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Thomas Tallis School is a large mixed comprehensive school for pupils aged 11-19, located in Kidbrooke in the Borough of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom. The school is a specialist Arts College, Leading Edge School and national School of Creativity, despite this however the school does not offer music GCSE or A-Level for students.

The School was built in 1971, originally for 850 pupils, but now packs in nearly 1700. It is built on the site of a former RAF airfield. However, the school has now won funding for an entirely new state-of-the-art building, due to open in September 2011.

The school and its facilities

Thomas Tallis is not that good of a school, in fact, miss beouchamp is a fat cow.

The past

Richard Reid, also known as "The Shoe Bomber," attended Tallis.[1] In 1997, one of the school's pupils, fifteen year old Nathan Brown, a member of a triad-style gang called the Golden Snakes, murdered CJ Rickard, 14, a pupil from the neighbouring kidbrooke School with a 17-inch machete. Six other pupils of the school were jailed for a total of 20 years after admitting conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm with intent.[2]

Others have been much more positively successful. One instance amongst many: a more recent student at Tallis, Dominic Cooper, originated the role of Dakin in Alan Bennett's play The History Boys at the Royal National Theatre, going on to play Dakin on tour in New Zealand, Australia and Hong Kong and on Broadway and in film and radio versions of the piece. The school was filmed for some short cut-scenes projected onto a screen onstage at the National.

The school and many of its students at the time were featured on The Adam and Joe Show, in a segment in which Adam's father Nigel, "infiltrates" the school, to expose youth culture, despite the fact of being a senior.

The present

In 1998, the school was awarded specialist arts college status and has successfully been re-designated twice. Further recognition of its general excellence and high attainment came when the school was awarded Leading Edge status in 2005. This accolade refers to the fact that the school is seen as being involved in the development of innovative teaching methodologies and ways of increasing the attainment of children. Thomas Tallis School has belonged to the Creative Partnerships network of schools since 2005. In May 2008, the school became one of only thirty schools in the country to be awarded the status of School of Creativity. The school is also acknowledged for its Deaf and Hearing unit (to which several rooms are dedicated), in which deaf and hearing impaired students can interact more socially and achieve good results.

The school has also recently been in the news for being involved in TV chef Jamie Oliver's campaign to improve school dinners in Britain. It features in his TV series Jamie's School Dinners - for instance, the students feeling a bit sick as they are shown how a 'Turkey Twizzler' is really made are in one of Tallis's Food classrooms. Since then the menu has changed and a new healthy panini and fair trade cafe has opened.

A text book designed by German publisher Klett uses pictures of the school and, as a consequence, German students frequently contact Thomas Tallis in search of pen pals.

As of the 29th of June 2009, so far 24 cases of swine flu have been confirmed. The council have no intention of closing the school down.

The future

The school is part of the British government's Pathfinder Building Schools for the Future programme. Building work on a new school adjacent to the current site begins in 2009 with occupancy of the new school scheduled to take place in 2011. Staff and students are actively involved with the architects in the design of the new school.


Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ Keme Nzerem: At School with the Shoe Bomber. The Guardian, 28. Februar 2002, abgerufen am 15. März 2007.
  2. ↑ Cj's Murderer To Appeal Against Sentence. News Shopper, 20. Juni 1998, abgerufen am 15. März 2007.


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