Fantastic news at the start of 2023. Ex KESH student Layla Banaras has started for the first team at Birmingham City Football Club Womens team. We hope you do really well Layla, we know the hard work you have put in. 

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11694/12756203/birmingham-citys-layla-banaras-16-becomes-first-south-asian-heritage-woman-to-represent-blues-in-professional-era

On Thursday 15th December KESH Academy held a Culture Day, to celebrate the diversity within the school. There was a range of activities, dance workshops, music, food, storytelling and competitions, with themes from all over the world. Please click the link below for student feedback.

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The Reverend Susan Larkin and volunteer Debbie Green visited us today to collect our donations for the St. Thomas Church Garrets Green Food Bank initiative. Student Council representatives met with Susan and Debbie to hand over the significant donations collected throughout the school. Many thanks to our students, families and staff that helped to support the appeal so generously, especially during these difficult times. The support for our local community has been amazing. We are so proud of you all! Thank you.

Last Thursday saw the return of indoor Cricket, our year 9’s had one training session to prepare for an important game against Small Heath.

KESH won the toss and elected to bowl first. As Small Heath opened the batting, they were hitting the ball beautifully. They were timing their shots perfectly and managed to create a good score of 92. Our bowlers bowled brilliantly to try creating opportunities for wickets and managed to successfully bowl everyone out within 8 overs.

Read more: Year 9 boys beat Small Heath by 1 run!

We took 14 lucky students to Twickenham Stadium to watch England take on Japan in the Autumn Nations Series.

If you watched the game you’ll know that England put on a show with 7 tries in a thrilling game winning 52-13! It was the first time going to Twickenham for all students and they had an amazing time with memories that I’m sure will last a long time. The students behaved impeccably and were a pleasure to spend the day with. After the game, the players came out with their little ones and threw out a load of mini rugby balls - two of which were caught by William and Seb and signed by the one and only MANU TUILAGI!!!!

The year 7’s travelled to Arch Bishopy Ilsley to compete in a 5- a side football tournament which involved 8 schools.

KESH girls played their first match and lost 1-0 in the first minute, however they kept their heads high with some great goalkeeping from Myla and fantastic defending from Rahma to avoid a 2nd goal for the opponents.

Read more: Year 7 girls lose 1-0 in final

The year 7 boys had their first game yesterday afterschool against Cockshut Hill which they won quite comfortably in the end 3-1 with goals coming from Abdul x2 and Drew. Massively proud of them for how they played the game and how they represented the school fully supporting each other and shaking hands with all the opposition. Onto the next round of the cup!

Read more: Year 7 boys beat Cockshut Hill 4-1

Yesterday afternoon we took the Year 9 rugby team over to KES Birmingham for their annual Greater Birmingham rugby competition. We started off by playing against the eventual winners KES Birmingham losing only 2 tries to 0, not a bad start considering it was our first ever full 15-a-side rugby game!

Game 2, wow, what a start…

Read more: Year 9 Rugby - Greater Birmingham competition

This week has been a great week for our Year 9’s. The girls won the Birmingham schools cup on Monday and the boys won yesterday. Yesterday's win felt extra special as we came 2nd place last year, so the boys were ready for redemption.

First game we started positively and won 2-0 against Tile Cross. Shamas scored the first goal with a beautiful finish with his weak foot into the bottom corner. Mustafa also got involved as he created a great run into the box and finished it calmly past the keeper.

Read more: Year 9 are cup champions!

The Academy are pleased to announce that construction works have commenced to create a 3G artificial grass pitch and improved grass pitches on the Academy site. This development will provide our students with state of the art facilities for PE lesson and extra-curricular activities. The Academy also plans to continue to build on its great relationships with local community groups to allow use of these facilities on evenings and weekends. For any enquiries please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..