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Cardinal Newman College is a Catholic sixth form college close to the centre of Preston. The College was graded "outstanding" by Ofsted in May 2009.〔(), Ofsted website, accessed 3 August 2012〕 The College was then granted "Beacon college" status by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service in November 2010.〔(), LSIS website, accessed 14 August 2012〕 The College was ranked as the best sixth form college in England according to the Sunday Times' analysis of A-level performance for 2011.〔("Sixth Formers in the Top 20" ), ''Blackpool Gazette'', 19 November 2012, accessed 25 November 2012〕 With nine other high-performing sixth form colleges, the College was a founder-member of the Maple Group of colleges in March 2013. The College has undergone significant new build and refurbishment since 2008. This has included the addition of the newly built St Cecilia’s Building in 2009, the acquisition of the St Augustine’s Centre in 2010 and the St Francis Building in 2015, situated next to the St Mary's Building. ==History== The college contains ''Lark Hill House'', built in 1797 as private house for Samuel Horrocks, a cotton manufacturer and later Mayor and Member of Parliament for Preston.〔Hartley, p.48〕〔(''Follow the Yarn: 1766 Samuel Horrocks'' ) accessed 27 November 2007〕 The house was unoccupied after the deaths of both Horrocks in 1842 and his son four years later, until 1860 when it was sold to the Faithful Companions of Jesus Sisters, to become ''Lark Hill House School'' for girls. The house was modified in 1870, with more classrooms added in 1893, 1907, and 1932. The school was a direct grant grammar school from 1919 known as Larkhill Convent Grammar School. From 1967, the school took in sixth-form students from other Catholic secondary schools around Preston. The introduction of comprehensive schools in Lancashire forced the school to stop admitting under-16 pupils from 1978. In that year, the Lark Hill sixth form merged with the sixth forms of the other two Catholic grammar schools in Preston, namely Winckley Square Convent School and Preston Catholic College, to form Cardinal Newman College,〔Garlington, pp.78–79〕 named after John Henry Newman. Initially the sites of all three former schools were used, but within a few years the college was concentrated at the Lark Hill site. However, the former Catholic College's playing fields, one mile (1½ km) south of the college, are still used by Newman College. 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「Cardinal Newman College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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