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Birmingham Ormiston Academy is an independent state-funded 14-19 academy specializing in Creative, Digital, and Performing Arts. BOA is sponsored by Ormiston Trust and Birmingham City University. The academy opened in September 2011 in a brand-new landmark building, located at the hub of the digital and creative industries in the West Midlands. It has superb facilities for academic, vocational, and extra-curricular activities. BOA is one hundred percent selective based on aptitude within the specialisms and is unique in both its admissions and approach to education. The academy aims to be at the forefront of the development of the arts and creative industries. Outstanding teaching coupled with constant support and guidance underpins the students' personalized learning experiences. The curriculum is designed to develop the specifically identified talents, gifts, and potential of each student. Performance, production, creativity, and excellence will be at the center of their experiences. Working in partnership with industry, our programs of study are delivered by both excellent teachers and skilled professionals. Teaching is of the highest quality and students can apply their learning to the world of work. Encompassing a full range of vocational, traditional, and enrichment courses, our students have the opportunity to individualize their learning pathways. Gaining qualifications accepted by universities or career-specific courses related to areas within the creative industry sector. Together with our founding partners, Maverick TV and the BRIT School, we have numerous creative, business, and industry partners. They offer high levels of support, investment, expertise, and opportunities for both students and the academy. Although located in the heart of Birmingham, BOA is a regional academy admitting students from Birmingham and the Local Authorities of Coventry, Dudley, Solihull, Sandwell, Walsall, and Wolverhampton. Ten percent of students are also admitted from the wider West Midlands. Birmingham Ormiston Academy is committed to providing high-quality and distinctive education through a specialist curriculum delivered in outstanding facilities. The academy seeks to attract students from across a range of backgrounds and academic abilities who can demonstrate aptitude in the creative, digital, and performing arts. Specializing in the arts, we will provide a dynamic and personalized learning pathway for each individual. It is our philosophy to unlock each student’s potential. Through our teaching, partnerships, industry links, pastoral care, and monitoring we aim to foster ambition and a culture of high expectations and standards. Staff, partners, and students operate in an atmosphere that promotes excellence, celebrates success, and encourages opportunities for risk-taking through which real learning can take place. Students will not only achieve their personal best but exceed all expectations. As a regional academy of excellence for the teaching of creative, digital, and performing arts, BOA combines the academic and vocational to provide unrivaled opportunities for its students to work alongside industry professionals. Located at the hub of the creative and digital industries and adjacent to Birmingham City University’s city-center campus, the academy can draw on the experience of our education and industry partners. BOA has already developed a range of joint projects and programs of study with the industries in which students would be likely to find work. All students will be encouraged to work diligently, develop independence, self-confidence, respect, and awareness of others. Students have a purpose-built, fully supervised learning resource center together with numerous networked and wireless break-out areas to give them effective private study time. Students will be offered work experience. Placements will be arranged to complement areas related to the chosen pathway. As many of our courses are career specific, meaning the course relates to a specific area of employment or industry within the arts, much of the study is a combination of learning and doing through skills, focused work-related projects, or work experience. View full school

Ormiston College is an independent, co-educational educational, non-denominational Christian school located in Ormiston, in the heart of Redland City. We deliver a high-quality educational experience, where students feel they belong and where parents realize their aspirations for their children. We unlock each student's personal and academic potential through a well-rounded curriculum while developing the knowledge and skills to succeed. At Ormiston College, we are trailblazers for educational innovation, ensuring students are fully prepared for the future. We are recognized worldwide as one of only a select number of Schools of Excellence by Microsoft and are recognized as Microsoft Showcase School. Our experienced academics deliver the curriculum in future-focused, innovative, connected, and inspired ways from early childhood, providing your child with an outstanding education. State-of-the-art ICT tools and trailblazing smart facilities encourage our students to explore and embrace the future through programs, including collaborative learning with global experts, 3D printing, robotics, and STEM programs. Our innovation is balanced with individual care and a focus on the fundamentals. Ormiston College has an outstanding reputation for providing our students with a quality, caring, private education. Our students excel not only academically but also through an extensive range of cultural and sporting opportunities. We develop empowered learners who think flexibly, work independently and collaboratively, and solve real-world problems. Our students uncompromisingly strive for success and take on their dreams with confidence and compassion as they go out into the community as the leaders and innovators of the future. As parents, school choice is one of the most critical decisions on behalf of our children. It is a decision that significantly influences their future and their attitude towards learning, goal striving, success, and happiness. It is 'their future' but 'your decision,' and we understand your aspiration to give them every opportunity for success. Ormiston College staff are aware of the tremendous trust and responsibility placed upon them to ensure each child in their care is encouraged, challenged, and given every opportunity to develop a sense of purpose and emotional well-being alongside the desire to learn and achieve. We are known as a happy school where students and staff work together to accomplish inspired goals. We are proud of our eminent reputation as one of the finest co-educational educational schools in Queensland. This reputation has been gained due to high academic success continually experienced by past and current students. Our Mission Statement is not empty rhetoric but a vibrant affirmation of the beliefs, values, and direction of our College. Ormiston College is an independent, co-educational educational, non-denominational Christian school seeking to achieve academic excellence. Ormiston College aims to nurture and encourage enthusiasm for and commitment to the pursuit of lifelong learning. The College is committed to providing holistic, integrated educational programs that develop problem-solving, decision-making, critical and creative thinking skills to enable students to participate as confident and contributing members of society, capable of meeting the demands of a rapidly changing world. The College affirms individual differences and actively promotes cultural and intellectual understanding and the development of each member of the school community's physical skills. The provision of challenging opportunities for the character, responsibility, initiative and integrity, social awareness, and good citizenship is a priority in the College. We Value A caring and nurturing environment in the Junior School, focusing on literacy, numeracy, and support. An academically oriented Senior School underpinned by quality teaching, technology, and a comprehensive student welfare program. Wide-ranging, successful co-curricular sporting and cultural programs. Cultivation of self-worth, emotional resilience, discipline, compassion, loyalty, and social responsibility. Laying the foundation for lifelong achievement through a schooling experience based on traditional values and a firm knowledge base, utilizing innovative technologies, and high-quality teaching and learning practices. View full school