Arden Academy

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Arden Academy
Arden-Academy-Front-Gate.jpg
Address
Arden Academy
Station Road

Solihull
,
West Midlands
,
B93 0PT

United Kingdom
Coordinates 52°23′07″N1°44′18″W / 52.38517°N 1.73830°W / 52.38517; -1.73830
Information
Type Academy
MottoAd Altiora ("To the Higher")
Local authority Solihull
Department for Education URN 136333 Tables
Ofsted Reports
HeadteacherMr David Warwood
Gender Coeducational
Age11to 18
Enrolment1774
HousesCurie, Parks, Attenborough, Darwin and Nightingale
Colour(s)Green/gold
Website https://www.arden.solihull.sch.uk/

Arden Academy (formerly Arden School) is a ten form entry (from 2015) mixed comprehensive secondary school with academy status It was re-designated as an 11-18 school in September 2008. Arden is situated in the village of Knowle, three miles from Solihull town centre in the West Midlands, United Kingdom.

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History

Arden started its life in the 1950s as a two form entry 11-15 Warwickshire School. Since then the school has expanded considerably and developed accommodation, particularly specialist areas. Within the teaching blocks there are a number of classrooms containing suites of computers, there is a wireless network across the academy and in some subject areas like science and history, there are banks of i-pads.[ citation needed ]

In the last fifteen years specialist teaching spaces have been constructed for many areas:

In 2006 there was a 'Post 16 Centre' installed, with the first trial year group finishing in Summer 2008. The pilot sixth-form was successful, and gave Arden School its official 11-18 status the following year. The sixth-form admits approximately 120 students each year.[ citation needed ]

As of October 2010, Arden Schoolbecame an academy under government plans and was renamed 'Arden' or 'Arden Academy'. Due to its academical status it became independent from the local council.[ citation needed ]

In September 2020 Arden was forced to close for two weeks due to a failure to contain and isolate COVID-19 cases on site. [1]

The music block at Arden Academy in Knowle, West Midlands Arden-Academy-Music-Block.jpg
The music block at Arden Academy in Knowle, West Midlands

Forms and Houses

There are ten forms in each year, each given a letter taken from the school's name: ARDEN SCHOL

Arden operates a house system with five houses: [2]

HouseNamed afterColour
Darwin Charles Darwin Blue
Curie Marie Curie Yellow
Parks Rosa Parks Purple
Nightingale Florence Nightingale Red
Attenborough David Attenborough Green

Prior to the expansion to five houses, Arden had four houses with two forms per year assigned to each house: [3]

HouseNamed afterColour
Aylward Gladys Aylward Blue
Baird John Logie Baird Yellow
Eliot George Eliot Purple
Fleming Alexander Fleming Red

Awards

In 2013, Arden won the 'Class of the Year' award from 'The School Awards', run by The Birmingham Mail in association with the Pallasades. This was for work on anti-bullying policies, in particular an Anti-Homophobia campaign. Teacher Mr Warwood attended the ceremony held at the Birmingham Think Tank with students Gerard Groves, James Gavigan, and Katie Kraddock who had been heavily involved in the campaigns. [4] [5]

In 2019 Arden library was shortlisted for The Bookseller's 'Library of the Year' [6]

New Arden Academy

Beginning in 2015, Arden began planning to demolish the current site to make way for 1000 additional houses with an entirely new site to be built on a plot of land not far from the original. The proposed new site would include a Swimming pool, Performing arts theatre, Day Nursery, and Youth Centre. The reasons cited for the development of a new site include drainage problems, lack of previously mentioned facilities, and poor disabled access. [7]

Alumni

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References

  1. ↑ "Coronavirus: Knowle Arden Academy closing for two weeks". BBC News. 23 September 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  2. ↑ "House System". Arden Academy. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  3. ↑ (PDF) http://www.arden.solihull.sch.uk/assets/Uploads/Files/News/Issue-3-December-2016.pdf . Retrieved 13 April 2022.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ Mail, Birmingham (9 July 2013). "Your Communities: Birmingham Mail School Awards 2013". birminghammail. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  5. ↑ "AWARD winning campaigns » Arden Academy". www.arden.solihull.sch.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  6. ↑ "Bookseller Library of the Year » The Bookseller". thebookseller.com. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  7. ↑ https://www.arden.solihull.sch.uk/assets/Uploads/Downloads/Arden-2020/Arden-Centre-for-Community-Learning-5.03.2019.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
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