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Tottenham Hotspur and Highgate want to open London school | Tottenham Hotspur and Highgate want to open London school |
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Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and a leading private school, Highgate School, are proposing a state sixth form in north London. | Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and a leading private school, Highgate School, are proposing a state sixth form in north London. |
The free school, planned for September 2017, will use staff and educational expertise from Highgate, where pupils pay £18,705 per year. | The free school, planned for September 2017, will use staff and educational expertise from Highgate, where pupils pay £18,705 per year. |
Spurs will be the school's main financial sponsor and provide premises. | Spurs will be the school's main financial sponsor and provide premises. |
Highgate's head teacher says it will allow the school to offer an education to poorer families "on our doorstep". | Highgate's head teacher says it will allow the school to offer an education to poorer families "on our doorstep". |
The proposed London Academy of Excellence Tottenham plans to offer A-level courses in the London Borough of Haringey, subject to a four-week consultation which begins next week. | The proposed London Academy of Excellence Tottenham plans to offer A-level courses in the London Borough of Haringey, subject to a four-week consultation which begins next week. |
Highgate has already been involved in Stratford's London Academy of Excellence, which has been successful in getting pupils into top universities. | Highgate has already been involved in Stratford's London Academy of Excellence, which has been successful in getting pupils into top universities. |
That school has provided the model for the Tottenham school and has been supported by other schools such as Eton. | That school has provided the model for the Tottenham school and has been supported by other schools such as Eton. |
'Bright local children' | 'Bright local children' |
The plan for the school promises an "academically-rigorous curriculum" aimed at pupils living in Tottenham from "disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds". | |
Haringey council leader Claire Kober welcomed the proposal as a "significant step in our ambition to ensure that young people in Tottenham have access to the same level of opportunity as any of their peers in London". | Haringey council leader Claire Kober welcomed the proposal as a "significant step in our ambition to ensure that young people in Tottenham have access to the same level of opportunity as any of their peers in London". |
Adam Pettitt, Highgate's head, said the school would enable "bright local children, especially those with disadvantaged backgrounds, to access a high-calibre academic education and first-rate preparation for university and employment". | |
"Although Highgate School is situated in an affluent area of London, some of the least affluent and most challenged parts of the whole city are on our doorstep." | "Although Highgate School is situated in an affluent area of London, some of the least affluent and most challenged parts of the whole city are on our doorstep." |
Donna-Maria Cullen, executive director for Spurs, said the project would help to regenerate "one of the poorest parts of Britain". | Donna-Maria Cullen, executive director for Spurs, said the project would help to regenerate "one of the poorest parts of Britain". |
"What has become evident to us is both the thirst for teaching at the highest level and a real need to retain the brightest schoolchildren in Tottenham," she added. | "What has become evident to us is both the thirst for teaching at the highest level and a real need to retain the brightest schoolchildren in Tottenham," she added. |
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