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Aston Manor Academy (formerly Aston Manor School) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in the Aston area of Birmingham, England.. Due in part to the fact that it is situated in Aston, it has children from a wide variety of ethnic groups.
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It is a female-only school for ages 11–18, with a mixed 6th form. It is situated close to the A4040 (Lordswood Road), just south of the A456 (Hagley Road) junction. Next door, to the north, is the Lordswood Boys' School. The school has a mixed sixth form provision along with Lordswood Boys' School.
In 1997 a new Sixth Form block was built with the help of the King Edward VI Foundation fund. [9] In 2005, the new sports hall was built, using sponsorship money from companies such as O2, [ citation needed ] and a church organ was bought by the school to be renovated and used for music studies.
The school operates both a lower school and 6th form provision. The 6th form operates separately as a co-ed and allows boys to attend Kings Norton Girls' School at A level. Pupils follow a broad curriculum that includes National Curriculum core subjects, GCSE and A-Level. The school offers courses in:
At each MPW college in 2020 the most commonly achieved (modal) A level grade was A/A* [8] and over 50% of examination entries were at this level.. The colleges are also very successful in terms of value-add, which measures the distance travelled by students at A level relative to where they were at GCSE, and in their improvement of retake student grades, as reported by the Times [9] and Sunday ...
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Holyhead School offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels and further BTECs. [4] In January 2017, long standing principal Martin Bayliss and colleague Amanda Cottam retired after 17 and 38 years teaching at the school respectively.