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PJ Ellis - BBC Radio WM and Shyamantha Asokan - BBC News, West Midlands January 13, 2025 at 10:20 AM Solihull School pupils Ethan, Charlie, Lauren, Claudie and Isabella (pictured left to right ...
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.
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. The school has over 1,170 students, [2] from ages eleven to sixteen.
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
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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at the possibility of returning to a selective system of schools (made possible because the 1976 Education Act was repealed in 1979), and making the school a grammar school.