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We are delighted to announce that year 10 student Scarlet Colder is one of only 15 students going through to the final stage of this year’s Speak Out! competition. Her speech ‘Cancerous Beauty Standards’ is a hard look at how teenagers can face the impossible beauty standards inflicted on them, particularly when how you look…
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We are delighted to be one of ten finalists in this year’s Education Resource Awards, in the category of ‘Educational Establishment of the Year’.  

National Poetry Day celebrations have always been a great success at Grace Academy Solihull where students and staff alike are encouraged to enjoy, discover and share poetry. This year was no exception where students from key stage 3 entered the National Young Writers competition. The theme of the day was ‘This is Me’ which allowed…
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World Book Day is a huge charity event which is celebrated across the world especially in schools and community groups. This year, as always, Grace Academy Solihull students and staff celebrated this special occasion.  Each year we mark World Book Day at the academy with the aim to celebrate authors, books, illustrations and of course…
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We are delighted to celebrate the success of four of our students: Havanna Smith, Alana-Louise Bishop, Phoebe Fairshephard, and Kyla Irwin, who have successfully completed the Brilliant Club program. This success has come as a result of an almost 1 year process of working closely with a specialist tutor, to produced outstanding work in the…
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Following on from our successful visit to the Houses of Parliament in September last year. It was a pleasure to welcome our local MP, Saqib Bhatti, to Grace Academy Solihull on 01 March 2024. This was a fantastic opportunity to develop our students’ understanding of British Values and hear about how the electoral process works…
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We would like to acknowledge our year 9 and 10 students who participated in this year’s UK Intermediate Maths Challenge. This annual competition is one which asks students to tackle interesting questions and develop their problem solving skills, while competing against students across the UK. This year, we have had some fantastic results, with 11…
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Our students in the ARC have been continuing their work with the local charity, SoLO. During last term, students worked very hard in creating decorations and items to sell at our Christmas fair, and all proceeds were donated to SoLO. Our students were able to raise an amazing £125.60 which will go towards supporting vulnerable…
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As part of their A-level psychology course Y12 students have been studying the topic of Biopsychology. As a way of embedding localisation and lateralisation of function they made jelly brains.    Students gave up their own lunchtime to make the jelly and put this into the brain moulds. To develop their knowledge they created labels…
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On the last weekend of September, 32 students from the Academy embarked on a two-day expedition as part of their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh’s (DofE) Award. For many this would be a significant challenge with over three hours of walking each day carrying heavy backpacks. Not only would there be a physical challenge, there would…
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