Waseley Hills High School and Sixth Form Centre
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Waseley Hills High School and Sixth Form Centre is a mixed secondary and further education school in the town of Rubery
. on the border of the county of Worcestershire
and the city of Birmingham
, England, at the base of the Waseley Hills Country Park
.
The school with its dedicated Sixth Form centre has about 1,000 students on roll and has specialist status as a Business and Enterprise College
. The school also has specialist hearing impaired provision, and a specialist able autism base. It has gained a number of awards, including the Artsmark award in the academic term 2005/2006, and the Investor in People award.
A 2010 Ofsted report accorded the school a Grade 3 (satisfactory).
The school's catchment area includes the surrounding primary schools of Lickey Hills Primary, Holywell Primary, and Beaconside Primary and Nursery.
Since September 2005 the school has a system of four houses which students belong to in a vertical form system:
Rubery
Rubery is a village in the Bromsgrove district of Worcestershire. Part of the village forms a southern suburb of Birmingham, England in the West Midlands. The village is from Birmingham city centre....
. on the border of the county of 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...
and 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, at the base of the Waseley Hills Country Park
Waseley Hills Country Park
Waseley Hills Country Park is a Country Park, owned and managed by Worcestershire County Council's Countryside Service. It consists of rolling open hills with old hedgerows, pastures and small pockets of woodland with panoramic views over Worcestershire, England.It is just south-west of...
.
The school with its dedicated Sixth Form centre has about 1,000 students on roll and has specialist status as a Business and Enterprise College
Business and Enterprise College
Business and Enterprise Colleges were introduced in 2002 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields...
. The school also has specialist hearing impaired provision, and a specialist able autism base. It has gained a number of awards, including the Artsmark award in the academic term 2005/2006, and the Investor in People award.
A 2010 Ofsted report accorded the school a Grade 3 (satisfactory).
The school's catchment area includes the surrounding primary schools of Lickey Hills Primary, Holywell Primary, and Beaconside Primary and Nursery.
Since September 2005 the school has a system of four houses which students belong to in a vertical form system:
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