The School Today
St Thomas More Upper School currently serves children aged 13–19 from all over Bedford Borough. It is part of The Federation of Bedford Catholic Schools, under the guidance of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Northampton. The other schools within this federation are St Gregory's RC Middle School, St Joseph's Lower School, and St John Rigby Lower School. However, from September 2014, St Thomas More School will begin accepting children from the age of 11, effectively meaning that it will become a secondary school.
The school currently achieves the highest levels of improvement by pupils between the ages of 11 and 16 of any state school in Bedfordshire.
As a Humanities College, St Thomas More School has a reputation for innovative practice and excellence. English is the lead department where results in 2007 placed the school in the top two per cent nationally. The schools humanities provision offers a range of courses, including specialist literature, media and drama options. Students' work is regularly displayed locally and has won national awards, with articles being published in The Times newspaper.
In July 2011, the school become one of the first in the country to be granted teaching school status – a new designation entitling it to lead the training and professional development of staff.
Read more about this topic: St Thomas More Catholic Upper School
Famous quotes containing the words school today, school and/or today:
“While most of today’s jobs do not require great intelligence, they do require greater frustration tolerance, personal discipline, organization, management, and interpersonal skills than were required two decades and more ago. These are precisely the skills that many of the young people who are staying in school today, as opposed to two decades ago, lack.”
—James P. Comer (20th century)
“I go to school to youth to learn the future.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“But today I set the bed afire
and smoke is filling the room,
it is getting hot enough for the walls to melt,
and the icebox, a gluey white tooth.
I have on a mask in order to write my last words,
and they are just for you....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)