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The Petersfield School (TPS) is located in Petersfield, Hampshire, in southern England. The school opened on 20 June 1958 and remains the only state-funded secondary school in Petersfield. It received Arts College status in September 2004, and became an academy in July 2011. The current head teacher is Mr Nigel Poole, with the previous being Mrs Kathy Bell.〔 == History == The school first opened on 20 June 1958 with an original enrolment of 400 pupils.〔 This has since increased to an enrolment of 1200 pupils in 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Ofsted )〕 It received Arts College status in September 2004 with the opening of a new studio called The Studio @ TPS.〔〔 The school was inspected by Ofsted in September 2002, and has been inspected three more times since then.〔 In 2002 Ofsted praised the school's results in General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) qualifications, which were above the national average, as well as the school's development plan to improve. Concerns were however raised about the gap in performance between boy and girl students in GCSEs, inconsistency in dealing with "the unsatisfactory behaviour of a small but influential minority of pupils", and the school timetabling system which resulted in many pupils having more than one teacher per subject. In March 2007 the school was re-inspected with Ofsted rating the school's overall effectiveness as grade 3 ("satisfactory"). The relationship between pupils and teachers was described as "outstanding" and it was stated that the school had "good capacity to improve further". Criticism was given about the lack of "progress" from pupils in Years Ten and Eleven. In June 2010 The Petersfield School was assessed as grade 1 ("outstanding"). Ofsted concluded that the school had improved significantly due to the introduction of a "departmental review system", including "pupil panels". The School was most recently inspected in the 2014 - 2015 school year and was assessed as "good". In 2007 the school revealed plans to create an all-weather AstroTurf pitch for association football and rugby, as well as two tennis courts, four hard courts, three cricket pitches, two cricket nets, and new changing rooms. The plan formed part of a sale of school land to Tesco, to allow expansion of its store next to TPS. Tesco planned to increase the store's floor space by 1,550 square metres and to create a new loading area for lorries as part of its online shopping service. One joint application for planning permission was made for both the sports pitch and the store expansion. This decision was described as "manipulation and blackmail" by Kenneth Hick, a member of the Petersfield Town Council. East Hampshire District Council however defended the joint application by arguing that: Planning permission for the new development was granted on 5 June 2008. Permission was also later given to remove an ancient oak tree as part of the development, and consent was made by the Secretary of State for Education and Skills for the sale of school land to Tesco. The AstroTurf pitch was completed in March 2010, with the expectation that all the new facilities were to be complete and open for use by September 2010. On 20 June 2008 the school celebrated its 50th anniversary by inviting the class of 1958 to a day at the school. Ninety people attended the event which included a tree planting ceremony.〔 The passing of the Academies Act 2010 by the United Kingdom coalition government has allowed schools graded as "outstanding" by Ofsted, including The Petersfield School, to apply for academy status. In November 2010 the governors of the school voted unanimously for the school to apply to the Department for Education to become an academy. Academy status would allow the school to become independent from the local education authority (Hampshire County Council), and would as a result get an extra £500,000 of direct funding per year. The school announced that it aimed to have become an academy by the summer term of 2011. In May 2011 it was announced that permission had been granted for The Petersfield School to become an academy from 1 July 2011.〔 In January 2011, the school was reported to have suspended a pupil two days after he joined as it was suspected that he was an adult. A statement from Nigel Poole, the head teacher, stated that the suspension had been carried out due to the school's "child safeguarding policies", and that the pupil would be allowed to return if it could be "reassured" that he is fourteen years old, as claimed. The pupil was later allowed to continue attending classes when his age was proven through a birth certificate, and Nigel Poole apologized for the incident. In 2 June 2012, over thirty pupils from the school were present when gunman Christopher Husbands opened fire in the Eaton Centre of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, causing two fatalities and several injuries. The pupils, none of which were injured, were in Canada as part of a two week association football and rugby football tour, which was allowed to continue despite the incident. 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 Petersfield School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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