The UCL Academy is a

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located in Swiss Cottage in the

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and sponsored by

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(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

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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"

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and

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

Science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

* Technology *

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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

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History

Building

Curriculum

See also

References

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