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Visitors to Hodge Hill are immediately impressed by the warm welcome that they receive from the children and staff. The children are friendly, inquisitive, engaging, and very proud of their school. We are building Create by focusing on trusting relationships as the root of all our work. We have high expectations of everyone and we are never complacent - constantly striving to improve on our previous best. We are creating futures for everyone - our staff, our families and communities, and, of course, our children. We are also very committed to developing our high-quality staff and leaders who work hard individually and in their teams. The Trust supports their skills development and helps them to identify a career path so that they can be even more effective in ensuring that the children make the best progress personally, academically, and socially. Our vision and values are at the core of everything we do. They underpin our teaching and learning and provide an environment that prepares our pupils as confident, happy citizens. Hodge Hill Primary aims to provide a creative and challenging curriculum that inspires future thinkers, innovators, and problem-solvers in an immersive environment that stimulates and supports high-quality learning. We aim to teach children how to grow into positive, responsible people, who can work and co-operate with others while developing the drive, knowledge, and skills to become life-long learners. In line with the changes in the New Primary Curriculum, we have developed an innovative curriculum to capture children’s enthusiasm and generate excitement about learning. We will be continuing to work upon our school curriculum to make sure that it is up to date, reflects the views and the ever-changing needs of our children, so that they develop a sound and rigorous grounding in basic skills of maths, English, computing, and science whilst increasing their knowledge and understanding of the wider world around them. To ensure the children follow a broad and balanced curriculum we follow the Primary Curriculum for the statutory Primary school subjects English, maths, science, computing, physical education, history, geography, music, art, design and technology, and foreign languages. We also follow the guidance given by the Department for Education and Local Authority, which we adapt to meet the needs of our children, to teach Religious Education, Personal, Social and Health Education. This includes relationship and growth, anti-bullying and extremism, e-safety, and drug and alcohol education. View full school

As a small school with strong community values, we know and care for every pupil as an individual. All local pupils are welcome in this school. We do not have a selection process and we strive to meet the needs of each member of our school community, celebrating diversity and always striving for equality in our school family and the wider world. Our ethos encourages mutual respect and support to enable every pupil to make the greatest personal, social and academic progress during their time with us, preparing them for successful careers and fulfilling lives. A relentless drive for the best academic progress for each pupil sits comfortably alongside the wider curriculum where values education embraces citizenship, pupil voice, charity, and community work. This term we are developing new partnerships with a local care home for the elderly and Trident Reach the People Charity alongside well-established links like the Stechford Food Bank. Charity work raises over £6000 every year. A pupil pilot group has started planning our route through the UNICEF Rights, Respecting Responsibilities Mark and Hodge Hill Girls’ School Thinktank are ready to begin their work. In academic studies, there are personalized pathways in learning to meet the needs of individuals and groups of pupils. Lessons use a blend of modern technology, traditional teaching, and individual support in every area of the curriculum. We understand from our self-evaluation that differentiation and challenge in lessons are of paramount importance to rates of individual pupil progress. The quality of marking, feedback, pupil response, and homework support the pace of learning – these areas have been and continue to be areas of focus for the school. Here at Hodge Hill Girls' School, we genuinely value and strive to enhance working partnerships with our families, feeder schools, and our local community. This partnership is essential in raising standards and achievement, every member of our family has a role to play in raising the aspirations of all our pupils to ensure we are "Educating Tomorrow's Women Today". Our aim is Pupils, Families, Staff, and Governors working together in consultation to help every pupil make expected progress, to help many pupils make better than expected progress, and to help some pupils to make exceptional progress by: Ensuring pupils attend for a minimum of 96% and are not late. Rewarding personal endeavor and community commitment. Helping pupils overcome challenges in their work and behavior. Supporting physical health and emotional resilience. Developing teaching and curriculum for high-quality learning. Developing the site, building, and resources for best value 21st-century learning. Education should help pupils respond to the opportunities and challenges of