City of London Academy, Southwark
The City of London Academy, Southwark (51°29′21″N 0°03′53″W / 51.4893°N 0.0648°W / 51.4893; -0.0648) is sponsored by the City of London Corporation.
The building was designed by Studio E Architects and built by Willmott Dixon.
The school has seven years including the sixth form (Years 7,8,9,10 & 11 as well as two years of sixth form).
The Academy now has two-year groups studying their GCSEs. 2007 marked the first year in which every year group had students however the school will not be full until 2009 as currently the 6th forms only have around 30 students per year. By 2009 there will be 150 in each year with the majority of those places filled by the Academy's current year 10 & 11's.
The non-curricular subject Business Studies is also taught here, which teaches young pupils how to become entrepreneurs in the making. The building features a wide array of computers.
Students at The City of London Academy purchase their lunches using a credit card-like ID card, which is topped up using special machines.
Catchment area All students living in the City of London are eligible to attend the school. See for a detailed catchment map. Some students can board the city bus to the school if they live outside the area.
School uniform The school requires a school uniform. Uniforms include purple blazers, grey jumpers, white shirts and grey trousers. The tie worn is coloured purple, white and red, with diagonal stripes. The prefects are entitled to wear plain purple ties with the academy logos. In the summer, many girls wear a purple checked summer dress. This is because The City of London Academy know that the normal school uniform can be a bit too hot.
Read more about this topic: City Of London Academy
Famous quotes containing the words city of, city and/or london:
““Do not be afraid; for see -I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign for you: you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger.””
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 2:10 -12.
Angels to the Shepherds.
“The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomac ... and that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to read once more only the words Orpheus, Linus, Musæus,—those faint poetic sounds and echoes of a name, dying away on the ears of us modern men; and those hardly more substantial sounds, Mimnermus, Ibycus, Alcæus, Stesichorus, Menander. They lived not in vain. We can converse with these bodiless fames without reserve or personality.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)