Category: News
GCSE students gain excellent results
Our Year 11 students gained some excellent GCSE results with another 100% pass rate and 92% of the candidates gaining A* to C grades (or equivalent) in English and Maths. Congratulations to Lawrie Cox with 9 A*/A grades and Remahn Beckford-Gardner and Urooj Ayyub both with 8 A*/A grades. Other excellent results included those by…
A Level Results
Highclare students are celebrating their excellent results and personal achievements having received their examination results . The overall pass rate achieved was 94% with nearly half of all passes at A*, A and B, not including General Studies. A further cause for celebration came as they confirmed their entries to a variety of universities and…
Highclare launches new Sports Field
Highclare School chose a lovely July afternoon to celebrate the acquisition of it fourth site, Highclare Sports Field. With the support of local guests, Councillors and the Mayor of Sutton Coldfield, Cllr David Pears, pupils engaged in an exciting inter-house competition in rounders, soft ball and Kwik Cricket. Other sports personalities supporting the afternoon…
Congratulations to all our Junior pupils
The annual Prize Giving for Highclare Junior Schools took place at Sutton Coldfield Town Hall, with many guests, parents and friends. Pupils from throughout the Highclare Junior Schools, J3 to J6 performed some of their best musical and drama pieces for guest of honour, Mr Neil Roskilly, Chief Executive Officer of the Independent Schools Association. …
Headmaster’s Golf Challenge
This event is now in its second year and parents, friends and staff of Highclare School enjoyed a sociable and competitive evening of Golf, at Walmley Golf Club in June. Playing in teams, the competitors enjoyed the course which, although centrally located in Sutton Coldfield hides some beautiful wild life environments and is currently in…
An Outdoor Experience for J4
J4 pupils from Highclare Junior Schools had a wonderful trip to Weston Park, nr Weston under Lizard in Shropshire recently to enjoy the park and woodland. They spent the day investigating and exploring the extensive woodland areas in the park, where they were introduced to the many different types of trees and their characteristics. The children created…
A Day of Discovery
Birmingham University’s School of Engineering and Physical Sciences was the venue for a day of discovery this week for L5 pupils from Highclare Senior School, in Erdington, Birmingham. During a series of workshops on robotics, medical engineering, mathematics and particle physics pupils were able to participate and learn. They all had a great day…
J6 Enterprise Extravaganza
The children in J6 at Highclare Junior Schools in Sutton Coldfield have shown themselves to be entrepreneurs of the future, and raised a fantastic sum of over £1,800 for their school charity, African Space Trust. The events held over the last week have proved to be very popular with staff and parents and were greatly…
Mathematical Challenge success for Highclare Senior School pupils
Congratulations to the gifted mathematicians at Highclare School who were entered in the Junior Mathematical Challenge recently. This is a nationally recognised challenge and only the top 40% of students receive a certificate. The top 6% receive gold, the next 13% silver and the next 21% bronze. A gold certificate was awarded to Warren Koh,…
A great experience for J4
Our J4 pupils from Highclare Junior School attended a wonderful ‘Experience Day’ on Monday 12th June at Highclare Senior School. The day was organised as part of the awareness programme offered to Highclare Junior pupils in plenty of time prior to their move to Senior Schools. Staff and pupils aimed to give them every…
