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![]() Thank you for your interest in Bishop Vesey's Grammar School. We trust that you will find our school to be a lively forward looking and dynamic institution, which leads all who live and work here to a new vision of their potential. Our beliefs, principles and values are central to the culture of our school; and to what has become known as the 'Vesey Experience'. Through the information in this website, we hope to give you a glimpse of the nature of life at Bishop Vesey's Read more![]() Headteacher
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Launching Team Vesey 2010! Calling All Runners (and potential runners)!! On your marks! Get set!............... Our aim is to have a team of at least 100 participants (parents, teachers, students, governors and friends of the school) to run(or jog or walk!) in this year’s Sutton Fun Run with the ultimate target of raising £5,000+ through individual sponsorship, for school investment funds: funds that will help to support the school’s and parents’ aspirations for student achievement in academic, sports and cultural activities. Of course we won’t leave it all to you! Bishop Vesey’s is the
Arlo is a “Natural” and Usha is a “Gemini” slave, and both are on the run from the authorities…will they ever be safe? |
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![]() BHANGRA DANCING WORKSHOP Bhangra dancing workshop for Year 9 and 10 at Bishop Vesey's continues on Wednesdays, 3.25pm to 4.30pm Places still available We will be continuing Bhangra training, led by Nachda-Sansaar who are an award winning, international Bhangra group. This will build up to a performance piece for the easter concert! INTERESTED? Collect a letter from Mrs Pryor in the Language Office and get your reply back quickly
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School News
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Strip Amnesty
Sixth Form students at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School have been helping charity Strip Amnesty to collect football kits to send out to South Africa for this year's football World Cup. "Six of the Best"
An Oxbridge Success
![]() L-R: Oliver Bently, Shane McIntyre, Peter Whiting, Naomi Zainuddin, Ryan Felton, Junaid Qasim
Congratulations to six students who have been offered places at Oxford or Cambridge for entry in Autumn 2010. This represents a magnificent achievement for the individual students who have been chosen following a rigorous selection process and increasingly tough competition with, on average, only one place offered for every five applicants.
Yr 11 English Revision Classes
The sessions are open to all Year 11 students and any new additions will be very welcome. Free refreshments will also be available. Birmingham University Big Physics Quiz. Three Year 9 teams were entered to the Birmingham Big Physics Quiz. This was attended by about 70 other teams from all over Birmingham. An excellent team came second to King Edwards VI High School for girls. BVGS and King Edwards occupied the top 5 places and we also had one team at 19th place.
Our thanks go to Julie Wadeson and Phil Coulson who made the participation possible.
The teams were; Alexi Stepanenko (9W), Josh Williams (9W), Harry Marriot (9G), Dominic O'Neil (9B) who came 2nd; Joseph Davies (9W), Callum Riley (9R), Chris Nowek (9G), Bradley Perham (9G) who came 4th and George Payne (9W), Joseph Dunne (9G), Toby Lambeth (9G), Charlie White (9G), who came 19th. Nathaniel Coxon (9B) was an excellent reserve.
![]() Visiting Author - Mark Walden Mark Walden, the author of the popular H.I.V.E. series came into school on 24 November. Mark spoke to students in Years 7.8 and 9.
For students: Below is the link to the Sharp system. http://www.bishopveseys.thesharpsystem.com/ Also, below is the link to Connexions : 'Which Way Now' |
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Sports News
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Community Cohesion Through Rugby See the full report on Sky Sports 'Invictus' is now showing in cinemas Hockey Champions U18 Warwickshire County Champions at Hockey. On Tuesday 2 February BVGS emerged with the County Champions Trophy following victories over Rugby School 1 - 0 in the semi final and KES, Birmingham 1 - 0 in the final. This is a tremendous result and was last achieved by the school back in 1986. congratulations to all team members and coaches Chris Howell, Head of Hockey and James Rostron. CROSS COUNTRY
At the water-logged West Midlands Championship meeting in the War Memorial park, Coventry there were two superb performances from Vesey runners. |
Environmental Team
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The BVGS Allotment
The Environmental Team is working hard to make BVGS a green EcoSchool. we have already achieved Bronze Award EcoSchools and will be busy over spring half term preparing an allotment site in the school grounds. We would like to ask for support and donations for our green cause for the following;
Please e-mail the team on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to discuss delivery to school of the donations. |




















