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Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School is a voluntary aided, selective state grammar school which is located in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, serving day students across the city and beyond.

Welcome

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  

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News

Team Vesey 2010

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June 6th 2010 proved to be an exciting, if exhausting, day. BVGS staff, students and parents – over a 100 in total – came together as “Team Vesey” to participate in the Great Midlands Fun Run- Read more...


Year 7 Healthy Schools’ Day, 2010
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see link above for more information

 

Languages

La meilleure chaussure du monde!
 
Having studied the language and techniques used in advertising, AS French students were set the task of creating their own advertisement in French, employing the ideas discussed in class. The advertisements were then used for a peer assessment activity where the rest of the class analysed how effective and persuasive they found them.

Here, Ronan Davis, Penny Hodges, Danny Knowles and Romaine Heichtry (with some cameo roles from other students and staff) advertise "la meillure chaussure du monde"!
 
 
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Language Crash Course!
Going on holiday this summer?
Learn the essentials of French, Spanish, German, Italian or Mandarin Chinese.
5 week crash course.
 
Discounts for families**
 
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Courses start 23rd June 2010
 
(**Children under 12 Years must be accompanied by an adult.)
 

School Travelwise

If you would like travel information to Bishop Vesey's
please click on the link below -

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http://www.schooltravelwise.org.uk/
schoolregisteredinfo.aspx?SchoolID=2636

 

Reunion

Special Reunion for the

Class of 1980 :

30 years on ……

Where are you now?

On 25 September 2010 we are holding a Special 1980 Reunion as part of the OVA Annual Dinner at only £25 per head in Big School at 7.30pm.  We already have amongst our guests teachers who were at BVGS in 1980 who will be delighted to meet students they taught.  We promise a 'trip down memory lane' and a warm welcome back to BVGS starting with a Champagne Reception. 

Do pass the message on to other members of the Class of 1980 with whom you still have contact.  For more details and to sign up for the event please contact Headteacher's PA Sharon Weblin on 0121 250 5403 or via e-mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 

Ofsted Report 2010

Ofsted judgement: 

BVGS is a Good School with many Outstanding Features and an Outstanding Sixth Form 

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School News

 Healthy Schools Pupil Survey


Champion of Champions Book Quiz 2010 

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L-R: Kiel Taylor, Luke Doran, Councillor Chauhdry Rashid (Deputy Lord Mayor of Birmingham), Sam Simper, Kevin George.

On the 24 March a team of Year 8 pupils – Luke Doran, Sam Simper, Kiel Taylor and Kevin George represented the school at the Birmingham KS3 Champion of Champions Book Quiz. Read More.....

Do you think you could have answered the questions... try this sample of test questions.....

(Answers via the Links page)

 

Strip Amnesty

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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.
Read More...


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Sports News

Community Cohesion Through Rugby

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 See the full report on Sky Sports
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'Invictus' is now showing in cinemas


Hockey Champions

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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.
Sam Watkins (9B) came fourth in the U14 race and Kieran Smith (MSL) came fifth in the U19 event.  Conditions underfoot were energy-sapping and both runners showed tremendous qualities of grit and determination. 
Congratulations to both runners who have been selected to run in the English Schools Championship at Heaton Park, Manchester on 20th March.

 

Environmental Team

The BVGS Allotment

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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;

  • plant seeds or plugs
  • compost
  • water butts
  • 2 wheelbarrows

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.

 

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