Celebrating Coventry’s Secondary Schools and Academies
came to Barr’s Hill School to study GCSEs and are now completing their A-levels – they hope to take up their offer of places at Warwick University, studying biochemistry and mechanical engineering.
The school caters for students from a wide range of backgrounds and staff know individual students well, enabling them to provide the best possible support and outstanding progress. Barr’s Hill School is aspirational for its students and engages external organisations which offer additional stretch in the classroom.
For example, with tutoring and guidance from Jaguar Land Rover apprentices, four Year 12 students have completed an engineering project. They created a solar powered range extender researched, planned and manufactured from a prototype, which was then presented at Cranmore Park, Solihull. Staff from Jaguar Land Rover have also been in school working closely with students focused on mathematical techniques.
When it comes to sport, students have a wide range of choice from basketball and rugby, to football and yoga. Barr’s Hill School offers an extensive extra-curriculum programme where students can take part in competitive sports and activities both inside and outside of school. The students are very busy! Abdul Bambah, Abdul Sankoh and Armstrong Igboanugo have recently been picked to represent Coventry City Football Club, alongside Costelus Lautaru, who has been offered a two-year professional deal.
Barr’s Hill School enjoys winning! Sporting successes this year include:
Year 11 boys’ basketball – Coventry champions.
KS3 basketball – Coventry Plate Championship winners.
Finalists in both the Year 8 and 9 Coventry Football Cups.