Grace Academy, Solihull

Grace Academy
Motto "To develop well mannered, bright students with a sense of values..."
Established 2006
Type Secondary
Religion Christian ethos
Headteacher Mr Darren Gelder
Founder Lord Bob Edmiston
Location Chapelhouse Road, Chelmsley Wood
Solihull
West Midlands
B37 5JS
England
Coordinates: 52°28′28″N 1°45′10″W / 52.4745°N 1.7529°W / 52.4745; -1.7529
DfE URN 129342 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Students 1115
Gender Coeducational
Ages 11–20
Houses Livingstone, Newton, Tyndale, Wilberforce
Colours Purple and gold (specifically against other academies, blue is used)
Website graceacademy.org.uk

Grace Academy is a non-selective co-educational secondary school within the English Academy programme, at Chelmsley Wood, Solihull, West Midlands.

It opened in 2006 and replaced the old Whitesmore School. It is a specialist Business and Enterprise college.

Grace Academy Solihull is constituted as a company and registered charity under English law.[1]

In 2009 the school achieved average results for Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 4 but only 28% achieved 5 or more GCSEs grade C or above compared to a national average of 47.6%.[2]

Controversy

On 20 August 2013 the school was among those named by The Independent newspaper and the British Humanist Association as adopting a policy similar in wording to the repealed anti-gay legislation Section 28.[3]

Grace Foundation

The school is sponsored by Grace Foundation,[4] a charity whose objects are "to advance for the public benefit education in the United Kingdom by promoting the establishment, maintenance, carrying on, management and development of schools with a Christian ethos and in accordance with Christian principles". Grace Foundation is endowed by Bob Edmiston, entrepreneur and founder of the evangelical international charity Christian Vision, who is a Governor of Grace Academy.


See also

References

  1. ↑ Charity Commission. Grace Academy, registered charity no. 1103029.
  2. ↑ "Grace Academy Solihull". BBC news. 15 January 2009. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  3. ↑ Nigel Morris (20 August 2013). "The return of Section 28: Schools and academies practising homophobic policy that was outlawed under Tony Blair". The Independent. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  4. ↑ Charity Commission. Grace Foundation, registered charity no. 1103021.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/3/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.