Haiti fundraiser

February 03, 2010

AGS raised £292.12 for the Haiti disaster relief fund. We did this through a cake sale and a cash donation option through the ‘H’ for Haiti in The Community Theatre.

AGS is is 4th best...read it here

January 17, 2010

The data for most improved school, nationally, has placed AGS as the 4th most improved. This is based on our fantastic achievement in the 2009 exams against what we achieved in 2008. If we go over a 3 year spread, we are 33rd most improved, placing 55th most improved for a 4 year spread. Fantastic stuff!

We also received a congratulatroy letter from the Right Honourable Ed Balls, Secretary of State from Children, Younf People and Families.

AGS...walking in a Winter wonderland

January 07, 2010

The stunning morning of January 7th and the equally brilliant 8th. AGS can be such a beautiful site!

Help For Heroes event...

December 20, 2009

AGS raised £777.62 on a single morning to support this wonderful charity. Brad Everitt, Army, and Tom Dally, RAF and a former AGS pupil, were on hand to distribute awards for the Autumn term. Students and staff came together and went for a non-uniform day to raise money. Staff raised money by donating cash rather than sending Christmas cards to each other and some hard working KS3 students had a very successful cake sale.

We wish Brad and Tom every success as they run 100 miles between Ewood park and Villa Park.

2009 Exams Successes

December 16, 2009

Unbelievable maybe, but it’s absolutely true. With 1 or 2 more results pending and the odd re-mark claim, the numbers here are the minumum. The news just keeps on getting better and better. Here are our school headline scores:

62% 5 A*-C, a new school record by 18%, treble the score in 2004 and 9% above target.

47% 5 A*-C including English and Maths, a new school record, 400% better than in 2004 and 13% above target.

Headline department scores:
English 54% C or better
Maths 55%
Music 100% (double award)
Performing Arts 100% (double award)
German 100%
Art & Design 94% (double award)
Science 50%
French 86%.

These results are a credit to the entire Ash Green School & Arts College community. Well done to all our brilliant students!

*Stop press: Ash Green School & Arts College again holds the title as the most improved school in Warwickshire…and we cannot wait to see how far up the table… [read more]

Rewards Scheme

August 18, 2009

We have introduced a new rewards scheme for 2009-2010. There are different schemes for Key Stages 3 and 4.

KS3

Students will be given credits for work that goes above and beyond the norm. Teachers and other staff may award up to 3 credits per lesson or activity. The credits themselves are plastic discs, pictured here. Students then pass these credits to their Form Tutors and a score will be kept. The Form Tutor returns the credits to the central store for re-cycling. We have 6,000 crdits in stock. When a student reaches a certain points total, they receive specially made badges, awarded during formal school assemblies.

Bronze = 100 points
Silver = 200 points
Gold = 300 points
Bronze + Gold or 2 x Silver = 400 points, and so on.

KS4

Students will receive Attitudes to Learning scores based upon a 9 point scale. 9 is the highest. Scores of 7 to 9 will count towards the prize draw. Here’s how it wor… [read more]

2009-2010 Curriculum Interventions: New Staff appointments

March 24, 2009

AGS is pleased to announce the appointment of 3 new colleagues, arriving to support the drive towards our highly ambitious targets for 2010. Joining us for this academic year are:

Daniel McShane. A graduate, Daniel brings with him experience in working in secondary education in far flung parts of the world. He has ambitions to join the teaching profession. He will support Year 11 students in English and Maths and Daniel is also a level 1 qualified FA football coach.

Marina McQueen. Marina has ambitions to further her experience before possibly joining the teaching profession. She will support Year 11 students in English and she brings with her an excellent collection of qualifications, not least her degree.

Lee Parry. Lee is a former professional rugby player, having served successfully at Coventry RFC. Lee still has ambitions of even greater achievements in the… [read more]

New Student leaders for 2009-2010

March 24, 2009

The school is pleased to announce the appointment of new Student Leaders for 2009-2010:

Head Boy: Jack Spawton-Rice
Head Girl: Molly Haltam
Deputy Head Boy: Nathan Callaghan
Deputy Head Girl: Laura Duggan

The school has also appointed a team of new Senior Prefects and Prefects to begin duties and other roles starting on Tuesday May 5th. They will be joined by a new team of Media Crew technicians to assist in the running of our state-of-the-art theatre facility.

BTEC's full speed ahead at AGS

November 17, 2008

September 2009 sees the further development of BTEC’s at AGS. We now offer this qualification in these subjects:

Art and Design, Hospitality and Catering, Media Studies, Performing Arts, ICT, Science, Music, Sport and Business Studies.

Each BTEC is worth 2 GCSE’s and all are entirely coursework based. We believe this is one of the most imaginative steps we have taken in modernising our curriculum. Students would agree…BTEC’s proved to be an extremely popular option choice for our current Year 10 students.

AGS in top 6!

September 15, 2008

AGS has again received recognition from the Government. This time, the school has been credited with being the 6th most improved school in England at KS3. This based on a 3 year trend and places AGS as the number 1 most improved school in the West Midlands.

We would like to thank the whole school community for being part of this incredible journey. It is a remarkable achievement.