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

Mere Green Primary music excellence recognised with lead role in Birmingham

Mere Green Primary music stars: Mere Green Primary School’s fantastic commitment to music has been rewarded after being given a prestigious new...

John Willmott music star Alfie makes a grand entrance in Birmingham

John Willmott music star Alfie Bennett has been a big hit at Birmingham’s New Street Station this week, showing the world that...

West Coventry Academy writers see their work featured in anthology

West Coventry Academy writers who penned creepy Gothic tales have become published authors, after taking part in a writing programme run by...

Fairfax Academy unveils vibrant new murals

Fairfax Academy wall art: Fairfax Academy students are feeling a renewed sense of pride in their school community thanks to vibrant new murals...

Artwork by West Coventry Academy students lights up major exhibition

Artwork created by talented students from West Coventry Academy has gone on show in a stunning project at the National Memorial Arboretum,...

Fairfax Academy Eisteddfod 2025 embraces the carnival spirit

Fairfax Academy Eisteddfod 2025: Roll up, roll up! Fairfax Academy’s annual Eisteddfod brought a splash of festive magic to the school, as...

Fairfax pupils blast off to Forbidden Planet

Students blasted off for an out-of-this-world school production of Return to the Forbidden Planet at Fairfax School. More than...

Erdington Academy students set to perform at Hippodrome

Talented Erdington Academy students will be treading the boards at Birmingham’s most prestigious theatre, after working with a professional artist.

community

William MacGregor anti-bullying week project sends ‘one kind word’

William MacGregor anti-bullying week: Youngsters at a Tamworth school were floating on air last week when they each collected a balloon from...

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...

Perryfields Academy Christmas – Caring Finley collects gifts for needy children

Perryfields Academy Christmas: A kind-hearted student has ensured that less fortunate youngsters will have a brighter Christmas – by collecting presents for...

The Royal Sutton School – ‘excitement and pride’ as former John Willmott is reborn

The Royal Sutton School: A ‘reborn’ Sutton Coldfield school which has been on mission to drive up standards and instill pride has...

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...