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Opinion23rd November 2015

School spotlight: Evelyn Grace Academy

Nestled in the heart of Brixton, Evelyn Grace Academy is a new, purpose-built secondary school. The school, which is just a few minutes鈥 walk from Brixton鈥檚 famous market, is already making waves in the local community thanks to its award-winning buildings, cutting-edge facilities and track record of giving great opportunities to its students.

Amongst those students is sixth former Nayane Pires, who moved to the UK with only basic English less than three years ago. Originally from Brazil, Nayane says: 鈥溾淭he school鈥檚 teacher for students who spoke English as an additional language, Miss Tralhao, put me in for extra English lessons. It really helped me improve my English.鈥 Thanks to that extra support, , as well as getting good results in maths and geography.

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Head of Design Technology Mervin Kissoon says: 鈥淓GA is a very community-focused school and there鈥檚 a real sense of teamwork amongst the staff. I remember in the lead-up to our last Ofsted inspection, we were encouraging each other in the hallways and really reinforcing the idea that we could do this and we would impress Ofsted together.

鈥淧ersonally, I believe that the staff here are the best I鈥檝e worked with. They鈥檙e excited about the school and they are very, very talented.

鈥淭he culture at EGA is very different, even from lots of 黑料情报站鈥檚 schools. The students come from really eclectic backgrounds and they鈥檙e very special. When you see the way students respond to learning here, you get a real sense that the school can achieve really incredible things.鈥

History teacher and published playwright Ben Fogarty says: 鈥淭here鈥檚 a lot of challenges at EGA, but it鈥檚 somewhere where you have a real opportunity to spread your wings. I was interested in setting up Duke of Edinburgh Award and New Views Theatre programmes in the school and I鈥檝e been given the tools and freedom to lead really great schemes.

鈥淵ou really feel part of the Brixton community here and it鈥檚 amazing seeing the impact your teaching is having on that community.鈥

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