Kensington Aldridge Academy is for the community

As plans for the new Kensington Aldridge Academy start to develop, Rod Aldridge and Honor Wilson Fletcher attended a community meeting to discuss the project with local people in North Kensington.

The Academy will open in 2014, creating a brand new secondary school, with a focus on entrepreneurship and expressive arts that will accommodate 900 11-16 year olds, and up to 240 students in the sixth form.

150 residents attended the meeting, and Foundation Chief Executive Honor Wilson Fletcher explained that the role of the Foundation is to ensure all students receive a high quality education, by creating the educational vision and ethos for the Academy, and ensuring it delivers this for the benefit of the local community. 

Honor said: “We want to work with the local community as the plans for the Academy develop, not just in the classroom, but in the ways the Kensington Academy will become part of the community. 

We believe passionately that great schools glue communities together; they act as a stimulus to bring in additional resources, and will help support the long term future of this community too – which is something we’d all want.”   

Also attending the meeting were representatives from the Academy’s co-sponsor, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. 

Learn more about the Academy at www.kensingtonaldridgeacademy.co.uk