Year: 2018

What a pleasure it was to attend the Jaguar Land Rover Solihull Education Awards Ceremony and see former student Gracie Kerr presented with the “Most Improved Student in Maths” award. Parents were so proud and wanted to thank the school and staff for their hard work during Gracie’s time at the Grace Academy.

A talented team from Grace Academy are celebrating a bronze medal win in the Sainsbury’s Birmingham School Games’ Under 14 badminton championship at Smiths Wood Academy. Callum Crowton, Callum Page, Cavon Phillips and Josh Harris competed against 10 teams from schools across North Solihull to clinch the medal. Talking about how they won the bronze…
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Today Year 11 joined in the live streaming of the RSC’s Romeo and Juliet Production #RSCRomeo. The pupils are enthralled by Mercutio (Hercutio). Its been lovely to have them recite the lines along with the cast.   Year 11 pupils watching the RSC’s live performance of Romeo and Juliet to support their GCSE course  

Mrs Knight and Mrs Walton took the year 9 Girls badminton team to the Warwickshire and Solihull games this evening. 12 teams were competing in the competition and the Grace team came away with a very well deserved bronze medal. Notaya and Aisha played the singles matches and won all their games convincingly in the…
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KINGS NORTON BOYS SCHOOL 4 – 4 GRACE ACADEMY SOLIHULL (GAS WON 4-1 ON PENALTIES)   Yesterday afternoon the Year 7 Team started their journey in the West Midlands Cup with an away fixture at Kings Norton Boys. A difficult first round tie was made even more challenging by an hours journey resulting in us…
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Viewpoint – Darren Gelder, Principal “I am incredibly proud of the achievements and outcomes that all our students have made. There have been some outstanding individual performances, which reflect the hard work of staff, students, parents and carers. Regardless of the context of our setting, our results put us in the same league as some…
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Mason Hindley, Year 10, is celebrating being Aston Villa’s top goal scorer last season for their Villa Rockets team. The football pro has been playing for Villa Rockets since he was talent spotted at a trial at Grace Academy when he was in Year 8.  Since then he joined the Aston Villa training sessions and…
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