Well done year 9 pupils who have worked with Mrs Morris to produce some amazing desk tidies. Pupils have had to show their design and creativity skills, problem solving skills as well as practical woodworking skills to create these fantastic pieces.

One of our Year 13 students, E.Jones, is going to Tanzania for a month over the summer where she will be involved in working on three different community projects.

As part of her fundraising for this expedition, her peers supported her with a charity samosa sale in school.  They raised £62 to add to the pot.  Thank you to everyone who supported this event.

We will be selling more next week!

A selection of students from years 7 and 8 took part in a Talent ID day at West Bromwich Albion’s Academy centre today. The day consisted of a 7aside format tournament against a host of local secondary schools in the region. The aim of the programme is to provide an opportunity for talented footballers to showcase their abilities with the possibility of being scouted and providing a platform for them to progress through into an elite academy performance system. Our students performed magnificently reaching the final of the tournament, beating strong competition along the way only to lose to Sandwell Academy in the final.

We are delighted to announce the launch of our new rewards trip to Drayton Manor on Thursday 12^th June for Years 7-10. This is a fantastic opportunity for pupils to earn their place on the trip by achieving 96%+ attendance and behaviour ratio from between 24^th March- May 23rd

Here are some of the pencil cases designed and made by yr8 rotation 1. They have designed pencil cases using crisp packets as a starting point. They have been taught the hand 'Applique' technique to decorate and add lettering and shapes. Then sewn their pencil cases together using excellent sewing machine skills.

Friday 28^th February - Y11 Geographers visited Hunstanton, Norfolk to conduct their physical fieldwork. It was an early start, but our pupils were excited and ready to go. Pupils visited Hunstanton to evaluate the hard and soft engineering to focus on coastal erosion. We walked along the coastal front, with pupils commenting on geographical features and how the coast is formed due to erosion. 

Pupils conducted a bi-polar analysis on two different types of coastal engineering; a hard engineering sea wall and a manmade rock wall created by a 90-year-old, Michael Kennedy, who visits the cliff every day to add rocks to protect against erosion. Bloxwich Pupils took it upon themselves to add rocks to the wall to help protect against coastal erosion, commenting how important it was to help! We decided to have brisk walk (2-mile walk) to the sand dunes where another example of soft engineering could be seen by the pupil; focusing on environmental friendly ways to protect the coast. 

Of course, no trip to the coast would be complete without fish and chips, or a trip to the arcade before getting back on the bus. 

Our pupils behaved exceptionally well and really made the Academy proud.