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Shireland Collegiate Academy
Address
Waterloo Rd Smethwick , West Midlands , B66 4ND England
Information
Type	High School Sixth Form
Religious affiliation(s)	No Religious Affiliation
Established	1907
Specialist	Arts, Languages and E-learning
Head teacher	Sir Mark Grundy
Gender	Mixed
Age	11 to 19
Website	http://www.collegiateacademy.org.uk/

Shireland Collegiate Academy is a Secondary School in the English academy programme, located in Smethwick, West Midlands, England. The school was built during the early 20th century. Originally called Shireland High School, and then later Shireland Language College. The school became Shireland Collegiate Academy in 2007.

The Academy, and its predecessor schools has been run by Sir Mark Grundy since 1997 who was knighted for his services to education for his work within the school and its partner Academy.^[1] Shireland Collegiate Academy were in a partnership with George Salter until September 2011 when George Salter decided to join the Ormiston Academies Trust and Shireland became a stand-alone Academy. The Academy is fully sponsored by Microsoft.

The Academy was rated as Outstanding in 2011.

The Department of Education School Level Census 2010 lists the composition of the Academy as follows^[2] :

Total Pupils 1260

Significant Ethnic Populations:

206 (16%) White British 193 (15%) Indian 327 (25%) Pakistani 122 (9%) Black African 113 (9%) Black Caribbean

Gender Split:

675 Females 585 Males

The Academy operates an unusual curriculum at Key Stage 3. Students are taught for 17 hours with the same teacher in Year 7, 13 hours in Year 8 and 8 hours in Year 9. These groups are taught under the badge of Literacy for Life (L4L) a competency based curriculum taught in a number of thematic units. This methadology is based on the ^[3] Re-inventing Schools Coalition (RISC) work pioneered in Alaska.

In the most recent ^[4] inspection, the Academy was granted an Outstanding rating by Paul Brooker, Lead Inspector for Academies. The Academy gained outstanding judgements for the following areas:

• Overall Judgement
• Quality of pupils' learning and their progress
• The extent to which students feel safe
• The extent to which pupils contribute to the school and wider community
• Pupils' attendance
• The quality of teaching
• The use of assessment to support learning
• The effectiveness of care, guidance and support
• The effectiveness of leadership and management in embedding ambition and driving improvement
• The effectiveness of the school's engagement with parents and carers
• The effectivenes of partnerships in promoting learning and wellbeing
• The effectiveness with which the school promotes equality of opportunity and tackles discrimination
• The effectiveness of safeguarding procedures
• The effectiveness with which the school promotes community cohesion
• Overall effectiveness of the Early Years Foundation Stage

In 2011, the Academy posted the following results:^[5]

• 47% of students at the end of Year 11 obtained 5 or more A*-C grades including English and Mathematics.
• 90% of students at the end of Year 11 obtained 5 or more A*-C grades not including English and Mathematics.
• At Post-16 92% of students obtained an A-Level pass at E grade or above.

In 2011 the overall Academy attendance figure was 94.6%.

The Academy has a School Based Company Shireland Learning which provides e-learning support and consultancy. They are responsible for the creation of the Shireland Learning Gateway, a virtual learning environment and management tool based on Microsoft Sharepoint technology. The gateway has been used by as many as 130 schools both within and beyond the United Kingdom. This work was used as the focal point of the opening of the BETT show in 2010 and in the main address by the Schools Minister, Lord Jim Knight.^[6]

• Official website