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The Spires College (formerly Westlands School) is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in the Devon town of Torquay, England. Established in 1973, the school has since become a bilateral school, for children aged between 11 and 18. The school is located in the Plainmoor district of Torquay, with most students living in the catchment area of Plainmoor, St Marychurch, Babbacombe and Ellacombe areas of the town. However some students do live further away from the school catchment area, yet still attend the school due to a selective grammar stream and special support for deaf children. ==History== The school was established in 1973 and was named after the joining of Westhill Secondary and Homelands Technical High School, the latter an all-boys school at the time. It was split over two separate sites about half a mile from each other. One site, named Lower School, was used for students ages 11–13 in years 7 and 8, while the other site, named Upper School was for students in year 9 and higher. During the Second World War, the lower school buildings were originally built to be an army hospital (Torquay being a major town for war hospitals). Each classroom featured 'walls' consisting of multiple double doors where beds would have been brought in and out. Throughout the 1970s the school became increasingly run down with little or no investment in buildings. In 1978 a major fire, which broke out in the upper school's chemistry department storeroom, exacerbated the situation by seriously damaging many classrooms. During this period, much of the upper school was housed in temporary Portakabin structures as a substitute for real classrooms. This lack of investment in the school occurred simultaneously with the local Education Department's decision to fund a major relocation and redevelopment of Torquay Grammar School to the Shiphay site. Both Westland's sites relied heavily on outside cabins to provide extra teaching facilities which, by the late 1990s, were old and starting to become increasingly damaged. The school became a Technology College in 2001, specialising in ICT and technology subjects, and receiving additional government funding. Westlands School applied for academy status located in 2013, however this was refused by the inspecting body Ofsted after the school failed its 2013 inspection and was placed under special measures. However Westlands School was renamed The Spires College in September 2015,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Spires - a new start! )〕 and is due to become a sponsored academy in the next few months. 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 Spires College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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