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Well done to Luke Guest and Ben Hayward who were both selected to play for the Year 7 North Solihull District Football Team after a successful trial. Both boys played against the South Solihull District Team and will be hoping to be selected again next year. Well done boys!

Over the past few weeks we have been hosting the Primary school netball league here at Grace Academy on a Tuesday afternoon.  It has been brilliant to invite students from Bishop Wilson, Marston Green, St Anne’s and St Anthony’s Primary School’s to showcase their netball skills. Well done to all students who participated in the…
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On Friday 27th May we welcomed Aston Villa WSL footballer Nat Haigh to the Academy to run a technical session to our Year 7 and 8 Girls Football team. The girls focussed on various skills on and off the ball, and defending within conditioned games. The girls also heard from Nat about her playing career…
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A huge congratulations to our terrific year 9 pupils!   On March 29th, the James Brindley Foundation, which strive to educate and support young people into a knife free life, visited the entire year 9 cohort to provide first person accounts of knife crime. All pupils were thoroughly engaged in conversation with Ezekiel, James and…
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The maths department would like to celebrate the success of our year 9 and 10 students who took part in the UK Intermediate Maths Challenge this year. This Maths challenge includes some very challenging maths problems, with our students in a competition against some of the best from across the whole country. Our students did…
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We had a fantastic time during the Easter break with our family enrichment programme. Our families participated in a family Easter cooking and movie day as well as a trip to Coombe Abbey. These activities took place over 2 days and were free to join. Some of the things that our families said about the…
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On 30th April the Year 12 Sport class went to Birmingham City University to take part in an Explore Sport day. They participated in 3 different workshops as well as a presentation on the different courses available in Sport and career progressions. Students experienced some of the practical facilities as well as lecture rooms. The…
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On Friday 25th March we welcomed 7 employers from a range of companies into Grace Academy to be part of our Year 11 mock interview day. All students took part in workshops delivered by Wilmott Dixon Construction before the interview day, this involved showing students an insight into the world of work, how to conduct…
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This term as part of World Book Day celebrations students in Year 7-9 have participated in the Young Writer’s Twisted Tales Creative Writing competition. As part of this competition students had to create their own retelling of a well-known fairy tale from the perspective of the villain in under 100 words. Over 150 students entered…
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The Sustainable Travel Team at Solihull MBC, are currently running ‘Dr Bike’ projects around the school’s in the borough to help young people keep their bikes safe and roadworthy. They visited Grace Academy last week and MOT’d 26 of our students’ bikes making their journey to and from school safer. Some of the works carried…
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