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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.
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 ...
Light Hall School is a secondary school located in Shirley, West Midlands, England. Light Hall School was established on Hathaway Road in 1965 [1] as a boys' grammar school on land once belonging to Light Hall Farm. Light Hall School is one of sixteen secondary schools in the UK Metropolitan Borough of Solihull.
Castlewood School, Castle Bromwich Daylesford Academy, Smith's Wood Forest Oak School, Smith's Wood; Hazel Oak School, Shirley The Heights Academy, Solihull Merstone School, Smith's Wood
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at the possibility of returning to a selective system of schools (made possible because the 1976 Education Act was repealed in 1979), and making the school a grammar school.
He attended Solihull School, [5] an independent school in the West Midlands where he was a member of the Combined Cadet Force and represented the school on the sports field. Buerk's hopes of a career in the Royal Air Force were dashed when he failed an eyesight test at the selection centre. He briefly worked as a hod carrier. [6]