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Headteacher's Welcome

I am delighted to welcome you to Washwood Heath Academy - a thriving All-through school in the heart of the local community. Washwood Heath Academy offers a rich, stimulating and rewarding learning environment for students aged 4 - 18.

Lynn PetrieWashwood Heath Academy is an oversubscribed All-through school educating children from EYFS to Sixth Form. Our new purpose built primary school facility was opened in March 2019 and provides a fantastic teaching and learning environment for our younger pupils.  Visitors to the school are always impressed by the high standards in lessons and around the Academy and how welcoming and polite our young people are.

We expect students to achieve the very best they can within a friendly and welcoming setting, underpinned by our HEARTS ethos and family atmosphere. 

Academy ethos

Washwood Heath inspires its students to strive for and reach their full potential, no matter what their abilities or talents.

Slt 9688 1I believe that every one of our students has potential to go on and become outstanding members of society and our caring and supportive school environment is the perfect place for them to grow in confidence.  We strive to provide the best for every child by understanding, respecting and providing for each and every young person in our care. Our excellent relationships with parents and carers promote a shared understanding and belief in the school’s values and aims, working in partnership for their child’s education.
 

Washwood Heath offers an ambitious, broad and balanced curriculum for EYFS and Key Stages 1, 2 and 3, which aims to enrich and challenge all learners, enabling academic, moral, spiritual, social and cultural needs to be met. At key stage 4 (Years 9 to 11), the school offers an academic GCSE English Baccalaureate core for an increasing number of students and a broad choice of option subjects. We encourage our learners to continue their education beyond Year 11 and we offer a high quality and personalised curriculum in our Sixth Form.

Eimg 0046Students will often hear me and other staff talk about what makes us who we are at Washwood Heath. We believe that all students should be kind, tolerant, respectful and aim for excellence in all that they do. This, for me, characterises The Washwood Way.

The education we provide will be in line with these values and will develop your child’s knowledge, understanding and skills such that they can become highly qualified, responsible citizens able to participate fully in all parts of community life.

We have excellent teachers who stop at nothing to ensure their students achieve the success that they deserve, through hard work, self-belief and fun.  Our extra-curricular opportunities provide something for everyone including a wide range of in-school workshops, theatre productions and sporting opportunities. Through our Washwood Heath Passport, our young people are offered a wide range of trips and visits including castles, parks, farms, cities and places of cultural and historical interest. In addition, we are increasing the number of weekend and weekday residentials for our students.

SLT 2061Your child’s education is of utmost importance to me. Everything that we do is geared towards providing the very best for the students that we serve. We will give you lots of information to help you appreciate more about your child’s progress and their courses of study. A partnership between us based on excellent communication and collaboration is the foundation of a child’s future success.

In short, Washwood Heath Academy is a place where all children, from all backgrounds and abilities can be safe, happy and inspired to achieve.

I hope you enjoy having a look around the website to find out more about the school.  If you would prefer to come and see our superb learning environment in person, please contact us and we can arrange for you to have a tour.

