UK news website This is Local London reports on parents' campaign to open a 'creative' new free school in Coppetts Wood, offering International Baccalaureate® (IB) programmes.
The article reports that parents and students who are campaigning to open a new international primary school say it will be a “creative" way of showing children the world around them.
The school will offer the IB and is being backed by Jordan and Csilla Brimer, who run an international education network, plus mother Fahima Kahn, and 19-year-old Sophie Taylor, who studied at an IB World School. The driving force behind the campaign is Director of studies, Yukesha Maran.
The article quotes Ms Brimer:
IB teachers are more passionate about the curriculum and want to push for that to be implemented. The children will become independent thinkers.
The school will be state-funded and an application is due to be submitted to the Department for Education under the free school project.
Parent, Ms Khan, of West Way, Edgware is also quoted:
We believe in this school. We envisage that children that come out of the school will be well-versed on the world’s problems and know what’s going on around them in the world. It will open up a whole new world to them.
You can read the full article on This is London.
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