the rapidly changing world in which we live and work. In particular, they need to be prepared as individual citizens, to respond to the changing pattern of work and leisure, the expansion of communication systems, and the increasingly global nature of our world. In this context, we have developed a balanced curriculum framework that allows a flexible but coherent approach to study for all pupils. We are committed to raising the achievements, attainments, and aspirations of everyone in our school community and address equal opportunities by carefully considering the diverse needs of our young women about ability and cultural background. The core purpose of Secondary Education is to enable young people to learn and achieve. We work with determination to ensure that literacy, numeracy, Information Communication Technology, and thinking skills progress from Primary School and are integrated into the basic skills curriculum for all pupils. Curriculum extension and enrichment are key elements of the opportunities offered within the day, as an integrated part of our Curriculum and Achievement Days and in Out of Hours Clubs and Teams. We have high expectations for our pupils, which are communicated through our monitoring and target-setting processes. Regular individual and group reviews and assessments provide information regarding progress and help us to review together what is learned and taught, and provide intervention should this be necessary. Pupil progress is reviewed regularly throughout the academic year. View full school

Hodge Hill College is an 11-16 co-educational school serving a wide area to the north and east of Birmingham. It is an 8 form entry school with 1200 pupils on roll. The school serves a rich and diverse area with pupils coming from some 37 different feeder schools. During the last four years, we have been working hard to transform our learning environment and our outcomes for pupils. At Hodge Hill College we believe that all our pupils can achieve if they have confidence, a clear focus, and actively participate in learning. British Values: of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect, and tolerance permeates college life, underpins our curriculum delivery, and supports the high expectations we set our pupils. We have traveled a great distance as a college during the last three years. We are a ‘good school’, with good results, but want even more for our pupils. That’s why our focus is on pupil self-management and independent learning. Without these skills, our pupils will not reach outstanding outcomes. Our ethos drives our personal and community development. Our focus is to develop pupil confidence, aspiration, self-management, and hard work which enables all our pupils to Dream, Believe, Achieve. Our pupils need high aspirations for their careers and working adult life to provide focus and direction. Our pupils need the confidence for self-belief, the ability to try and sometimes fail, but through that failure learn, developing wisdom and maturity. By taking that leap of faith, through self-belief we achieve our goals. Hard work, focus, determination and the right attitudes to learning help us overcome obstacles and achieve all our life goals. Our college CARE brand: Courtesy, Aspiration, Respect, and Empathy is embedded in the daily lives of our pupils. It helps them to develop maturity, character, and resilience. British values are an intrinsic part of college life delivered through the college ethos and in particular through our Care brand. They also underpin our assemblies, thought for the day, and college displays. A large number of projects have been undertaken by different year groups to explore the theme and communicate it to the whole college population. Also, external agencies have been invited to provide training on INSET days to ensure that staff is fully aware of what they should be promoting. Our state-of-the-art facilities ensure that pupils get the best possible opportunities to succeed. Success comes with continued partnership working with parents and families to ensure that all pupils fulfill their potential. The curriculum at Hodge Hill College aims to provide breadth and balance for all pupils at both key stage 3 and key stage 4. Pupils all undertake studies in the core subjects: English, mathematics, and science, together with humanities, language, arts, creative, design, and sports-based subjects. This is maintained at key stage four to ensure that pupils gain a balance of qualifications which will provide them with the widest possible opportunities for progression into the sixth form. This breadth also offers diverse opportunities for university, apprenticeship, and employment choices. Balance ensures doors are held open at all times to all pupils. As a college, we are committed to ensuring that pupils gain an understanding of the contribution the arts play to enriching their lives, and the key part they play in the national and global economy. Learning to contextualize our common history, geography, and religious beliefs build greater understanding, character, and stronger communities. Finally, healthy bodies support healthy minds and as a college, we believe, all our pupils need to understand how these two issues are intertwined. Enabling all pupils to take charge of their health secures good learning and future economic security for our community. View full school