The PE team successfully ran a trip to Old Trafford last night to watch Man Utd vs Hull in the EFL Cup semi-final first leg with 15 Year 9 GCSE students. The students were exceptionally behaved throughout the trip and credit to the Academy. A wonderful experience for the students.

Girls from across the Academy took part in the Womens FA football week event. Here posing with the FA cup.

Students from our Academy are part of the Football for Peace initiative, here pictured with the Indonesian president.

Year 7 spent an afternoon in the company of Mel Clarke, 2 time paralympian and an expert with the bow and arrow! As part of Sky Sports Living for Sport, students were engaged in various sports and being inspired by Mel.

On Sunday 29th May, student Ben Smith, a member of the KESH Academy rugby team attended the Old Mutual Wealth Cup International Rugby match between England and Wales. He was escorted by the CBRE and England Rugby Ambassador, current England player Jonny May onto the Twickenham Pitch. Here he stood pitch side whilst the two competing teams entered the stadium and sang their National Anthems.

Read more: ‘All Schools’ Rugby Graduation

The annual Christmas Music concert was held at the Academy on 17th December. The performances were wonderful and a big thanks to all the students who helped out with setting up, not forgetting Miss Bywater, Mr Dunphy and Mr Organ.

An evening of amazing performances by students, they really did themselves proud!

On Monday 11th October a small group of dedicated and talented Y8 and Y9 students performed a 30 minute version of THE TEMPEST at the Old Rep Theatre in Birmingham City Centre as part of the Shakespeare Schools Festival. Superbly cast, organised and directed by Mrs Jessett, the group were a real credit to our Academy and received very positive praise from the festival organisers and audience.

It was a great production, with so much attention to detail, teamwork and raw talent. The use of make-up and costumes helped place the characters in the right worlds and make the story clear and accessible to the audience.

Staff and students have been getting used to new surroundings in 2013 - a brand new building! We are very proud to be in our new building which we hope will last us as long if not longer than the last building. Amazing facilities throughout the school will make this a great place to learn for students.

Congratulations and well done to the GCSE PE boys softball team, who won the Calthorpe and Ninestiles Schools Partnership Tournament, held at Small Heath.