A PUBLIC meeting will be held tonight next week (April 24) on a new school for the area.

The International Academy of Greenwich is holding a public consultation on its plans for a non-selective, state-funded secondary school, due to open its doors to 100 new students in September.

It claims the focus will be "creating global citizens who speak one or more European languages to a high level" following the IB Middle Years Programme, designed for 11 to 16-year-olds.

The academy, eventually growing in capacity to 700 pupils, is due to be situated on a temporary site for one year in the Greenwich area.

Negotiations are ongoing over a permanent site closer to The O2.

The meeting takes place at 6.30pm in Charlton House.

Visit internationalacademygreenwich.org.uk for details