Year: 2017

Across the Academy, every student has been encouraged to bring in at least one item of food in a three-week appeal to help those in need this winter. Over 3000 tins and other non-perishable food items were collected last year and distributed to struggling families through Renewal’s Helping Hands ministry and Birmingham City Mission. Matthew…
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  Jess Jeys has just started work as a Year 2 primary school teacher at Stanton Bridge Primary School and says she wouldn’t be where she is today without the support and help she received while she was studying at Grace Academy. Sharing her story, Jess said: “I was very naughty in Years 7 and…
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  Year 12 student Ellie De’Athe has been awarded the Solihull Education Award for ‘Outstanding Progress in Mathematics’ by The Mayor of Solihull. One of Ellie’s teachers, Shaun Donald, Assistant Principal, said: “Ellie’s journey from getting D and E grades in the bottom set to achieving 8 A*s at GCSE, three grades better than the…
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Students at Grace Academy Solihull are celebrating achieving outstanding GCSE results after rapid improvements over the past three years, culminating in a ‘Good’ Ofsted rating in May. The Academy has retained its place as one of the highest performing and most improved schools in the region for the third year running with average attainment improving…
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Grace Academy Solihull’s Post-16 Centre continued to improve, with students achieving their best ever results for the third year running. The Academy is celebrating a 19% increase in the number of students achieving at least three A Level passes, and 86% of students entered for three A levels were successful. The average Applied A level…
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In new research, students at Grace Academy said the Academy is good at dealing with mental health issues, but they would like more direct teaching on it so they can recognise the signs and know what to look. The research, carried out by final year Aston University student Kelly Slack, was designed to assess students’…
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Year 13s set the ball rolling for a celebratory football match against teaching staff to mark the end of their final year at the Academy. Teachers Matt Godwin, Jake Upton, Blaine Wakeman, Anton Nunes and Tom Able, took on the Year 13s in a football play-off after school which saw the students competing on equal…
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Over 100 Year 11 students have been putting in extra time, out of hours, to attend revision sessions run by teachers over the past five to six weeks, including during the Easter break and May half-term holiday. The sessions included English, Maths, and Science, and exam booster classes in every subject across the curriculum.  Vice…
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  Tutor Group 11D are the deserving winners of our Best Attendance Award this term! This follows the Academy achieving its best attendance and exam results ever last year. Speaking about the importance of encouraging good attendance, 11D Form Tutor Steve Bradshaw, said, “Research shows that regular attendance and better grades tend to go hand…
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  Twelve local Brownies visited the Academy to practice their culinary skills using Grace Academy’s cooking facilities to make homemade pizza.  Brownie leader Charlotte Atkins said: “The cooking evening was fantastic because it let the girls cook dishes they would not have been able to do at Brownies. Because there was so much space it…
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