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Wednesday 5 November 2025 David Lloyd Clubs comes to Solihull Academy for our very own DIY SOS-Style Makeover
Monday 23 June 2025 SAPMAT Students Shine at National Football Finals at St George’s Park
Monday 23 June 2025 National Sports Week Goes Splash-Tastic at Spot On Wake!
Wednesday 4 June 2025 Working Together to Support Attendance: Upcoming Parent/Carer Sessions at Solihull Academy At Solihull Academy, we recognise that regular attendance and punctuality are crucial for our students' academic success and personal development. We are committed to fostering a sense of belonging and connectedness, ensuring every student feels supported and valued. To strengthen our partnership with parents and carers, we are hosting dedicated Attendance Support Sessions this June.
Thursday 10 April 2025 Eggstraordinary Kindness: JLR Delivers Sweet Surprise to Solihull Academy Students
Wednesday 27 November 2024 A New Dawn for Solihull Young Learners
Wednesday 5 July 2023 Solihull Academy's Magnificent Season Ends in Defeat at St George's Park Despite a hat trick from one of our students,Solihull Academy football team lose to the Oasis centre on a beautiful morning at St George’s Park. A young and enthusiastic team travelled to St George’s park, home of England Football with high spirits to participate in the SEN Midlands League 2022/23 final. This is the first final Solihull Academy have participated in, having lost in closely in semi-finals in previous seasons.
Friday 16 June 2023 Dallagio Rugby Works Champion Award A huge congratulations to one of our students who has been nominated and shortlisted for the Dallaglio RugbyWorks Champion Award. This award recognises the achievements of the RugbyWorks participants who have made significant improvements in one of the four cornerstones of delivery (Developing Life Skills, Raising aspirations and Improving Physical and mental wellbeing) during their time on the programme. We at SA are really proud of what Tyler has achieved and Mrs Jessett and Miss Hossack look forward to celebrating with him on Tuesday 20th June in London where the ceremony is being held.
Friday 19 May 2023 STEM Pathfinder As the sun shines brighter and the heat gets warmer, Pathfinder students are taking their STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) learning outdoors! Our bespoke and inclusive curriculum at Solihull Academy is designed to reengage 11-13-year-olds in their learning environment with a blend of academic and therapeutic intervention. Come and join the #TeamSA journey, and see how we are helping young minds grow and become more aspirational!
Wednesday 8 February 2023 What impact do you have on the world around you? What impact do you have on the world around you
Wednesday 8 February 2023 E-Scooters and the law parent information
Friday 27 January 2023 A visit from Hoodrich UK founder The founder of Hoodrich UK visited the Academy on Tuesday to deliver workshops to our pupils. Jay’s inspirational talk entitled “from Nothing to Something” focuses on how the values of hard work, dedication and ambition can really pay off. Jay is a walking example of this!
Thursday 26 January 2023 Letter to parents regarding February 1st Strike Action February 1st strike action information
Monday 5 December 2022 Winter Newsletter
Thursday 17 November 2022 Morrisons donate food to Saturn Centre A lovely picture of staff at Saturn Centre receiving a very generous donation from Morrisons. This enables us to make our student food parcels to take home. Without their donations we could do it... a huge, big thanks Morrisons
Wednesday 9 November 2022 Touchwood help out Thank you so much to Tony Elvin and Touchwood shopping centre for donating shopping vouchers for SOLIHULL ACADEMY to be able to use for rewards for the children attending here this is going to make such a huge difference. Touchwood kindly donated £100.
Thursday 20 October 2022 Maths that Tastes Good Maths that Tastes Good Students at Solihull Academy have been developing their maths skills by baking. This 'hands-on' approach to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) helps students see the real-world application of the knowledge and skills they are building.
Thursday 20 October 2022 Solihull Police Family Fun/Crime Prevention Day 5/11/22 We wanted to make staff, children, parents/guardians and extended families aware of a free event.
Tuesday 18 October 2022 Gone Fishin!! The Academy SENCO lead took one of our students fishing as he had been asking to go since he joined us from Saturn Centre. They both had a fantastic day and caught 40 Carp between them. The student wrote a lovely English piece about their day together; he also thanked the SENCO lead for taking him to Alvechurch. A therapeutic day had by both! #Fishing #Theraputic #SENCO #Teamsa
Tuesday 18 October 2022 Erupting Volcanos Our fantastic Mercury students have been building and painting their volcanoes over the last couple of weeks which erupted last week in Science.
Monday 10 October 2022 Celebrations at Solihull Academy.... we are pleased to announce........... We have now received the final copy of our Ofsted report following the inspection that took place in September 2022. We are delighted to share with you our first ever Ofsted report we were rated ‘Good’ in overall effectiveness.
Wednesday 13 July 2022 Snapchat Online Safety "Snapchat has recently added a 'Meet Up' feature. If your child is sharing their location, other users would be able to get directions to where your child is. Encourage them to turn their location sharing off, and onlybe 'friends' on the app with people they know and trust offline. See our factsheet for more information on how to keep your child safe on Snapchat."
Tuesday 5 July 2022 Come and have your say Are you aged 13- 29 Do you have s special educational need or disability (SEND) Do you have any type of Additional Need or Disability What are your experiences of support for this in Birmingham What support hasn’t worked well for you What else could have helped Join the Youth Participation Event.....HAVE YOUR SAY!
Tuesday 5 July 2022 Bring it on Brum Looking for something to do with your children over the Summer holidays for free Bring it on Brum is running FREE activity clubs in Birmingham for children aged 4-16 who are eligible for benefits-related free school meals @bringitonbrum
Friday 24 June 2022 Blists Hill Victorian Town Visit
Wednesday 22 June 2022 SMILE Education - SEN Football Tournament Winners SMILE Education – SEN Football Tournament Winners, Solihull Academy
Monday 6 June 2022 SA Football News Congratulations to the SA football team who secured a vital 3 points in the SEN Midland Football league with a 1 - 12 victory over Brades Lodge School. The respect, readiness to win and restorative nature of our students was OUTSTANDING!
Tuesday 24 May 2022 Catering Students New Uniform It was lovely to see our Enrichment students wearing their new Uniform, each student has to pass the following certificates before starting in the Kitchen: Manual handling, Health & Safety, Food Hygiene & Allergens. Its great to see them all engaging with Matt the kitchen manager and they really love making new dishes. In the future Solihull Academy hope to start a catering qualification but for the moment this gives them a great start towards future progression.
Monday 16 May 2022 Year 11 makeshift beauty salon We had an amazing day in our makeshift salon with our superstar Year 11’s last week. Thank you to all our fabulous clients that visited us, especially Marc & Curtis from noweducation they were here to see Mr Steinhaus but afterwards ended up having a nail manicure & polish! #solihullacademy #beautyschool #hairandbeauty #inhouselearning #schoollife #bestbeautyschool #teamsa #noweducation
Thursday 5 May 2022 SA staff Shortlisted for the TES Awards We are so proud of Miss Beckford and Mrs. Sims for the nominations and being shortlisted for the TES Awards...they are a wonderful way to acknowledge the hard work that school staff do on a daily basis. We and our pupils are so lucky and thankful to have them both as part of TeamSA.

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