Alderbrook Secondary School
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Alderbrook Leading Edge School & Arts College is a co-educational comprehensive
school in Solihull
, West Midlands
. It shares grounds with the neighbouring schools of Tudor Grange School and St. Peter's RC School
.
In 2004, David Miliband
toured Alderbrook to promote the General National Vocational Qualifications (GNVQ).
The school turned into an academy in August 2011, under new legislation introduced by the government earlier that year. The school uses cashless dinner systems, and five colleges - Hockney, Shakespeare, Tait, Moore and Elgar - are used to classify the school into groups. These names are taken from previous or current artists, musicians, writers and actors to symbolise the school's arts specialism.
The school has personal school buses, and also many pupils use the public transport buses, including the number 6, 76, 49 and S4.
Comprehensive school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...
school in Solihull
Solihull
Solihull is a town in the West Midlands of England with a population of 94,753. It is a part of the West Midlands conurbation and is located 9 miles southeast of Birmingham city centre...
, West Midlands
West Midlands (county)
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a 2009 estimated population of 2,638,700. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The...
. It shares grounds with the neighbouring schools of Tudor Grange School and St. Peter's RC School
St. Peter's RC Secondary School, Solihull
St. Peter's RC Secondary School is a coeducational Roman Catholic secondary comprehensive school and Sixth Form college in the English town of Solihull, West Midlands. St...
.
In 2004, David Miliband
David Miliband
David Wright Miliband is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for South Shields since 2001, and was the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2007 to 2010. He is the elder son of the late Marxist theorist Ralph Miliband...
toured Alderbrook to promote the General National Vocational Qualifications (GNVQ).
The school turned into an academy in August 2011, under new legislation introduced by the government earlier that year. The school uses cashless dinner systems, and five colleges - Hockney, Shakespeare, Tait, Moore and Elgar - are used to classify the school into groups. These names are taken from previous or current artists, musicians, writers and actors to symbolise the school's arts specialism.
The school has personal school buses, and also many pupils use the public transport buses, including the number 6, 76, 49 and S4.