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From: Architexturez <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 11:14:33 +0530
Patrick Barkham
Tuesday May 8, 2007
The Guardian
The most expensive state school in Britain thinks not. Designed by
Norman Foster, the £46.4m Thomas Deacon city academy will open its doors
to 2,200 pupils in September. The blancmange-shaped building offers a
wetland eco-pool and plasma screens on its main concourse but no
playground and no traditional breaktime.
The Peterborough school says not having the "uncontrollable space" of a
playground will cut bullying and pupils will not need to let off steam
because they will not be bored.
Miles Delap, the academy's project manager, says pupils will instead
have a "programme of enrichment", including 500 sports fixtures each
year, "fantastic" facilities for music, dance and theatre and a combined
cadet force, "so they don't need this time of running around and
disappearing on truant and sorting out a bit of business behind the bike
sheds - that's what we want to take away".
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http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2074528,00.html