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UCL IOE CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE 15 Institute of Education UCL IOE CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE FOR SCHOOLS The UCL Institute of Education Confucius Institute (IOE CI) is a bilateral collaboration with Peking University (PKU) and Peking University High School and generously supported by Hanban. The UCL Institute of Established in 2007, Schools across the country are This outreach development work is Education Confucius IOE CI is leading the way increasingly offering Mandarin made possible through the support Institute for Schools is in expanding teaching a bilateral collaboration of Mandarin Chinese Chinese as an option for their of Peking University High School with Peking University to an increasing number students. The IOE CI supports and a team of Hanban teachers and Peking University of learners in schools schools in the sustainable who come to work with the IOE in England. High School and is development of the teaching and Confucius Classrooms each year. generously supported learning of Mandarin Chinese by Hanban. Founded in 1902, the Institute and the study of China across of Education currently has other areas of the curriculum. more than 8,000 students and As well as a small team of 800 staff. In December 2014 it specialists in London, the IOE became a single-faculty school CI has an extensive network of of UCL, called the UCL Institute secondary and primary Confucius of Education (IOE). IOE is a world Classrooms across England, leading centre for research and schools which have Mandarin teaching in education and social Chinese firmly embedded in the science and is a major provider curriculum and which give advice, of teacher education. support and taster classes to other schools in their region looking to start offering Chinese. IOE Confucius Institute UCL Institute of Education University College London 20 Bedford Way London WC1H 0AL [email protected] http://ci.ioe.ac.uk UK calls: 020 7612 6000 International calls: +44 20 7612 6000 UCL IOE CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE A MODEL CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE The UCL IOE Confucius Institute (IOE CI) is thriving and is leading the drive to solve one of the key challenges of changing practice and attitudes to Mandarin Chinese teaching in schools: how to develop an infrastructure for teaching the subject. IOE CI’s vision is that every child the option for common themes to in England who wishes to is be discussed with larger groups able to learn Chinese and that of teachers and then smaller every school has access to high group activities and collaborative quality Chinese teaching. Key exercises to take place throughout to the realisation of this vision is the building. the development of the effective The IOE CI building will serve teaching of Chinese language in to enable significant growth in schools in England and beyond, so the infrastructure for teaching that all young people can benefit Mandarin Chinese in English from this new linguistic and cultural schools, and to establish London horizon in the future. Through IOE as the centre in Europe for Chinese CI, teachers in English schools teaching and learning in schools, have actively participated in the with huge long-term benefits for joint development of a Chinese children and young people and language learning network that for the development of the now reaches almost a thousand bilateral relationship between teachers nationwide and in other the UK and China. Anglophone countries. June 22nd 2017 marks the official opening of the restored and refurbished IOE CI building at Between 2008 and 2015, 15 Woburn Square. This building the number of entries will be the base for IOE CI’s work to Chinese GCSE’s increased by almost – a teacher training, administrative 70 per cent. and research centre. Using the flexible seminar spaces for teacher training will ensure that the building is utilised to its full potential and will ensure that the most effective teaching practice can be developed for implementation in schools. The teacher training spaces enable UCL IOE CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE During the 20th and 21st However shortly after this a late brief to Denys Lasdun, architect of centuries, the expansion 19th century shift in demographics the National Theatre, to design a BLOOMSBURY CHARACTER of Bloomsbury continued particularly around the saw Bloomsbury’s prosperous new extension to the SOAS Library University of London residents moving to the attractive and a building along Bedford way and hospitals. suburbs further to the north, to accommodate the Institute of and a new wave of commercial, Education. 