Events

Pioneering AI education scheme was born in Brum

Gary Phelps - 0
Futures Readiness AI education: Tens of thousands of students across the country are learning about the impact AI will have on every aspect...
Read more
Bournville School

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

Gary Phelps - 0
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...
Read more
Uncategorized

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

Gary Phelps - 0
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...
Read more
Erdington Academy

Erdington students level up their skills at gaming industry careers workshop

Gary Phelps - 0
Erdington gaming careers workshop: Students from Erdington Academy had the chance to explore their dream job at a recent careers event focused on...
Read more
Fairfax Academy

Fairfax Academy celebrated for excellence in inclusive education

Gary Phelps - 0
Fairfax Inclusive Education Award: Fairfax Academy has been recognised nationally, winning the Best Practice for Inclusive Education Award at the 2026 Business Education...
Read more
Events

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

Gary Phelps - 0
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...
Read more

arts

Arts

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

Gary Phelps - 0
Bournville School Talent Showcase: Talented young performers, from Bournville School, put on an unforgettable night of poetry, pop and plays in Bournville...
Read more
Arts

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

UK School News - 0
A talented John Willmott quartet provided the musical accompaniment when radio star Jeremy Vine appeared at the Town Hall.
Read more
Arts

Ambitious Bournville School production re-imagines classic fairy tale

Gary Phelps - 0
An ambitious Bournville School production, crafted over months by students and staff, put two of literature’s best-known brothers on trial – with...
Read more
Arts

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

Gary Phelps - 0
FMAT schools showcase 2024: Talented students from Bournville School joined the other schools in the respected Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust at Birmingham University...
Read more
Arts

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

UK School News - 0
Plantsbrook staged a musical filled with the music of Queen, and audiences went Ga-Ga for the ambitious show. More...
Read more
Arts

Fairfax School 60th anniversary marked with portrait of first headteacher

UK School News - 0
The Fairfax School 60th anniversary celebrations are to get a colourful addition - thanks to a highly-regarded Sutton Coldfield artist, who is...
Read more
Arts

Matilda at Perryfields Academy sees students take the stage

UK School News - 0
Matilda at Perryfields Academy: A Black Country secondary school has staged its first big musical production since the end of the pandemic...
Read more
Arts

Bournville School fashion workshop has business students learning by doing

Gary Phelps - 0
Bournville School fashion workshop: Enterprising students at Bournville All-Through School showed they had a passion for fashion in an inspiring entrepreneurship programme.
Read more

community

Community

Fairfax Academy exchange student returns after 36 years

Gary Phelps - 0
Fairfax Academy exchange student returns: A former teenage student from Down Under who studied at Fairfax Academy in the 1980s took a...
Read more
Community

Coleshill School allotment project sees students dig deep

UK School News - 0
A Coleshill School allotment project saw youngsters roll up their sleeves to help reshape a part of the grounds, in a project...
Read more
Community

Stockland Green School alumni helping to inspire students

Gary Phelps - 0
Stockland Green School alumni: The head of Stockland Green School says five dedicated staff members are evidence of the school’s community links...
Read more
Community

An uplifting tail! Dog lends an ear to young readers

UK School News - 0
Reading dog Snoopy is driving Mere Green Primary School children ‘peanuts’, as the paw-fect new classmate brings added bounce to pupil’s reading...
Read more

Sport

Bournville School

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

Gary Phelps - 0
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...
Read more
Events

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

Gary Phelps - 0
ATLP Schools Soccer Tournament: Dozens of primary school children from five schools across Lichfield and Tamworth took to the football field for...
Read more
Events

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

Gary Phelps - 0
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...
Read more

ofsted/results

Bournville School

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

Gary Phelps - 0
Fairfax Multi‑Academy Trust (FMAT) has been shortlisted for Wellbeing Trust of the Year at the MAT Excellence Awards 2026, a national celebration...
Read more
Ofsted/Results

Smith’s Wood Academy Ofsted report reveals remarkable turnaround

Gary Phelps - 0
Smith’s Wood Academy has improved more than any other school in the country, after years of work trying to turn its fortunes...
Read more
King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys

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

Gary Phelps - 0
An inner-city school has been declared the best performing grammar school in Birmingham and Walsall for A Level progress.
Read more

sixth form

Events

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

Gary Phelps - 0
Fairfax Best Individual Speaker award: A talent for debate, developed through Fairfax Academy’s Debating Club, paid off for sixth former Oliver Murdoch, when...
Read more
Bishop Vesey's Grammar School

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

Gary Phelps - 0
Sutton Schools Debates 2026: Two gifted young debaters from Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School won the coveted trophy at this year’s Sutton Schools...
Read more
Arts

Arthur Terry High School Musical is a hit with audiences

Gary Phelps - 0
Arthur Terry High School Musical: Talented young performers showed they are ‘all in this together’ with an all-singing, all-dancing production of a...
Read more
King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys

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

Gary Phelps - 0
An inner-city school has been declared the best performing grammar school in Birmingham and Walsall for A Level progress.
Read more

VIdeo

Charity

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

UK School News - 0
Two enterprising Hill West bee girls created a buzz when they set up a stand selling refreshing smoothies to raise cash for...
Read more
Perryfields Academy

Perryfields Academy free uniform offer to help struggling families

UK School News - 0
Perryfields Academy free uniform scheme: A Black Country secondary school is set to help families during the cost of living crisis –...
Read more
Community

SIGNING SHRUBBERY SCHOOL PUPILS LET THEIR HANDS DO THE TALKING

UK School News - 0
Signing Shrubbery School pupils have been taught a handy new skill – by learning sign language. Pupils at the...
Read more
Events

THE ORIGINAL SHRUBBERY SCHOOL HEADTEACHER TRIBUTE UNVEILED BY MP

UK School News - 0
The original Shrubbery School headteacher who founded the independent school has been remembered with a newly-refurbished building...
Read more
© UK School News is part of the service provided by Gary Phelps Communications Ltd, specialists in PR, publicity and editorial services for schools. Text and images are subject to copyright. For more details on how your school or Multi-Academy Trust can be featured on UK School News, email garyphelpscomms@outlook.com or visit www.garyphelpscomms.co.uk