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.. 

The day provided plenty of smiles, laughter, determination and most importantly togetherness!

House position

• 4th Walters
• 3rd Parkes 🥉
• 2nd Lloyd 🥈
• 1st Tolkien 🥇​​​​​​​

Read more: Sports Day 2022

On Monday 30th June, a group of KESH Year 12 students took part in a Politics day at King Edward’s School on Edgbaston Park Road as part of the MAT. The student’s collectively put together a robust manifesto and delivered it to a high profile audience against 11 other King Edward’s Schools. They did us proud against the other students, many who had a detailed knowledge through their study of A level Politics. KESH Sixth form had an excellent, well planned and delivered manifesto. The Mock Prime Minister Diyana and Armaan were particularly excellent due to their strong execution, leading us to be joint 5th place with King Edward’s Girls.

All students agreed they had an amazing day and fully enjoyed listening to Jess Philips our local MP and Andy Street, the Mayor of the West Midlands, answering some very difficult questions! Other notable guests included Nisha Pillai (BBC World News), Tandayi Bloom (Lecturer in Politics and International Studies, University of Birmingham), and Mark Webber (Professor of International Politics, University of Birmingham).

Since September 2021,12 students have been involved in a project run by the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire of Music, called SoundLab Brum, which involved rehearsals at the Academy and at Symphony Hall every two weeks working with professional musicians and other students from schools across the city, creating their own compositions and covers of songs.

On Wednesday 29th June 2022, we took 9 students to the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire of Music to perform in The Bradshaw Hall in concert which was the final showcase event for the SoundLab Brum project. All the students did a fantastic job and thoroughly enjoyed participating in the concert and the project, making new musical friends across the city. Noah had the honour of being an ambassador for the project speaking to the various dignitaries and funding partners that were in attendance.

We had the pleasure of welcoming author Cat Weatherill to our Academy on Thursday 30 June 2022.

Cat delivered a storytelling session for all Year 7s students in an extended assembly and the workshops all ran smoothly. The students performed wonderfully with their metaphor writing. ​​​​​​​The workshops covered three themes; an introduction to autobiographical storytelling, cinematic writing and abstract writing.

Participation will have a positive impact on students’ confidence with reading and English skills. Special thanks to our staff for making it a great day too.