Trinity High School and Sixth Form Centre
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Trinity High School and Sixth Form Centre is a 13-18 co-educational comprehensive school located in central Redditch
Redditch
Redditch is a town and local government district in north-east Worcestershire, England, approximately south of Birmingham. The district had a population of 79,216 in 2005. In the 19th century it became the international centre for the needle and fishing tackle industry...

, Worcestershire
Worcestershire
Worcestershire is a non-metropolitan county, established in antiquity, located in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire" NUTS 2 region...

, England
England
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.

Admissions

The school is located within a few minutes of the Kingfisher Shopping Centre and the area of central Redditch, just north of the roundabout of the A4023 and B4160. The School is on Easemore Road.

About 25% of the students are from minority ethnic backgrounds. The majority of these are of Pakistani origin, with many speaking English as an additional language. A 2010 Ofsted report accorded the school a Grade 2 (Good).

History

It opened in 2001 on the site of the Abbey High School (formerly the Redditch County High School). It started life as the Redditch County High School, a grammar school
Grammar 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...

 with around 1000 boys and girls, with 200 in the sixth form. The main school buildings had opened in 1932. It became a comprehensive in 1974. In 2004, Trinity became a Business and Enterprise specialist school.

Feeder schools

Trinity High School draws the majority of its intake in from its two feeder school
Feeder school
Feeder school is a name applied to schools, colleges, universities, or other educational institutions that provide a significant number of graduates who intend to continue their studies at specific schools, or even in specific fields....

s, Birchensale Middle School and Woodfield Middle School. Pupils have also come from:
  • Walkwood Middle School
  • Alvechurch Middle School
  • Ipsley Middle School
  • Ridgeway Middle School
    Ridgeway Middle School
    Ridgeway Middle School is a middle school in Redditch, Worcestershire, England. There are currently 470 pupils on roll, in the age range 9-13.A March 2007 Ofsted inspection accorded the school a Grade 3 .-References:...


House system

At the start of the 2008/09 school year the House system
House system
The house system is a traditional feature of British schools, and schools in the Commonwealth. Historically, it was associated with established public schools, where a 'house' refers to a boarding house or dormitory of a boarding school...

 was reintroduced. The new houses were selected by pupils and voted on by student councillors and are as follows:
  • Malvern
    Malvern Hills
    The Malvern Hills are a range of hills in the English counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a small area of northern Gloucestershire, dominating the surrounding countryside and the towns and villages of the district of Malvern...

     (Green)
  • Bredon
    Bredon Hill
    Bredon Hill is a hill in Worcestershire, England, south-west of Evesham in the Vale of Evesham. The summit of the hill is in the parish of Kemerton and it extends over parts of eight other parishes...

     (Blue)
  • Kinver
    Kinver Edge
    Kinver Edge is a high heath and woodland escarpment just west of Kinver, about four miles west of Stourbridge, and four miles north of Kidderminster, and is on the border between Worcestershire and Staffordshire, England. It is now owned by the National Trust....

     (Yellow)


Each form group is of the same house and at the end of the year the house with the most points wins the annual House Cup.

Abbey High School

  • John Taylor, bassist in the group Duran Duran
    Duran Duran
    Duran Duran are an English band, formed in Birmingham in 1978. They were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States...

    .

Redditch County High School

  • Bryan Davies, Baron Davies of Oldham
    Bryan Davies, Baron Davies of Oldham
    Bryan Davies, Baron Davies of Oldham, PC, is a Labour member of the House of Lords. He served as Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords from 2003 to 2010, and as usual for a holder of that position, also held the position of Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard.He was educated at...

    , Labour MP for Enfield North from 1974-9 and Oldham Central and Royton
    Oldham Central and Royton (UK Parliament constituency)
    Oldham Central and Royton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Oldham and Royton areas in the north-west of Greater Manchester, England...

     from 1992-7
  • Norman Neasom
    Norman Neasom
    Norman Neasom , was an English painter. He grew up on Birchensale Farm in Brockhill Lane on the outskirts of Redditch, Worcestershire...

    , painter
  • Steve Robinson, Chief Executive since 2009 of Cheshire West and Chester
    Cheshire West and Chester
    Cheshire West and Chester is a unitary authority area with borough status, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire. It was established in April 2009 as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England, by virtue of an order under the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health...

    Council, and of Stoke on Trent City Council from 2006-8

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