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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 7 DECEMBER 2014 Opinion 28 A concept F rom its humble roots as an experiment by the previous administration, the National Sports School (NSS) can now look forward to a new €2.8 million home in Pembroke. Last week Prime Minister Joseph Muscat laid the foundation stone of this project. The timeframe for the completion of the new school is ambitious but we are definitely on the right track. The NSS project started back in 2012 with an intake of around 40 first year students in a couple of borrowed classrooms at St Benedict's College in Kirkop. Those 40 children were chosen from a modest group of applicants, the majority of whom were footballers. Another 40 children were added in 2013. NSS children were being taught scholastically by teachers shared with St Benedict's and their sports disciplines taught primarily in facilities operated by the Kunsill Malti Għall-Isport adjoining the school. But, the NSS craved, and indeed deserved, a home. So, a few short months into the Government's first term, a project team from the Education Ministry, the Foundation for Tomorrow's Schools (FTS) and the NSS's Scholastic Council began the search for an ideal premises for the school across a good number of schools that were being phased out. A short list of premises was drawn up and feasibility studies were carried out. Through these studies it became evident that one site, the Evarist Bartolo Are we resting on our laurels now the NSS is all set? Of course not. The NSS is a catalyst to getting sport firmly back into mainstream education