This year we have joined up with Birches Head High School in a joint venture to assist with their course work leading to BTEC First Diploma in Business Studies.

At Birches Head High School they aim to support each child developing the skills, values and knowledge to prepare them for the ever changing lifestyle of the technological age of the 21st century. As a school they are committed to providing an education that prepares the students to take an active role in their communities.

They are a multicultural school with a strong sense of community. At Easter 2005 they moved into the first phase of their new build providing state of the art ICT rooms, English rooms with interactive whiteboards and mathematics' rooms fully networked for ICT. In addition a brand new hall and drama studio was gained.

Phase 2 of the new build will provide new music studios, SEN and student support facilities, art rooms and humanities areas.

The school is fully networked and student laptops are available. As the first school to receive new ICT technologies through Stoke-on-Trent's £180 million Building Schools for the Future Project, they will be provided with nearly a million pounds worth of ICT facilities providing Interactive Whiteboards, more laptops and a Learning Gateway to provide ease of access to resources for parents and students.