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Whitehorse Manor Junior School is a junior school for pupils aged between 7 and 11 years. The school is located in Thornton Heath. In April 2011 the school became part of the first Academy Trust in Croydon and the running of the school became part of the responsibility of the Pegasus Academy Trust, a public company limited by guarantee. The Executive Headteachers of The Pegasus Academy Trust are Jolyon Roberts and Lynne Sampson. The school caters for pupils from Year 3 to Year 6. The uniform of the school is a burgundy sweatshirt with the school logo, white shirt and grey trousers or skirt. The school is expanding from 2 to 3 form entry and there are currently 300 pupils on roll with a maximum of 30 pupils in each of 10 classes. To cater for these extra children a major building project took place between April 2010 and April 2014 providing 7 extra classrooms, new offices, extended hall and library. The scheme was designed by the architects Hayhurst and Co and won a RIBA London award in May 2014.〔''()'' Architects Journal article on RIBA London awards〕 The current Head of School is Nina Achenbach, BA (QTS), NPQH. The school is famous for producing England football hot prospect Wilfred Zaha. == History == The school was opened in 1892 and has a complicated history - having undergone a great many re-organisations. Dr Ron Cox, consultant archivist to the Education Department of the London Borough of Croydon, lists the chronological story as follows: * 1892-1911 Three schools (apart from the infants) opened on the Whitehorse Road site: Whitehorse Road Junior (Mixed) school, Whitehorse Road Senior boys' school, Whitehorse Road Senior girls' school. * 1911-1930 In 1911 Whitehorse Road Junior (Mixed) school closed and the pupils moved into the respective boys and girls departments of the two senior schools therefore giving Whitehorse Road (Post-Infants) boys' school and Whitehorse Road (Post-Infants) girls' school. * In 1921 as part of a general re-organisation of school names the Whitehorse Road schools were re-designated "Whitehorse Manor". * 1930-1955 In 1930 there was a substantial re-organisation. All the Whitehorse Manor senior girls moved to another local school, Ecclesbourne, and all the Ecclesbourne senior boys moved to Whitehorse Manor. All the Whitehorse Manor junior boys moved to Ecclesbourne and all the Ecclesbourne junior girls moved to Whitehorse Manor. On the Whitehorse Manor site this left Whitehorse Manor Senior (later secondary modern) boys' school and Whitehorse Manor Junior girls' school. * 1955-1961 In 1955, doubtless because of the inadequacy of the facilities, Whitehorse Manor secondary modern boys' school closed and pupils and staff were transferred to other schools in the area. This left Whitehorse Manor Junior girls' school. * 1961 to 2011 The closure of Ecclesbourne Junior boys' school meant these pupils transferred to the Whitehorse Manor site and were combined with the girls which left a single school, Whitehorse Manor Junior (Mixed) school. *From April 2011 The school became part of the Pegasus Academy Trust. Agnes Mason, an associate of D. H. Lawrence taught at this school for some years until Davidson Road School opened in 1907 when she went there to teach with Lawrence. A penetrating description of the school and its staff at that time is to be found in Helen Corke's book ''In our infancy:an autobiography, Part 1 1882-1912''. She too was an associate of Lawrence. 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「Whitehorse Manor Junior School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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