Hope and Glory ; Will This Visionary School Give a Decent Education to Our Most Deprived Children?
Evening Standard - London › August 09, 2004
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Nine years ago, Hackney Downs School was torn down, condemned as "the worst school in Britain". Now its gleaming replacement, designed by distinguished architect Lord Rogers, has risen from the rubble. So has the Government got it right at last? A month from the official opening, Yvonne Singh entered its glass portals to find out...
AT FIRST sight, the V-shaped shell of the Mossbourne Community Academy resembles a craft Luke Skywalker would happily commandeer. But instead of the quiet hum of an interstellar spaceship, it reverberates under the frenetic whirr of workmen's drills and the thud of hammers.See the full content of this document
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Hope and Glory ; Will This Visionary School Give a Decent Education to Our Most Deprived Children?
Come the autumn term, however, work on the building should be finished, and its light-filled open spaces will echo with the footsteps and laughter of 200 lucky 11-year-old children who will have the run of the whole new school and its expensive resources, including a state-oftheart sports hall.
The intake will be staggered so that, over successive years, it will grow to its full roll of 1,000 pupils by Shafts of sunlight stream through the glass ceiling ...See the full content of this document
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