Residents’ Forum Meeting
The third meeting of the Chelsea Academy Residents' Forum was held on Tuesday 3 June. Notes from this meeting are available here.
Notes from previous meetings are available on the Local Residents' Forum page.
Chelsea Academy was granted full planning permission by the Kensington and Chelsea Council on 25 September, 2007.
Work will now begin to appoint a contractor to build the much-needed school on Lots Road and we are pleased to announce that we have successfully recruited a Principal, Andy Yarrow, who will start in April 2008, to take the project to the next stage.
Welcome to the Chelsea Academy website. This website provides information on the creation of a new Church of England secondary school - an Academy - at Lots Road, SW10, near Chelsea Harbour in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
The Chelsea Academy will be a mixed Church of England Academy specialising in sciences. It will be for students aged between 11-18 years.
The school will be sponsored by both the London Diocesan Board for Schools and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The Department for Children, Schools and Families is the key partner behind the proposal. Together this group is known as the Chelsea Academy Group.
The Academy is planned to open in a phased way from September 2009 with 162 year seven students. Further year groups will join in subsequent years with the school accommodating in total 810 11-16 year olds, plus a sixth form of 250 students by 2016. It is likely that the Sixth Form will open in September 2011.
"Our vision is to create an inspirational school of learning and achievement that would make a positive contribution to the community well-being in Kensington and Chelsea. This learning will be rooted in Christian values, providing outstanding educational opportunities and experiences that would enable all students - regardless of age, ethnicity, ability and background - to reach beyond themselves, to bring out the best in themselves and to make a difference to the world that they are growing up in."
The Bishop of Kensington, the Right Reverend Michael Colclough
Cllr Merrick Cockell, Leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council