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Description: | Thorns School and Community College has its origins in two separate schools, Quarry Bank Boys and Girls Secondary Schools which opened in the early 1930s as part of Staffordshire LEA and which were situated on opposite sides of Coppice Lane in Quarry Bank. This continued until the late 1960s when the two schools joined together under the headship of Mr J Martin, as part of Dudley LEA. The present site in Stockwell Avenue, based on what is now called the Annexe or Phase 1, was used in the early 1970s as an overspill from Coppice Lane for lessons for the older students. As student numbers increased in the mid 1970s, mobile classrooms were gradually erected in the present playground to cope with the demand. This number reached nearly 20 before the LEA planners realised more permanent buildings were needed. Thus in 1977 the Coppice Lane schools were closed, and Phase 2 was opened with 700 students now attending the school. There was further expansion in the 1980s as the number of students continued to grow, with Phase 3 for a sports area and Phase 4 for Maths and Science classes. The last major building development was opened in 1991 as 1200 students were registered at what was now known as Thorns School and Community College, reflecting the increasing role the college was playing within the community. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Dudley Archives | Rights holder: | Dudley Archives | Temporal: | 1988-2000 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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