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Drapers' Academy
Gets Final
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The Secretary of
State for
Children,
Schools and
Families, Ed
Balls, signed
the Funding
Agreement in
early December
2009 signalling
the
establishment of
Drapers' Academy
in Harold Hill.
It confirms that
the Academy will
come into being
on 1st September
2010, ready to
accept its first
students when
the Academy
opens for the
autumn term next
year.
"This marks a
big step forward
in the provision
of secondary
education for
the children of
Harold Hill,"
said Schools
Minister Vernon
Croakers. "We
are particularly
pleased to have
secured the
support of these
two sponsors.
The combination
of the Drapers'
company, with a
history of
supporting
education over
many centuries,
and Queen Mary
University of
London, one of
the country's
leading
universities,
promises to
bring really top
class education
to the area. The
specialisms of
this Academy -
mathematics and
science - will
help encourage
greater numbers
of students to
focus on these
subjects."
It is expected
that the
students of
King's Wood
School will
provide the core
of the Academy,
along with the
majority of the
teaching staff
at the school.
Matthew Slater,
who was recently
appointed as
Principal
(Designate) is
keen to
implement the
vision of the
Academy's
sponsors. "There
is a lot to be
done over the
next twelve
months", he
says, "but I am
looking forward
to implementing
the exciting
plans we have
for a top class
secondary school
in Harold Hill.
We are
determined to
make Drapers'
Academy into a
school which
will be a source
of pride to the
local
community." As
soon as the
Academy opens
its doors in
2010 work will
start on the
brand new
buildings which
the students and
staff will
occupy two years
later.
Everything will
be done in the
meantime to
ensure that as
little
disturbance as
possible for
them occurs
during the
school day. Over
the coming few
years the
Academy will
expand to its
full capacity of
1,100, including
200 sixth form
students.
Commenting on
the signing of
the Funding
Agreement by the
Secretary of
State, Adrian
Lyons, Chair of
the Drapers'
Academy Trust,
said, "We are
delighted Ed
Balls has given
his go ahead for
us to open the
Academy in
September next
year. From Day
one our core
purpose will be
to ensure that
all our students
achieve highly
and our key
priority will be
to provide an
environment
which excites,
motivates and
challenges them.
We have a great
partnership with
the London
Borough of
Havering, as
well as many on
Harold Hill,
particularly
those at King's
Wood School.
These
partnerships
have been the
key that has
allowed us to
make such
successful
progress." |
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| Election of Master and Wardens |
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Following the elections by the Court of Assistants the newly elected Master and Wardens were sworn into office on 21st July 2009 prior to the Election Dinner that evening at which they were ceremonially crowned in one of the Company's oldest ceremonies.
Professor Graham Zellick CBE has been elected Master for the year ensuing. Graham has been President of the Valuation Tribunal for England since January 2009, following five years as Chairman of the Criminal Cases Review Commission. Before that, he was Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of London, an Electoral Commissioner and Principal of Queen Mary and Westfield College.
He was educated at Cambridge (where he read law and obtained a PhD) and Stanford universities. For the first 20 years of his career, he was an academic lawyer at Queen Mary College, becoming Professor of Public Law at 34 (the youngest professor in the UK at the time), Drapers’ Professor of Law, Head of the Department of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Laws. He chaired the Committee of Heads of UK Law Schools, was Editor of Public Law and founding Editor of European Human Rights Reports. He is a barrister and associate tenant of chambers in Gray’s Inn. He has been a Visiting Scholar of St John’s College, Oxford and twice a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto. He is an Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Birmingham and Visiting Professor of Law at Queen Mary, University of London.
Public appointments have included membership of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Aid; South Thames Regional Health Authority; East London and the City Health Authority; and the Criminal Justice Council. Earlier judicial appointments included membership of the Data Protection Tribunal; the Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel; the Competition Appeal Tribunal; and the North Westminster Bench as a JP.
Bodies he has chaired include Leo Baeck College; Richmond, The American International University in London; The Tel Aviv University Trust Lawyers’ Group; and the Prisoners’ Advice and Law Service; and he was President of the West London [Reform] Synagogue, Marble Arch, London. He is currently Chairman of the Reform Club Conservation Trust.
He holds four honorary degrees and six honorary fellowships (including Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, the Royal Academy of Music and the Society for Advanced Legal Studies); is Emeritus Professor of Law in the University of London; Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple; an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences; and a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute. He was appointed CBE in 2009 for services to the Administration of Justice. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of Medicine.
Professor Zellick has been married since 1975 to Jennie (Professor Jennifer Temkin LLD, AcSS, FRSA, Barrister and Bencher of the Middle Temple, Professor of Law, University of Sussex). They live in London and Rutland and have two children, both graduates of Caius College, Cambridge and both Drapers (Adam, who is a Liveryman, practises at the Commercial Bar in London; Lara, a Freeman, is a solicitor at Freshfields in the City).
The four Wardens elected are: Major-General Adrian Lyons CBE (Master Warden), Anthony Walker (Second Master Warden), Peter Bottomley MP (Renter Warden) and Gareth Clutton (Junior Warden).
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| Drapers’ Hall, Throgmorton Avenue, by Francis Farmar |
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| The Drapers’ Company is delighted to announce that it recently commissioned Liveryman, Francis Farmar to paint a watercolour depicting Drapers’ Hall. The resulting painting was unveiled to much acclaim at the Election Dinner in 2003.
The painting is characterised by Francis’s technique of using a bird’s-eye panorama, a technique that has a long tradition stretching back to the sixteenth century.
Limited edition glicée prints of this painting are now available for purchase. All prints are hand signed and numbered by the artist.
The Painting
With the exception of the buildings in the right hand foreground, all the buildings shown in detail in the painting comprise the island site bounded by Throgmorton Avenue, Throgmorton Street and Austin Friars that has been owned by the Drapers’ Company since 1543. The buildings include both Drapers’ Hall, with its courtyard and garden, and other late 19th century office buildings that are held as property investments.
The Artist
Francis Farmar has been a Liveryman of the Drapers’ Company since 1973. His father, Hugh Farmar, was Clerk to the Company from 1952 to 1973.
After training in Italy, then St. Martin’s College of Art London and the West of England College of Art, Francis abandoned painting for fifteen years, to work for the auctioneers Christie’s, becoming Director of the Modern British Picture department.
In 1986, Francis left London to live in Scotland and began painting again. He later moved his base to the Wiltshire/Dorset border from where he travels extensively abroad. He has had one-man exhibitions in London each year since 1992 and has also shown work at many mixed shows in the UK and abroad. Latterly many of his works have been paintings of houses and estates commissioned by private or corporate clients.
For further information about commissions and exhibitions, please refer to Francis’s website: www.francisfarmar.com
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Glicée Print Details
Size: 18" x 18"
Edition Copies: 250
Format: Unmounted
Medium: Limited edition glicée on paper
Price: £95.00
60% of the profits from the sale of the prints will go to the Company’s Gift and Legacy Fund.
For further enquiries and how you can purchase please
tel 020 7588 5001 or
email mail@thedrapers.co.uk
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