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...

Bournville students treated to Shakespeare show

Bournville School Macbeth show: It was ‘double double, toil and trouble’ for GCSE students at Bournville School, as they were treated to...

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...

Alumni needed for fast‑paced Bournville ‘Guess My Job’ event

Bournville Guess My Job event: Bournville School is inviting former students to take part in this summer’s Guess My Job careers event, designed...

arts

Two Gates school pupil Jack nets praise from star poet

Two Gates school pupil Jack Cairns netted football goodies and praise from a world-famous poet when he won a competition run by...

Hundreds return for Fairfax School anniversary reunion

Former pupils from all across the world returned to take part in the Fairfax School anniversary reunion – and to see a...

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...

Fairfax Academy show 2025 brings the magic of Queen alive

Fairfax Academy show 2025 - It’s a kind of magic! Fairfax Academy students made audiences go ga-ga with their rockin’ rendition of...

Arthur Terry alumni Jessika returns to inspire students

Arthur Terry alumni Jessika goes back to school: An up-an-coming pop star inspired students at her old school when she took to...

Fairfax Has Got Talent! Piano maestro Mindy wins annual contest

Fairfax Has Got Talent: Talented students at Fairfax Academy took to the stage to entertain their classmates in a colourful competition of...

Hill West Art Week puts pupils’ talents in the picture

Hill West Art Week is seeing talented pupils brush up on their artistic skills this summer, with budding artists able to view...

Fairfax Academy Eisteddfod 2022 – legendary festival raises the roof as audiences return

Fairfax Academy Eisteddfod 2022 - Fairfax’s annual arts festival lived up to its legendary status when students took to the stage to...

community

CARING PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS COLLECT GIFTS FOR NURSING HOME RESIDENTS

Curdworth Primary Christmas gifts - residents at a Coleshill nursing home are set to get some extra special Christmas presents, thanks to...

Digital revolution at Arthur Terry Learning Partnership with 11000 iPads for students and staff

Highly-respected multi-academy trust The Arthur Terry Learning Partnership (ATLP) is providing 11000 iPads to pupils and staff as part of its digital...

Nether Stowe Christmas jumper day raises cash for Save the Children

Nether Stowe Christmas jumper day: Students and staff donned festive knitwear, as part of a fun fundraising effort for Save The Children.

Fairfax Academy ADHD Award a ‘whole school effort’

Fairfax Academy ADHD Award: A Sutton Coldfield school has been recognised for proactively supporting neurodiverse learners after winning a national award.

Sport

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...

Fairfax Academy rugby partnership aims to develop future professional stars

Fairfax Academy rugby partnership: A Sutton Coldfield school with a proud rugby history is kicking off an exciting new era – after...

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...