Light Hall School

Light Hall School is located in Shirley, West Midlands. It exceeds the national average of marks every year in both GCSEs and KS3.The current headteacher at Light Hall School is Victor Scutt assisted by Robert Barr as his Deputy Headteacher.The school is a specialist college in I.C.T and Mathematics.Light Hall School was established on Hathaway Road in the 1950s as a Boys Grammar School on land once belonging to Light Hall Farm.

Light Hall School is one of sixteen secondary schools situated in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the UK. The school hosts over 1250 hundred students from the age of eleven to sixteen. With a special performing I.C.T and Mathematics status, the school attracts children interested in I.C.T, Sports and Mathematics.

Latest Ofsted Report Findings

Light Hall School is satisfactory but improving, with many good features. For instance:

• The high standards many of the pupils achieve in your GCSE examinations.
• The wide range of opportunities to take part in activities after school.
• The range of subjects pupils can study and the way the school gives pupils choices on which subjects you want to take in Years 10 and 11.
• The high quality of some of the teaching.
• Your very good attendance and the good relationships pupils form with adults in the school and with each other.
• The way the school helps pupils if they have any difficulties.
• The contribution pupils make through the school council to improvements in the school.

The Fire

In 2006 the school suffered a huge fire destroying classrooms, staff rooms, a dining area and an Upper school hall. The school is due to under go a multi-million pound rebuild as from the summer 2007.

The cause of the fire is not yet known. Recently the local council granted the extra funds needed for the desired re-build, a two-story state of the art teaching block. The new block will be the start of a complete re-build of the school within the in the next 10-15 years which will house a Learning Resource suite (incorporating Library and ICT facilities)

The Rebuild

Light Hall School are delighted that they have secured the additional funding required to build a quality building for what will now be the first phase of a complete rebuild of the school.

The inspirational design (see plans attached) will house the accommodation lost in their fire of February 2007. In addition, it will also contain fully integrated and modern facilities for the performing arts (music and drama) plus new teaching rooms for our main specialism, mathematics. Our new dining facilities will be student-centred and have the flexibility to extend into external seating. Also included will be a modern library with extensive e-learning facilities.

These major new facilities will form the first half of a complete rebuild of the school. The second phase may be a few years away but Light Hall School are extremely encouraged by the progress we have made to-date.The building is expected to be complete in October 2008.

External links

* [http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41379000/jpg/_41379192_fire2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/4753344.stm&h=152&w=203&sz=10&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=8-VxGW1V7A0ApM:&tbnh=79&tbnw=105&prev=/images%3Fq%3DLight%2Bhall%2Bschool,%2Bshirley%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GFRD_en___GB228] A BBC report of the Schools recent fire
* [http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupHomepage.asp?GroupID=21467] Schools Website.
* [http://www.dfes.gov.uk/cgi-bin/performancetables/dfe1x1_02.pl?Code=&Mode=Z&School=3344018] Department For Children
* [http://www.solihull-online.com/lighthall.htm] Light Hall Reunions