Hillcrest School

Hillcrest School may refer to any one of several schools, including:

in Australia

in Canada

in Indonesia

in Kenya

in Malaysia

in Nigeria

in the United Kingdom

in the United States

Hastings Academy

The Hastings Academy, formerly known as Hillcrest, is a secondary school in Hastings, East Sussex, England. The school has over 700 students and over 100 staff. The headteacher is Mr. Michael Brett.

The Hastings Academy specialises in Maths and IT, and has been awarded the International School Award.

History

Hastings A School was completed in 1953, where it opened as a girls secondary school. At around this time the school campus was made up of B-Block and the sports fields. With the closure of the boys school in Priory Road in the late seventies, (next to Castledown School), Hillcrest accepted both male and female students.

In 2007 the school closed its 6th Form.

Campus

The school campus is divided into four blocks: L block, the Sports Centre, A Block and B Block. In addition to the Sports Centre, there is a gymnasium in B Block. There are three tennis courts on site and four playgrounds. There are two fields east of the Language Block. The school owns part of the woodland behind A Block's playground. A multi use games area was opened in 2006.

Moncton

Moncton /ˈmʌŋktən/ is a Canadian city located in Westmorland County in the southeastern portion of the province of New Brunswick. Situated in the Petitcodiac River Valley, Moncton lies at the geographic centre of the Maritime Provinces. The city has earned the nickname "Hub City" due to its central location in the region and its history as a railway and land transportation hub for the Maritimes.

The city proper has a population of 69,074 (2011) and has a land area of 142 km² (55 sq mi). The Moncton CMA has a population of 138,644 (2011), making it the largest CMA in New Brunswick and the second-largest CMA in the Maritime Provinces. The CMA includes the neighbouring city of Dieppe and the town of Riverview, as well as adjacent suburban areas in Westmorland and Albert counties.

Although the Moncton area was originally settled in 1733, Moncton is considered to have been officially founded in 1766 with the arrival of Pennsylvania Dutch immigrants from Philadelphia. Initially an agricultural settlement, Moncton was not incorporated until 1855. The city was named for Lt. Col. Robert Monckton, the British officer who had captured nearby Fort Beauséjour a century earlier. A significant wooden shipbuilding industry had developed in the community by the mid-1840s, allowing for the civic incorporation in 1855, but the shipbuilding economy collapsed in the 1860s, causing the town to lose its civic charter in 1862. Moncton regained its charter in 1875 after the community's economy rebounded, mainly due to a growing railway industry. In 1871, the Intercolonial Railway of Canada had chosen Moncton to be its headquarters, and Moncton remained a railroad town for well over a century until the closure of the Canadian National Railway (CNR) locomotive shops in the late 1980s.