15 Woburn Square is situated in the heart of educational and cultural occupants A student-led campaign fought Bloomsbury. Like much of what we now call London, moved in. to preserve Woburn Square, Bloomsbury began life as agricultural and pastoral University buildings such as earmarked for demolition to make land, owned by a series of manors. The aristocratic Charles Holden’s Art Deco Senate way for Lasdun’s Brutalist designs. hold on the land within the Conservation Area was House, came to dominate the But, following a highly publicised strengthened when the manor of Bloomsbury, seized area, ushering in new styles battle between campaigners and streetscapes. In 1943, and the university, much of at the Dissolution in 1550, was assigned to the 1st Abercrombie’s County of London the square, including the 1831 Earl of Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley. In 1669 Plan officially set aside Bloomsbury Neo-Gothic Christ Church, was ownership of the estate passed on to the Russell family, to become a designated university flattened to make way for a new, the Dukes of Bedford, who still own the land today. quarter, and Leslie Martin’s 1959 modern university campus. Luckily Bloomsbury development plan was numbers 10-18 survived, and produced. Commissioned by the have since been repurposed as University of London, it set out a university buildings. It was the building of Covent Demand for middle-class housing Garden by the Duke of Bedford’s rocketed in the later Georgian and Inigo Jones (top), architect architect, Inigo Jones, in the Regency periods, and development of Covent Garden and 1630s that strongly influenced expanded rapidly to cater to a Thomas Cubitt, principal builder of the Bedford the development of the character newly affluent class. It was in this Estate. of Bloomsbury we see today. period that Thomas Cubitt became 15 Woburn Square is Previously a warren of narrow principal builder on the Bedford a former residential townhouse and grade II medieval streets and courtyards, Estate and built Tavistock Square, listed building that forms Jones’ introduction of Palladian Gordon Square, Woburn Place and part of a larger terrace of architecture to the United Kingdom neighbouring streets. 19th century townhouses paved the way for the area to formerly framing the centrepiece of Christ flourish as a fashionable location Church (demolished 1974). for the wealthy. UCL IOE CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE HERITAGE 15 WOBURN SQUARE 15 Woburn Square is a former residential townhouse, part of a Grade II listed terrace built around 1829 by James Sim. Built from yellow stock brick, the terrace displays the regular proportion and symmetry typical of the Georgian Neo-Classical style. Number 15 has a distinctive wrought iron overthrow that frames its entrance. A lozenge-shaped frame in the centre would have once held a lamp, and the curious trumpet-shaped objects attached to the sides tell an interesting story of how the streets would have looked in the early 19th century. The trumpet-shaped objects were Earlier painted timber sash known as ‘snuffers’, and they were windows have been lost with the used to extinguish the burning introduction of French doors and torches held by ‘link-boys’, young casement windows on the first boys employed to light the way and second floors, and the sashes for pedestrians at night before the that remain have a different glazing widespread introduction of street pattern to others on the terrace, lighting. Few of these remain in suggesting they were refitted in the London, but they would once later renovation. have adorned the outside of many Despite these alterations, and well-to-do residences in the city. subsequently the partitioning for its The original architectural character conversion to offices, the legibility of the terrace remains largely of the original historic plan with its Woburn Square East Terrace unscathed, with later alterations distinct hierarchy of levels remains List Entry description dating to Number 15 being mainly to the intact. This hierarchy is expressed from 1974 interior scheme. Highly decorative through tall ceilings and generously “Terrace of 9 houses. c1829. tiled fireplace surrounds are proportioned rooms for the higher Built by James Sim, James evidence of a late 19th or early status upper and ground floor Sim Jnr and Robert Sim. Yellow stock brick, having evidence of 20th century redecoration in an levels, and more modest detailing tuck pointing, with stucco 1st Aesthetic Movement style. Original in the basement and upper floors, floor sill band… 4 storeys and Georgian decorative features reserved for living and working basements. 2 windows each. that remain include joinery such quarters for domestic servants. Gauged brick round arches to as skirtings, panelled doors One of the key aims of this recessed doorways with radial patterned fanlights and double and picture rails, and ornate renovation was to reverse these panelled doors. Continuous plasterwork cornices and later interior partitions and return cast-iron balconies to 1st floor Overall the legibility of ceiling roses. Number 15 to this original windows (mostly casements). the original historic Georgian scheme. Gauged brick flat arches to layout remains intact recessed mostly sash windows. within the building at 15 Woburn Square. Attached cast-iron railings with pineapple finials to areas, all with footscrapers. No.15 with wrought-iron overthrow with lamp-holder and 2 snuffers.” UCL IOE CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE BUILDING ENHANCEMENTS The repair and refurbishment of 15 Woburn Square reveals the layers of history in a Georgian townhouse and reflects a creative collaboration of cultures.