Kings Norton Girls School
Encyclopedia
Kings Norton Girls School is an all girls school for pupils aged 11 to 19. It is located in Selly Oak Road in Kings Norton within the formal district of Northfield
in a suburb of the city of Birmingham
, England. It currently holds the academy status.
for Girls and after an intermediary name change, was renamed Kings Norton Girls School in 1975.
The school operates joint sixth form provision with King's Norton Boy's School
and offers courses in Art & Design - Textiles,
TEC National Certificate in Sport,
B TEC Travel and Tourism,
Biology,
Business Studies,
Chemistry,
D&T Product Design,
Drama & Theatre Studies,
English Language-Literature,
English Literature,
French,
Further Mathematics,
Geography,
German,
Government and Politics,
History,
ICT,
Mathematics,
Media Studies,
Music,
Music Technology,
Photography,
Physical Education,
Physics,
Psychology,
Religious Studies,
Sociology, and
Spanish.
The school is involved in a range of partnerships with other schools and colleges locally and internationally, and was designated a Specialist Language College in 2001, It became a Leading Edge School in 2003, and gained a second specialism in Sport in 2006.
Northfield
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in a suburb of the city of Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
, England. It currently holds the academy status.
History
The school was founded in 1910 as Kings Norton Grammar SchoolGrammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...
for Girls and after an intermediary name change, was renamed Kings Norton Girls School in 1975.
Curriculum
Pupils follow a broad curriculum that includes National Curriculum core subjects, GCSE and A-Level.The school operates joint sixth form provision with King's Norton Boy's School
King's Norton Boy's School
King's Norton Boys' School is a secondary school for around 750 pupils aged 11 to 18 of which approximately 130 attend the 6th form centre. It is located in Northfield Road in Kings Norton within the formal district of Northfield near the centre of the city of Birmingham, England...
and offers courses in Art & Design - Textiles,
TEC National Certificate in Sport,
B TEC Travel and Tourism,
Biology,
Business Studies,
Chemistry,
D&T Product Design,
Drama & Theatre Studies,
English Language-Literature,
English Literature,
French,
Further Mathematics,
Geography,
German,
Government and Politics,
History,
ICT,
Mathematics,
Media Studies,
Music,
Music Technology,
Photography,
Physical Education,
Physics,
Psychology,
Religious Studies,
Sociology, and
Spanish.
The school is involved in a range of partnerships with other schools and colleges locally and internationally, and was designated a Specialist Language College in 2001, It became a Leading Edge School in 2003, and gained a second specialism in Sport in 2006.