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Staff at Solihull School, an independent primary and secondary school, said the scheme aimed to help pupils kick off the new year with less screen time and instill a love of reading instead ...
The school is based across two campuses. Solihull Senior School on the Warwick Road campus currently occupies a site of approximately 65 acres (260,000 m 2).This is partly as a result of a former headmaster, Warin Foster Bushell, who in the 1920s bought much of the land himself when the governors refused to finance the purchase out of school funds.
Oak Cottage Primary School, Solihull; Olton Primary School, Olton; Our Lady of Compassion RC Primary School, Solihull; Our Lady of the Wayside RC Primary School, Shirley; Peterbrook Primary School, Shirley; St Alphege CE Infant School, Solihull; St Alphege CE Junior School, Solihull; St Andrew's RC Primary School, Solihull; St Anne's RC Primary ...
The school in its present form was created in 1974 following a merger between Olton Court Convent School (founded in 1903) and Bishop Glancey High school. The Sixth Form was added in 1994. [2] Previously a voluntary aided school administered by Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, in April 2021 St Peter's Catholic School converted to academy ...
Smith's Wood School was awarded specialist Sports College status in September 2006 and was renamed Smith's Wood Sports College. Formerly a community school administered by Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, in April 2017 Smith's Wood Sports College converted to academy status and was renamed Smith's Wood Academy. The school is now sponsored ...
The school became fully comprehensive in 1974, the year the County Borough of Solihull became the larger Metropolitan Borough of Solihull. In 1984, Solihull LEA looked at the possibility of returning to a selective system of schools (made possible because the 1976 Education Act was repealed in 1979), and making the school a grammar school.
Solihull School continued to grow during that period. Arthur Tolkien, father of J. R. R. Tolkien (the author of The Lord of the Rings series of books) was a pupil there during the 1860s. J. R. R. Tolkien mentioned Solihull and Solihull School in some of his letters. J. R. R. Tolkien's son Michael went on to teach at Solihull School in the 1950s ...
Lode Heath School is an Academy secondary school in the Lode Heath district of Solihull, West Midlands, England. It is situated approximately 1 mile north of Solihull town centre off the B425 towards Sheldon, Birmingham .