Pioneering AI education scheme was born in Brum

Futures Readiness AI education: Tens of thousands of students across the country are learning about the impact AI will have on every aspect...

FMAT STEM students go behind the scenes at Donington Park motorsport visit

FMAT Donington Park visit: Students from across the Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust enjoyed a once‑in‑a‑lifetime opportunity to go behind the scenes at a major...

Fairfax U16s Football Team make history with four trophies in three weeks

Fairfax U16s Football Team: Fairfax Academy has four more trophies to add to its growing collection after the school’s Under‑16 Football Team won...

Erdington students level up their skills at gaming industry careers workshop

Erdington gaming careers workshop: Students from Erdington Academy had the chance to explore their dream job at a recent careers event focused on...

Fairfax Academy celebrated for excellence in inclusive education

Fairfax Inclusive Education Award: Fairfax Academy has been recognised nationally, winning the Best Practice for Inclusive Education Award at the 2026 Business Education...

Smith’s Wood Big Ideas team reaches final with flood alert concept

Smith’s Wood Big Ideas: Smith’s Wood Academy is celebrating after a team of Year 7 innovators secured a place in the 2026 Big...

arts

Bournville School Talent Showcase sees students ‘make memories for life’

Bournville School Talent Showcase: Talented young performers, from Bournville School, put on an unforgettable night of poetry, pop and plays in Bournville...

TALENTED JOHN WILLMOTT QUARTET FILL THE AIRWAVES FOR RADIO STAR’S VISIT

A talented John Willmott quartet provided the musical accompaniment when radio star Jeremy Vine appeared at the Town Hall.

Ambitious Bournville School production re-imagines classic fairy tale

An ambitious Bournville School production, crafted over months by students and staff, put two of literature’s best-known brothers on trial – with...

FMAT schools showcase 2024 – Bournville students star in a night to remember

FMAT schools showcase 2024: Talented students from Bournville School joined the other schools in the respected Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust at Birmingham University...

DON’T STOP US NOW! PUPILS GO GA-GA FOR QUEEN ROCK MUSICAL

Plantsbrook staged a musical filled with the music of Queen, and audiences went Ga-Ga for the ambitious show. More...

Fairfax School 60th anniversary marked with portrait of first headteacher

The Fairfax School 60th anniversary celebrations are to get a colourful addition - thanks to a highly-regarded Sutton Coldfield artist, who is...

Matilda at Perryfields Academy sees students take the stage

Matilda at Perryfields Academy: A Black Country secondary school has staged its first big musical production since the end of the pandemic...

Bournville School fashion workshop has business students learning by doing

Bournville School fashion workshop: Enterprising students at Bournville All-Through School showed they had a passion for fashion in an inspiring entrepreneurship programme.

community

Fairfax Academy exchange student returns after 36 years

Fairfax Academy exchange student returns: A former teenage student from Down Under who studied at Fairfax Academy in the 1980s took a...

Coleshill School allotment project sees students dig deep

A Coleshill School allotment project saw youngsters roll up their sleeves to help reshape a part of the grounds, in a project...

Stockland Green School alumni helping to inspire students

Stockland Green School alumni: The head of Stockland Green School says five dedicated staff members are evidence of the school’s community links...

An uplifting tail! Dog lends an ear to young readers

Reading dog Snoopy is driving Mere Green Primary School children ‘peanuts’, as the paw-fect new classmate brings added bounce to pupil’s reading...

Sport

FMAT STEM students go behind the scenes at Donington Park motorsport visit

FMAT Donington Park visit: Students from across the Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust enjoyed a once‑in‑a‑lifetime opportunity to go behind the scenes at a major...

St Chad’s soccer stars triumph in cross-school tournament 

ATLP Schools Soccer Tournament: Dozens of primary school children from five schools across Lichfield and Tamworth took to the football field for...

Smith’s Wood athletics stars head to School Games County Finals

Smith’s Wood athletics stars: Athletes from Smith’s Wood Academy are heading to the School Games County Finals next month after an outstanding performance...

ofsted/results

Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust gets national recognition for its commitment to wellbeing

Fairfax Multi‑Academy Trust (FMAT) has been shortlisted for Wellbeing Trust of the Year at the MAT Excellence Awards 2026, a national celebration...

Smith’s Wood Academy Ofsted report reveals remarkable turnaround

Smith’s Wood Academy has improved more than any other school in the country, after years of work trying to turn its fortunes...

King Edward VI Handsworth for boys ‘the best performing grammar school’ for A-level progress in Birmingham and Walsall

An inner-city school has been declared the best performing grammar school in Birmingham and Walsall for A Level progress.

sixth form

Fairfax’s Oliver wins Best Individual Speaker at Sutton Schools Debates

Fairfax Best Individual Speaker award: A talent for debate, developed through Fairfax Academy’s Debating Club, paid off for sixth former Oliver Murdoch, when...

Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School triumphs at Sutton Schools Debates 2026

Sutton Schools Debates 2026: Two gifted young debaters from Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School won the coveted trophy at this year’s Sutton Schools...

Arthur Terry High School Musical is a hit with audiences

Arthur Terry High School Musical: Talented young performers showed they are ‘all in this together’ with an all-singing, all-dancing production of a...

King Edward VI Handsworth for boys ‘the best performing grammar school’ for A-level progress in Birmingham and Walsall

An inner-city school has been declared the best performing grammar school in Birmingham and Walsall for A Level progress.

VIdeo

Hill West bee girls Isla and Emilie create a buzz with smoothie stall

Two enterprising Hill West bee girls created a buzz when they set up a stand selling refreshing smoothies to raise cash for...

Perryfields Academy free uniform offer to help struggling families

Perryfields Academy free uniform scheme: A Black Country secondary school is set to help families during the cost of living crisis –...

SIGNING SHRUBBERY SCHOOL PUPILS LET THEIR HANDS DO THE TALKING

Signing Shrubbery School pupils have been taught a handy new skill – by learning sign language. Pupils at the...

THE ORIGINAL SHRUBBERY SCHOOL HEADTEACHER TRIBUTE UNVEILED BY MP

The original Shrubbery School headteacher who founded the independent school has been remembered with a newly-refurbished building...