Trinity High School and Sixth Form Centre

For schools of the same name, see Trinity High School (disambiguation).

Trinity High School and Sixth Form Centre
Location
Easemore Road Redditch , Worcestershire , B98 8HB
Coordinates	52°18′32″N1°56′09″W / 52.308881°N 1.935698°W / 52.308881; -1.935698
Information
Type	Academy
Established	2001
Local authority	Worcestershire County Council
Specialist	Business & Enterprise
Department for Education URN	137167 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Chair	Barry Preever
Headteacher	Nigel Ford
Gender	Mixed
Age	13to 18
Enrolment	837 [1]
Sixth form students	164 [1]
Houses	Bredon, Kinver, Malvern
Colours	Blue, Yellow, Green
Website	http://www.trinity.worcs.sch.uk/

Trinity High School and Sixth Form Centre is a 13-18 co-educational academy school located in central Redditch, Worcestershire, England. ^[1]

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. ^[1] A 2010 Ofsted report accorded the school a Grade 2 (Good). ^[1]

History

The school began as the Redditch County High School, a grammar school with around 1,000 boys and girls, with 200 in the sixth form. The school operated a house system with four houses, Angles, Celts, Jutes and Saxons. The main school buildings designed by Henry Walter Simister opened in 1932. It became a comprehensive school in 1974, and was renamed the Abbey High School after the nearby ruins of Bordesley Abbey, continuing to operate the original house system. In 2001 the Abbey High School was closed and reopened as Trinity High School and Sixth Form Centre. In 2004, Trinity became a Business and Enterprise specialist school, and on 1 August 2011 Trinity became Redditch's first Independent State Funded Academy.

Feeder schools

Trinity High School draws the majority of its intake in from its two feeder schools, Birchensale Middle School and Woodfield Academy.

Notable former pupils

Abbey High School

• Geoffrey Edmunds, cricketer
• John Taylor, bassist in the group Duran Duran

Redditch County High School

• Bryan Davies, Baron Davies of Oldham, Labour MP for Enfield North from 1974 to 1979 and Oldham Central and Royton from 1992 to 1997
• Norman Neasom, painter
• Ric Sanders, Violin/Fiddle player with Fairport Convention

References

1. Ofsted report November 2007 ^{[ permanent dead link ]} Retrieved 27 July 2009

External links

• EduBase ^{[ permanent dead link ]}