex girls' school to a co-educational community school.〔( The Norwood School Website )〕 Its pupils travel from across the local education authority mainly from Brixton, Streatham and Vauxhall and a small proportion from neighbouring boroughs.〔Ofsted, (2002), ''Oftsed Inspection Report, 2002''〕 ==History== Norwood School for Boys and Girls was established in 1958 as a secondary school for girls aged between 11 and 16 by the London County Council.〔London County Council, (1962), ''Secondary Schools in Bermondsey, Lambeth and Southwark'', Division 8, page 13〕 The school was originally based in Gipsy Road in West Norwood〔 housed in a Victorian building built for the 1875 establishment of a London School Board school.〔1895 ''Kelly's London County Suburbs Directory (Southern Suburbs)''〕 It has always therefore been a quite separate institution from the Norwood School of Industry which dominated Elder Road, West Norwood during most of the nineteenth century. Although the buildings on Gipsy Road were originally designed to hold a large number of pupils (up to 1000)〔 the premises were deemed to be insufficient to house the two schools during the 1960s and it was agreed that another site would have to be found to at least accommodate the senior year groups.〔 Building began of a new Upper School on Crown Dale,〔Jean Lawrence, Margaret Tucker, Mary Scott, George Varnava, (1988), ''Norwood Was a Difficult School: A Case Study of Education Change'', page 114, Nelson Thornes (Publishers) Ltd.〕 near the junction with Elder Road in West Norwood, opposite Norwood Park, a relatively short distance from the school’s current site on Gipsy Road, which ran down another side of the same park. In 1971, on 21 April, years three to six moved to the brand new and much vaulted Upper School,〔 whilst the first and second years remained in Gipsy Road in what was now called the Lower School,〔Jean Lawrence, Margaret Tucker, Mary Scott, George Varnava, (1988), '' Norwood Was a Difficult School: A Case Study of Education Change'', page 115, Nelson Thornes (Publishers) Ltd〕 sharing this with a primary school, known as Norwood Park Primary School. The only piece of furniture allowed in the new building from the old was the kneehole desk from the Head’s room in Gipsy Road.〔 The new site also had grounds that had been planted with a multitude of shrubs and flowers.〔 A very clear attempt was made at this time to impress upon students and commentators alike that the name of the school was Norwood or Norwood School, to reflect its ''comprehensive'' nature and move away from the secondary modern nomenclature. However, the colloquial references to Norwood Girls' or Norwood Girls' School were as old as the school and remained.〔Jean Lawrence, Margaret Tucker, Mary Scott, George Varnava, (1988), ''Norwood Was a Difficult School: A Case Study of Education Change'', pages 114-115, Nelson Thornes (Publishers) Ltd.〕 Eventually, the first and second years moved to the site on Crown Dale in the late 1980s where the school remains to the present day. In September 2005 the school was awarded Specialist Status in Performing and Visual Arts,〔 areas in which the school had a tradition from its earliest times and reflected in the careers of its more illustrious alumni. From September 2007, the school’s admittance of boys as well as girls firmly relegated the ''Norwood Girl’s'' tag as the school changes its status from a single sex girls' school to a co-educational community school. This change has been reported as being in response to the needs and demands of Lambeth parents.〔 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 Norwood School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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