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Students Join Forces With Businesses To Spread The Christmas Cheer

Catering students put their culinary talents to good use by cooking a free festive Christmas feast for 55 elderly residents, using ingredients supplied by local Chelmsley Wood businesses. Budding chefs from Grace Academy Solihull produced a gourmet spread for the local community with donations from businesses in the Poolway Shopping Centre, giving them valuable experience…
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Students With Business Flair Compete In The Dragon’s Den

Entrepreneurial students have put their business acumen to the test after pitching their innovative business concepts to a panel of real business experts from Santander UK. Students from Grace Academy Solihull competed against students from Grace Academy Darlaston and Coventry to impress the Dragon’s Den judges with their entrepreneurial flair. Commenting on the competition one…
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Food Donations Help Those In Need

Grace Academy was delighted that students, parents and carers donated over 2000 tins of food to help the homeless and those in need this Christmas. The generous collection will be given to Helping Hands, a Solihull-based charity that delivers food parcels to around 3000 parents and children every year, and Birmingham City Mission that has…
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Solihull Community Choir Performs Stunning Nativity With Students

    Solihull’s Grace Community Choir joined local students for the first time, to perform a stunning evening of festive music and drama in a theatrical adaptation of the traditional Christmas story. Grace Community Choir, which is open to new members, sang a feast of Christmas favourites with students from Grace Academy Solihull, in an…
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Mountain-Biking Challenge Promotes Healthy Travel

Students have tackled ramps, balancing beams and see-saws in cycling skills training designed to promote healthy travel. Students from Grace Academy Solihull pitted their wits against a variety of challenges on a mountain-biking obstacle course organised by Centro, the West Midlands public transport co-ordinator. Centro is promoting cycling in schools across the West Midlands, encouraging…
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Chelmsley Residents Serenaded For Remembrance

Eighty one year old evacuee, Beryl Keating from Chelmsley Wood, joined other senior citizens and Grace Academy students at a musical tea party to commemorate Remembrance Day. Beryl Keating, whose father was in a bomb disposal unit during the war, joined other guests to be serenaded over tea and cake by West End performer and…
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Students Celebrate New Theatre Company By Showcasing Talents

  Our students celebrated the launch of their new theatre company, ‘Inspire’, by showcasing their singing, dancing and acting talents in the first of a series of performances to be held throughout the year. Over one hundred students from Grace Academy Solihull auditioned to be part of the new theatre company designed to offer them…
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Students Build Houses in Mexico For Families in Need

A team of eighteen students from Grace Academy Solihull has transformed the lives of two Mexican families in need, by building houses for them from scratch, with only hand tools, in only eleven days. The Solihull students joined students from five UK Secondary Schools, including Grace Academies in Coventry and Darlaston, to build two houses…
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Cancer Research UK Fundraising

On 4th February, World Cancer Day, the entire nation will unite to accelerate progress in the fight against cancer. Your support is what’s driving each breakthrough that makes beating cancer sooner a reality. In fact, in the last 40 years supporter-funded research has helped double UK survival rates. We can’t stop there. Here at Grace…
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Year 9 “Building Healthy Relationships” Day: Thursday 4th May

All year 9 students will be taking part in an off-timetable day on Thursday, 4th May, as part of their Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Personal, Social, Health Education (PSHE) programme.  This is part of the Grace Academy “Building Healthy Relationships” Ethos provision. The day will include a carousel of workshops with specialist external…
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