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• A new lease of life

  KINDHEARTED Bromsgrove School has given 190 reconditioned computers to ten schools on the Caribbean island of Dominica. read more

• Sophie brushes up for award

  A TALENTED artist has scooped a top prize in an awards contest. read more

• We’ve got designs on success

  CONSTRUCTIVE Dodderhill School pupils have been busy building models as part of the national Young Engineers competition. read more

• They’re junior record breakers

  West House School pupils have won a record number of places at the city's leading secondary schools after excelling in their 11-plus exams. read more

• James makes the grade

  A music maestro has made history at a Birmingham primary school with a record-breaking performance on the violin. read more

• A holiday on ice

  COLD FRONT: The children had to wrap up well during Heathfield School's senior skiing trip to Canada. The skiing was, as usual, absolutely wonderful and the pupils also took part in a number of other activities, including a visit to an enormous ice cavern, where children from the Wolverley school were dwarfed by the gigantic ice structures. read more

• A gardening we will go

  FULL OF BEANS: Budding gardeners from the foundation stage at The Knoll School in Kidderminster have been having lots of fun in their new garden and are hoping for a bumper crop of vegetables. read more

• It’s snow business

  THERE was fun for all when Stourbridge's Elmfield Rudolf Steiner School stayed open for the two days of snow when the LEA decided to close all its schools due to the bad weather. read more

• Now bring on the Aussies

  Howzata leading Birmingham prep school has won the West Midlands County Primary Indoor Cricket Competition at the first attempt. read more

• We are the champions

  The RGS Worcester U-12A netball team continued its unbeaten run by winning the city schools' netball tournament. read more

• World cup

  Maddy Hurley, a year 13 pupil at Malvern St James, has been picked to play lacrosse for the Welsh world cup squad. read more

• National final

  THE under-18s girls hockey team from Bromsgrove School proved once again that it was one of the best in the country at the National Indoor Championships. read more

• A group of model students

  Five sixth form students from Old Swinford Hospital represented the UK at the Model European Parliament of all 28 member states in Sofia, Bulgaria, during April. read more

• Oh no it isn’t!

  YOUNGSTERS at Heathfield School, Wolverley, got into the spirit of things when they put on a performance of the Pied Piper. read more

• Courting success

  THREE BEARS: Years one and two at The Knoll School in Kidderminster thoroughly enjoyed practising and then performing their spring term play, which was Roald Dahl's version of Goldilocks and Three Bears. read more

• Matching Eton

  Bromsgrove School has received the most Good School Guide awards for any co-educational independent school in the country and shares top position with Eton, Wycombe Abbey and North London Collegiate, all of which are single sex. read more

• Where exam results are only part of the story

  King Edward's School, Birmingham, has been one of the best academic schools in the country for over a century and the school continues to have an outstanding academic record: 90 per cent As and Bs at A-level last year, along with 86 per cent As and A*s at GCSE. read more

• Girls are well spoken

  Francesca Clixby and Olivia Reed have won the quarter final heat in the Midlands Schools Debating Contest. read more

• Peter takes the hot seat

  The governors of Old Swinford Hospital, Stourbridge, have announced that Peter Jones, who is currently the deputy headmaster, will take over as headmaster from September 2007. read more

• A winning year

  THE year 2007 has proved to be a winning one for King Edward VI High School for Girls (KEHS) as a number of different girls and groups have been scooping external triumphs in areas well outside their ordinary school curriculum. read more

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