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Year 11, 12 & 13 students should attend the academy as usual. Please find below the links for students complete while they work remotely. For more information about the strike action please see the letter sent home from the academy.    Year 7 Lesson 1 Comparing fractions Lesson 2  Baroque Music Lesson 3  East India…
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Grace Academy Solihull would like to wish those of our staff and students celebrating today Eid Mubarak.  

Over the last 2 weeks, during tutor sessions and assemblies, students have been exploring the Easter Story. Year 7 students also completed specific RE lessons focusing on the theme of “A time to put others first” – highlighting how the act of love and sacrifice, that Christians believe Jesus showed during the Easter story, can…
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As part of our Year 12 Sport Course our students attended an ‘Explore Sport’ taster day at Birmingham City University. During the day our students visited three Sport Masterclasses from Lecturers at Birmingham City University, which gave them all an insight into University life and careers available to them relating to sport.   The Sports…
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Between March 6 – 10, Grace Academy Solihull celebrated National Careers Week. Over the course of the week each year group was provided with a careers assembly delivered by a range of industry professionals from the RAF to leading payroll organisations.  Our year 10 students worked with EmployabilityUK in targeted workshops aimed at developing a range of…
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On Monday 13 March, 6 academy students were given the opportunity to visit a Willmott Dixon construction project. Willmott Dixon is a privately-owned contracting and interior fit-out group that delivers a huge variety of projects and services that have a positive impact on people’s lives. It is their philosophy that everyone has a unique potential and…
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The Duke of Edinburgh’s (DofE) Award is a brilliant opportunity for young people to develop skills outside the classroom and we are excited to have introduced this programme to students in Years 9 and 10 at Grace Academy Solihull from this year.  It will give students the chance to take on new challenges via the…
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After a very successful Summer School, which was funded by the Department for Education, Grace Academy Solihull was selected from a pool of secondary schools across the country to receive £500 worth of book tokens, which is an unexpected but welcome outcome. The Academy aims to put part of this funding towards further supporting our…
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Students soak in the sun and sights during their action-packed trip to Barcelona this October half term.       With visits to the Volcanic national park, Arc de Triomf, a guided tour of Sagrada Familia, and (of course!) a quick stop at Camp Nou Stadium and Barcelona beach, pupils had a fantastic time catching…
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Year 9 and 11 students recently took part in a fantastic Medical Mavericks workshop, gaining insight into the inner workings of the human body, trying their hand at real-life medical procedures and finding out more about career paths in health science.   Students had the opportunity to try out professional equipment in order to calculate…
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