Year 11 student Hannah Meek has been selected to play for England in the forthcoming Euro and World Championship competitions.  She was one of two top winning girls to get a place on the team. As a member of the England team for the 2023 British Internationals, Hannah will play in venues up and down...Read More

Our Principal looks back on the first term of the academic year and sees the hope it shows for the future. We began the new academic year in September with a clear focus on motivating students to achieve their best with a simple message – Back to School; this spirit has pervaded.  In addition to...Read More

This week is Anti-Bullying Week and its theme is Reach Out. Two of our five core values at Heart of England are courage and kindness.  It takes both to reach out. Our society and its many communities have been through the most extraordinary events in the last two years, we all know we need to...Read More

Since the announcement of our Queen’s death last Thursday our school, mirroring the whole country, has been adjusting to the news.  On Friday morning my Vice Principals and I held an assembly with Year 7 that focused on the values our monarch modelled throughout the 70 years of her reign.  This week we will be...Read More

Our Principal Miss Hughes-Williams writes an end-of-year message as we break up for the Summer… So here we are at the threshold of a summer break without restrictions and thresholds are always a good place to pause. Our term has ended in a flurry of awards and recognition for our students who have been making...Read More

On Thursday we welcomed all the Year 6 students who will be joining us for Year 7 in September 2022.  During the Transition Day the students met their tutors, were welcomed by the Principal and took part in lessons including English, maths and science. The day began with a welcome from our Principal Miss Hughes-Williams...Read More

Tucked away in Leveson is our lovely Well-Being room.  It’s a bit like the Tardis – its looks small but seems much larger inside. It has an array of colourful, crystal singing bowls.  One of which was donated to the school by a Teachers’ Union last summer. The Well-Being room is equipped with a few...Read More

Year 9 students have started the week with some special workshops to help them ‘find their own hero’ in developing a sense of self, in confidence-building and to recognise and deal with bullying.  The sessions started with students gathering in the hall in three separate sessions to take part in a workshop led by coach...Read More

When new members of staff join us, they bring with them their skills, working practices and professionalism to the benefit of our students and other staff.  This term, we introduce our new SENDCo Mr Chauhan-Treadwell who brings a little extra something… Since the beginning of term our new Assistant Principal for Inclusion and SENDCo (Special...Read More

Assistant Principal Mr Haston has been coordinating some activities around academic recovery throughout the school.  Here he writes about one of the initiatives called Resilient Me which we ran in April for Years 9, 10 and 11: As part of our school’s community-academic recovery, we have invested in an external company called Resilient Me to...Read More