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Independent school considering academy status
Posted on 25th July 2007
An independent school in Bristol is considering plans to become an academy school specialising in music, maths and the performing arts.
Bristol Cathedral School is currently discussing the possibility of changing status with a potential sponsor and the Department for Children, Schools and Families.
Hugh Monro, headteacher at the school, said that the talks were in their "early stages" and a final decision about the school's future was yet to be made.
"But the great and unique attraction of becoming an academy is that many more young people would be able to benefit from the very special ethos of the school," he remarked.
In related news, Wellington College recently announced that it had obtained funding for a state academy in Tidworth, Wiltshire.
Becoming the first independent school to fund a state academy, the institution said that the £2 million funding would be used to develop the Wellington College Academy specialising in modern foreign languages, business and enterprise.