Recent & upcoming events
Parents Evening for Year 7
Tuesday 2nd February 2010, 6.00 - 8.00pm
Help the school collect Nestle "Box Tops for Books" tokens:
It's as easy as......
1.Look out for the tokens.2 Cut
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Teacher of the year
Mr Lewis is a West Midlands finalist in the National Teaching Awards 2009. A distinction has been awarded to Mr Lewis for his work in Enterprise at Harborne Hill School. Enterprising challenges such as Business Enterprise week and the Cadbury Challenge and other projects working with business partners such as University Hospital Birmingham, Cadburys, Atkins has helped Mr Lewis gain this award. This has helped lift the profile of the School in the community and this work in enterprise and risk taking helps students at Harborne Hill School become confident, independent learners.
The Key Stage 3 Book Award is a yearly reading challenge run by Birmingham LA. Schools all over Birmingham and some outside Birmingham take part. Harborne Hill School take part each year.This year it is Ms Joadels Year 9 English group who were chosen to take part. This year the theme is "ESCAPES".There are fourteen books for the group to read, they then vote on line for the book they like the most.
"Harborne Hill has been chosen to champion 'The Stuff of Nightmares'by Malorie Blackman. This is Harborne Hill's presentation. We hope it makes you want to read the book!" J Smith
Modern languages school trip
Year 7 and 8 students recently visited the Lingua Centre at Hillcrest School. The Lingua centre is set up as a European village and students had to show passports they had created in order to go through make believe customs. This was a great opportunity for them to practise speaking Spanish alongside teachers at the school through a carousel of activities. They also had the opportunity to change pounds into euros and spend them in the clothes shop, bakery, café, tourist office and pharmacy!
Harborne Hill School was awarded Sportmark in February 2009 For ensuring at least 90% of its students across the school were doing 2 hours of high quality PE and sport each week. We at Harborne Hill pride ourselves on providing opportunities for our youngsters to engage in activities accross the PE curriculum so everyone has the opportunity to achieve. The award lasts for 12 months and we hope to maintain the standards required in the coming year to keep hold of the status achieved.
Back to Back
Year eight students worked with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre to write a script that was then performed and filmed at the National Trust property, Back to Backs
The students were inspired by the property and used the lives and stories from people who lived and worked there as a stimulus to create a script, which they later performed. The play is about a family living in pre-war, back-to-back housing and tells many stories about historic Birmingham.
The students visited Back to Backs and researched stories from people who lived and worked at the property. The students worked with members of staff from the National Trust, met George Saunders who owned the Tailor Shop in the 1930's, and worked with a local community group to retrace and share their family history.
Year eight students worked alongside professionals at Trilby Multimedia to produce the film. Marcel Ebanks, hopes to have a career in the film industry and has been working with Trilby multimedia to develop his film making skills.The students worked at the theatre, directing their script with professional actors. The piece was then performed as part of the Transmissions Festival at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.Quote: "It is rewarding when students who don't normally want to write, pick up a pen and begin to put their ideas on paper."
The school is celebrating the fifth successive year of improvements in student achievement at Key Stage Four. An incredible 85% of students successfully gained 5A* - Cs (up from 68% in 2008). This was also reflected in the improvement in the number of students gaining 5 A*- Cs (including English and Maths), rising to 35%.
The impressive
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At Harborne Hill School we strongly believe that the Arts offer a unique dimension in the experience of everyone. The Arts are an important element in an all round education and the disciplines are relevant to life in general.
This commitment to the arts has recently been recognised with the achievement of the Artsmark Silver Award. This award recognises the wide variety of Drama, Music, Visual Arts and Dance opportunities that the school provides.
The teaching and learning in these four subjects is strengthened and supported by creative work and approaches across the school and extended curriculum.
Harborne Hill School ensures that staff also have arts experiences and training to enrich their practice and support creativity.
Harborne Carnival
An outstanding carnival for all. Harborne celebrated its tenth carnival bringing business and residents together for a charity funding day. With stalls, jamborees and a brass band, Harborne was certainly the place to be. Over £200,000 has been raised for charities since the carnival was introduced. Harborne Hill School was very proud to participate with their own stall.