Mrs Lynn Petrie

Headteacher

Twitter

@washwoodheath - 20 Dec
We had a special visit from Father Christmas 🙂 what a lovely way to end the term for Christmas. Thank you Washwood for the reading books as our gift. pic.twitter.com/BATOQGmjrH— Washwood Heath Academy: All Through School () December 20, 2024
@washwoodheath - 18 Dec
Y4 went on their local field walk this morning looking at local transport links and renewable energy sources. We had lots of interesting discussions. pic.twitter.com/Cha0E5U4m5— Washwood Heath Academy: All Through School () December 18, 2024
@washwoodheath - 18 Dec
The Choir children from Primary were warmly welcomed to secondary to watch the Christmas production AND perform two songs. How lucky! pic.twitter.com/Ma8bUY77vs— Washwood Heath Academy: All Through School () December 18, 2024
@washwoodheath - 13 Dec
We had a surprise in school today. Miss Chanda entered a Book Competition from winning author Serena Patel. She has kindly gifted us 60 free books. I have shared this with our reader leaders. They have stamped them for us 🙂#serenapatel pic.twitter.com/LdPDA6epYG— Washwood Heath Academy: All Through School () December 13, 2024
@washwoodheath - 13 Dec
The children in Primary and Secondary have been preparing for the MAT Christmas Concert. Our children did us exceptionally proud and performed amazingly infront of the other schools and parents. We are very proud of our choir children, musicians and our performers. pic.twitter.com/v9KiseH6Fd— Washwood Heath Academy: All Through School () December 13, 2024
@washwoodheath - 13 Dec
Christmas Jumper in action in Y4! We raised some money for Save the Children 🙂 pic.twitter.com/FiQQYL3KwI— Washwood Heath Academy: All Through School () December 13, 2024
@washwoodheath - 13 Dec
Reverend Alison has visited us today in school. We learnt about the importance of Christingle and we sang Silent Night to end our morning assembly. Thank you! pic.twitter.com/fjq9ByfQDJ— Washwood Heath Academy: All Through School () December 13, 2024
@washwoodheath - 13 Dec
Book Avdent is still going strong. We are really loving the shared books! pic.twitter.com/lZiAEXvEXy— Washwood Heath Academy: All Through School () December 13, 2024
@washwoodheath - 13 Dec
Check our the weaving in Y4! This originates from the Ancient Egyptians, who began the warp and weft technique to create fabrics. pic.twitter.com/t2MQh5PdIO— Washwood Heath Academy: All Through School () December 13, 2024
@washwoodheath - 9 Dec
Our dodgeball team did us proud. Look at that trophy! pic.twitter.com/k4lWlyqz9Q— Washwood Heath Academy: All Through School () December 9, 2024
@washwoodheath - 9 Dec
The choir group have been rehearsing for their first Christmas concert next week - wahoo! pic.twitter.com/OMU9WCD89K— Washwood Heath Academy: All Through School () December 9, 2024
@washwoodheath - 9 Dec
Caught in action! That love of reading exists on the playground too! pic.twitter.com/JhKwaxZNoZ— Washwood Heath Academy: All Through School () December 9, 2024
@washwoodheath - 9 Dec
Book Advent has been thoroughly enjoyed by children during story time! pic.twitter.com/7lmHKcHTNF— Washwood Heath Academy: All Through School () December 9, 2024
@washwoodheath - 5 Dec
During the local walk, Year 3 explored how the local weather impacts various human and physical features. pic.twitter.com/JTCuvMECFa— Washwood Heath Academy: All Through School () December 5, 2024
@washwoodheath - 3 Dec
The Grand Elf visited from the North Pole to bring advent calendars to the school and brought back the Elf on the Shelf. Hopefully they will not cause too much mischief and mayhem pic.twitter.com/TI9Aibuef4— Washwood Heath Academy: All Through School () December 3, 2024
@washwoodheath - 22 Nov
Year 2 this week have been using our geography knowledge and skills in using a compass. We were able to find North, South, East and West. We used our oracy skills to locate different counties and cities within the UK. pic.twitter.com/EbvGPOrsxY— Washwood Heath Academy: All Through School () November 22, 2024
@washwoodheath - 22 Nov
In our Geography lesson we used directional language to direct our peers around the classroom and the playground. We effectively used our talk tactics to challenge the children when giving their directions! pic.twitter.com/86oIEKeFVE— Washwood Heath Academy: All Through School () November 22, 2024
@washwoodheath - 15 Nov
Children in Need in Action in Y4. Thank you to everyone for your kindness and donations. pic.twitter.com/hw5VGRvARY— Washwood Heath Academy: All Through School () November 15, 2024
@washwoodheath - 15 Nov
In year 1 we have been looking at the human body in science and we played a game where we labeled the parts of the body on the children! pic.twitter.com/Yd548vrJiT— Washwood Heath Academy: All Through School () November 15, 2024
@washwoodheath - 15 Nov
This week was kindness week. We learnt lots about how we can show kindness both inside and outside of school. The children came up with some lovey ideas, these include, sharing our toys, waving hello, smiling and helping to tidy up. We created a lovely display for our classroom. pic.twitter.com/gtMVb38hy1— Washwood Heath Academy: All Through School () November 15, 2024