The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
Birmingham City Council sent out an advisory for parents to check ahead before sending out their children to school on Monday as heatwave temperatures continue to soar. Parents have been urged to check with school websites in the morning in case of any school closures in place due to record-breaking temperatures.
A music empowerment programme currently in over 1,000 primary schools in the UK, teaching tens of thousands of children music, is heading to Birmingham next month. Rocksteady Music School is the world’s largest peripatetic teaching rock school and is arriving in the city’s schools this April to teach music in a band setting to primary school…
Fears are growing tonight as police launch an urgent appeal to trace a missing schoolgirl who was last seen in the Handsworth area of Birmingham on Saturday (1 May). Thi Khanh Ly Duong, aged 17, was reported missing by staff at her private boarding school in Staffordshire.
A video has been released for Learning Disability Week featuring young school children from across Birmingham sign performing a poem written by a dyslexic poet from the city. Joe Cook, 28, is a dyslexic poet, performer and musician who works in a primary school teaching poetry and rhyme Year 4 to Year 6 pupils. To mark Disability…
Tudor Grange Academy Kingshurst in Birmingham has sent home all pupils and a deep clean of the school is currently in effect after several pupils returned with flu-like symptoms from a trip to Italy where coronavirus is on the rise. All pupils at the Tudor Grange Academy Kingshurst in Cooks Lane, Birmingham, were ordered to…
Students all over the UK skipped school today to protest against the last of social awareness surrounding climate change. A rally in Birmingham attracted hundreds of pupils as schools up and down the country were missing young people, who decided to attend Youth Climate Change marches instead.
Over fifty schools in Birmingham took to dancing ‘the floss‘ and sharing it on social media this week, in a bid to raise awareness of government cuts to education. ‘Floss4Funding’ is a national campaign with the parent-led campaign group Save Our Schools at the forefront.
Young children at a school in Birmingham have been sharing their love of books today by dressing up as their favourite fictional characters. Celebrating World Book Day with hundreds of other schools across the country, pupils at The Wisdom Academy donned outfits paying tribute to storybook and comic characters; from pirates, wizards and superheroes to princesses, queens and…
Renowned scientist and Britain’s leading fertility expert Professor Lord Robert Winston visited King Edward’s School in Birmingham last week to talk to an audience of over 400 pupils about the importance of being scientifically literate. The talk, which took place on Thursday 2nd March in the Ruddock Hall of the school’s Performing Arts Centre, was the…