The school is very commited to the training and education of teachers. We have close links with Birmingham University, Wolverhampton and UCE. Training for teachers is supported in Modern Languages, Science, Religious education, Physical education, Geography, History and Technology.
The school is about to start the IIP route to support staff development.
Moseley school is an organisation with a clearly defined management structure and procedures which enable planning monitoring and evaluation to deliver Quality Education. The school has an ethos and style which encourages open lines of communication for all the stakeholders and by gathering both qualitative and quantitative information the school is able to address the needs of the individual maximising their potential.
Central to the schools continued success is the philosophy of investing in people through the process of training and professional development for both teaching and non-teaching staff.
Our application demonstrates the organisations commitment to equal entitlement and the valuing of the entrepreneurial skills of both our students and the community.
The application identifies past successes, ongoing initiatives and a direction and vision for the future. Alongside our determination to raise standards of achievement we have gained recognition for excellence in a number of areas with such awards as:-
Schools Challenge 1990
Nike Award
Schools Curriculum Award 1992
Paul Hamlyn Library Award
The Gatsby Technology Enhancement Project
The Royal Mail Environment School of The Year Award
The school has been awarded £2.5 million for a new Health and Fitness Centre to be completed by mid 1998.
The school has also been awarded a total of £3.75 million for development of the school's historic West Wing into a Community College facility with I.T. facilities of the highest order.
A garden project developed with students and artist in residence.
The tree of Life, an exciting three dimensional project again students and asrtist in residence.
As part of the Laser Partnership 'Horizons' project the school has created a Tree of Life Project. This has involved the creation of a garden in the barn area of the school in conjunction with supporting written and performance projects.
The Tree of Life itself has been created in wood and ceramic with the support of artist Krishna Alasgawaran and will remain as a permanent record of the project.
Polish artist Eljbirta Bullen has worked with pupils on creating cultural symbols for leaf and tile designs around the tree.
All staff, pupils and artists have worked with great enthusiasm on the project. Pupil Mirsad Solacovic expressed the feelings of all pupils: "Knowing that my work was going to be put up for everyone to see made me feel like a true artist."
The school has also created environmental areas on the borders of East playground and has worked with an artist in residence to create the salmon sculptured wooden wall and the adjacent time capsule. All the preparatory designs were worked on in school.
Sixth Form students are exchanging information about themselves, their school and the local area with students from France, Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland as part of an exiting new European initiative.
Students communicate with each other using the school's E-mail facilities and already one student is in frequent contact with a school in Denmark
Moseley School has beed presented with an Education Extra Distinction Award. This award acknowledges at a national level the hard work that staff and pupils at Moseley School put into extra curricular activities at lunchtimes and after school.
"We hope that the public recognition given through this award will help to bring your experience in putting on a range of activities, in organising and developing new options, in bringing in parents and other adult volunteers, in building up links with the local community, to the attention of many other schools, local and national agencies and the educational world in general.
We continue to be inspired by the efforts of everyone involved, which bring 'value added' to your pupils, your school and the whole community."