PROSPECTUS 2012-2013 - Westminster Academy

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Welcome from the principal, chair of governors and sponsor PRINCIPAL Smita Bora BSc Hons, PGCE, MBA, FRSA CHAIR OF GOVERNORS Jeremy Witts Westminster Academy Trust SPONSOR David Dangoor The Exilarch’s Foundation 2WESTMINSTER ACADEMY | PROSPECTUS 2012-2013 Welcome to the Westminster Academy prospectus, which is intended for all Year 6 students who are considering joining the Academy in September 2012, as well as their parents and the local community. We hope you will enjoy finding out more about our school and our highly successful, innovative approaches to education in our stunning new building. After two years of outstanding leadership by Alison Banks in setting up Westminster Academy as a flagship institution, I am confident that our sixth year as a new school will continue to demonstrate how students, parents, staff and the community working together can raise aspirations, achievement, attainment and well-being. Our vision for the future, purposeful ethos and rising standards continue to make us even more popular as a new academy, reflected by the increase in the number of parents and students nominating us as their first choice school. Our prestigious Advisory Board and our links with the world of business and higher education continue to offer our students unique opportunities to further lifelong ambitions. In January 2008, we achieved International Baccalaureate World School status and in September 2009 we achieved the International School Award. Further details of our success in being named one of the most improved Academies in the country can be found at www.westminsteracademy.biz Please note there is a special open evening for Year 6 students and parents on Wednesday 5th October 2011 from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. I look forward to welcoming you to the Academy at this event. Our aim is to make Westminster Academy much more than an excellent school in a wonderful new building. It has always been our intention to create an Academy that is a learning resource for everyone in the community - meeting the needs of local residents and business, as well as students and parents. To fulfil this aim, we have already opened Academy Sport and this year we will be extending, through Academy Community, the opportunities offered to all community groups to use the main Academy building. We are very proud of the Academy and our new building and are excited by its potential for the future. We hope, if you live in Westminster and in particular in Westbourne, that you will share this pride and feel that the Academy and its buildings are for you. We are proud to be associated with Westminster Academy which continues to make significant progress in providing inspiration and innovative education to the young of the local community coming Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. Napoleon Hill from so many fascinating and diverse backgrounds. There is still much hard work to be done to build on the successes of the first four years. As sponsors we are committed to supporting the Chair of Governors, Principal and staff in delivering engagement and excellence to give every student the best possible foundation for their future.
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. George Bernard Shaw WESTMINSTER ACADEMY | PROSPECTUS 2012-2013 3
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