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WESTMINSTER ACADEMY at the Naim Dangoor Centre The Academy is now in its sixth year and moved into our Harrow Road site in September 2007. The buildings were designed by award-winning architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM). Initially, in summer 2007, some 750 students moved there and our sixth form (Year 12) opened. In September 2008 the Academy expanded with its first Year 13. The site on Harrow Road, between Alfred Street and Torquay Street, is extensive for a city school and includes: state of the art facilities; eight sports pitches; and a magnificent community sports centre with dance studio. The sports facility, Academy Sport, is open to the public after 5pm as well as for the use of Academy students during school hours. The main building has a ground floor comprising a large lecture theatre, drama studio, library and atrium with breakout spaces and a global café. The first and second floors each have classrooms and practical rooms, laboratories, workshops and studios, while on the top floor you will find the performing arts area, the sky dining area and the staffroom. The Academy has already won several major awards, including the British Council for School Environments award for the Most Inspiring Secondary School Design, The Civic Trust Award 2009, the RIBA Sorrell Foundation Schools Award 2008, and the RIBA London Building of the Year 2008. It was shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2008 and also won the Specialist Schools & Academies Trust Future Vision Award in 2007. What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure Samuel Johnson 4WESTMINSTER ACADEMY | PROSPECTUS 2012-2013 The buildings represent an impressive investment in the future of our young people and create an excellent learning environment, allowing students to benefit from the latest technology and well-designed furnishings in comfortable, safe surroundings. All our facilities are also available to local groups and businesses, as we intend the building to become a hub of community activity and contribute to the regeneration of the Westbourne area of Westminster. Westminster Academy believes that a healthy school is one that interacts with the community. Westminster Academy works with representatives from housing, social and youth services, the health service, the police and voluntary organisations together in a joined-up strategic approach to improving people’s lives in Westbourne. The Westbourne Forum, which includes student representatives, has been key to the co-ordination of all these improvements, through the community plan.
We taught them the theory of flight. They said: We are afraid to fly. Come to the edge, we said. They came. We pushed them and they flew. Guillaume Apollinaire WESTMINSTER ACADEMY | PROSPECTUS 2012-2013 5
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