The UCL Academy is a secondary school located in Swiss Cottage in the

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and sponsored by

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

(UCL). It opened in September 2012 with 180 students in Year 7 and reached full capacity as of September 2017.

History

The concept of a new academy school in Camden sponsored by UCL was first announced by

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, the UCL Provost, in November 2007. On 6 August 2010 Education Secretary Michael Gove announced that the Academy would receive a requested £30 million capital allocation and would therefore proceed. It was revealed on 9 September 2010 that the opening of the Academy had been delayed for one year due to the lack of funds. However, the Academy went on to open in September 2012. The Academy admitted its first pupils in September 2012. The school operates under a co-principal model. Its co-principals are Robin Street and Simon Mcbride

Building

The Academy is housed in new, purpose-built accommodations located on Adelaide Road. Facilities in the new accommodation include: *suites of rooms for cross-curricular general learning called Superstudios; *suites of rooms for art, music and drama, including performance spaces; *science laboratories, and a science demonstration theatre for lectures, experiments and talks by visiting academics from UCL; *an engineering science suite, including workshops and technology and science labs; *House areas, providing places for students to eat together, and for informal study during breaks and before and after school. Plans for the new building received planning permission in August 2010.

Curriculum

The Academy is a unique "STEAM" specialist school and

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is taught. The STEAM specialism consists of the following subject areas: *

Science Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...

Technology Technology is the application of knowledge to reach practical goals in a specifiable and Reproducibility, reproducible way. The word ''technology'' may also mean the product of such an endeavor. The use of technology is widely prevalent in me ...

Engineering Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...

Art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...

Maths Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

References

External links

The UCL AcademyUniversity College LondonCamden Council
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History

Building

Curriculum

See also

References

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