Brownhills Ormiston Academy

❤️ THE ARMED MAN AT LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL - AN OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE FROM TEAM BROWNHILLS AND A GROUP OF EXCEPTIONAL MUSICIANS

💙 We are bursting with pride. Our young musicians performed beautifully last night in an extraordinary concert at Lichfield Cathedral. They performed with musicians from The Arts Centre Telford and Jackfield Band in a 117-piece ensemble, including a performance of The Armed Man, by Karl Jenkins; a challenging and exhilarating choral work.

❤️ They sounded beautiful, performed with maturity, confidence and class and represented our school and town perfectly. The music they performed was exceptionally challenging and after months of work, they sang complex music in English, Latin, French and even a fictional language, in 4 parts (sometimes splitting into 6 parts!)

💙 We also want to give a massive shoutout to our fantastic brass teacher, Mr C Stevens, who led Jackfield Band and conducted The Armed Man brilliantly. We are so lucky to have such a talented team of peripatetic teachers from Walsall Music Education Service who are all genuinely excellent musicians. Thank you so much, Mr Stevens for everything you do for our community and leading us last night.

❤️ Finally, we were delighted to have seen so many family members, friends, members of staff, former staff, local teachers, governors, our local MP Wendy Morton MP and so many other from our community. Thank you for sharing a really special evening with us.

💙 Please enjoy some photos from the event - videos to come soon!

We are performing here tonight! We are very excited for our collaborative concert with Jackfield Band and The Arts Centre Telford. We will each be performing our own repertoire and then in Act II, we will join forces to perform Karl Jenkins' 'The Armed Man'.

We'd love to see you this evening. Our concert starts at 7:30pm. Tickets are still available online: www.ticketsource.com/brownhills-ormiston-academy

🏆 YEAR 8 STUDENTS EXCEL AT WALSALL SCHOOLS ATHLETICS COMPETITION!

🏃‍♀️ It was the turn of the Year 8 Athletics team to travel to Walsall Academy for the Walsall schools track and field athletics competition.

👏 Across the team, they competed in field events including long jump, high jump, shot put and javelin and track events including 100m, 200m, 300m, 400m, 800m and a team relay.

🤩 As we’ve seen so far at this competition with other year groups, the year 8 team did not disappoint demonstrating incredible sportsmanship, determination to succeed and willingness to represent the academy with pride.

🏆 Well done to all students involved, especially:
🥇Millie - 1st place in the shot put
🥈Lauren - 2nd place in the 100m
🥈Tommy - 2nd place in the 400m
🥉Bobbi - 3rd place in the 100m
🥉Bobby - 3rd place in the 300m
🥉Amelia - 3rd place in the long jump

🏆However, the outstanding performance of the night was in the 4x100m team relay with the girls team achieving 1st place. Well done to Lauren, Bobbi, Amelia and Millie.

🌟 HEADTEACHER'S NEWSLETTER - EDITION 13 - MAKING THE FINAL HALF TERM COUNT

🌟 Please enjoy this's week edition of Mr Doodson's newsletter reflecting on a brilliant Summer 1 at Brownhills and looking ahead to what is in store for our final half term of this academic year.