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• 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.
• Monday 4 April 2022 Dallaglio Rugby Works
• Monday 4 April 2022 Covid 19 update letter April 2022 Dear Parents/Carers
• Monday 28 March 2022 Educational Trip to the National Space Centre The whole of year 10 and our year 11 BTEC Science students took part in an enrichment day at The National Space Centre in Leicester.
• Wednesday 9 March 2022 Letter to parents from the Minister of State for Further and Higher Education To coincide with National Careers Week 2022, Michelle Donelan, Minister of State for Further and Higher Education, is writing to students and parents about the education, training and work choices available to young people after they finish their GCSEs and once they turn 18.
• Monday 28 February 2022 A huge congratulations to two of our students who, working with Frame Academy, have been able to complete a nationally recognised qualification. A huge congratulations to two of our students who, working with Frame Academy, have been able to complete a nationally recognised qualification.MIAS (Mountain-bike Instructors’ Award Scheme) Level 1 - Bike Maintenance
• Monday 24 January 2022 Solihull Academy Basketball Last week we took nine of our KS4 students to North Solihull Sports Centre to practice and play basketball for the first time. They spent 90 minutes working on basic skills such as passing and shooting, finishing with a match where the students worked as part of a team to demonstrate the skills they had learnt. The students displayed great energy and enthusiasm during the basketball enrichment session and we look forward to the next one where we will be focusing on dribbling and defence, ahead of a friendly match we hope to play against another school in the near future. We are delighted to be expanding our sports offer for our students and we hope that over time, many more students will have the opportunity to engage with and develop lifelong skills and a passion for basketball.

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