Academy status for Holland Park

Holland Park School will this week begin consulting parents on proposals to convert to academy status.

Having heard their views the school governors will, later in the month, be asked to consider a decision in principle to become an academy from September 2013 on completion of the new school building.

The local education authority, Kensington and Chelsea, has been involved in the plan from the earliest stages and is backing the idea.

“Like any dynamic and successful school, Holland Park is looking forward to its next stage of development, and to how it can maximise the interests of its pupils,” said, Cllr Elizabeth Campbell, the Royal Borough’s Cabinet Member for Education.

“We have long encouraged the school to do just that and we are giving this move to academy status our wholehearted support.

“We are extremely proud of what we – the Head, the staff, governors and Council - have achieved together. Today’s Holland Park is an outstanding school. And thanks to the Council, it will soon have an outstanding building to match.

“Despite the change in status, Holland Park Academy will have no better ally than the Royal Borough.”

Sir John Baker, Holland Park School Chair of Governors, said:

“Holland Park has come a very long way in recent years, but we want to go further and we think our best chance of doing that is as an academy. The Royal Borough has been a steadfast friend and supporter of the school and we are determined to maintain that close relationship.”