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News archive - April 2009Educational legacy for Olympic Village A NEW EDUCATION campus is to be built within the Olympic Village. Planning permission has been secured for the Chobham Academy, which will specialise in Performing Arts and English, with an additional focus on sports excellence. The Olympic Village, which lies adjacent to the Olympic Park and Stratford City sites, will accommodate athletes during the 2012 Games and will leave a legacy of thousands of new homes, parks and community facilities after 2012. The Academy, which is scheduled to open in September 2013, will provide spaces for 1,800 students between the ages of three and 19, along with adult learning facilities. Day Care facilities for children up to five years old will be located on the school site and integrated into the nursery and lower school. Other facilities include a sports complex and an arts complex for both the school and community use, plus a civic hub, available for residents’ social activities. Chobham Academy is being developed by Lend Lease and the ODA in partnership with the Department for Children, Schools and Families, the London Borough of Newham, and the Learning & Skills Council London East. The Academy will be part of the Government’s National Academy Programme and will be run by a not-for-profit Registered Charitable Trust. The Academy will be revenue funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families. Chobham Academy has been designed by architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (which designed the Stirling Prize-shortlisted Westminster Academy), and landscape designers Kinnear Landscape Architects. BAM are the preferred bidder for the construction contract. With construction due to start on site in late summer, the Academy will be built at the north-eastern end of the Village site and will initially be used during the Olympic Games as the main Village operations centre, to house team management and communications. « |
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