Jewellery Quarter Academy is active in creating links with a range of external partners. These collaborations are to support student progress and to provide enrichment and opportunity to their lives.
COREUS
COREus is a trust-wide vocal group, bringing together students from all four CORE academies to develop their vocal skills and abilities. Working with professional voice coaches and conductors, the COREUS students, from Year7-10 are taught a range of singing skills and performance techniques, to breathe, warm up and use their body to get the best sound.
For more information about the programme please contact Jemima Waltho, Director for Creative Programmes and Partnerships [email protected]
COMBINED CADET FORCE
The Combined Cadet Force (CCF) is a Ministry of Defence sponsored youth organisation in the United Kingdom. It aims to provide a disciplined organisation in a school so that students aged 12-16 may develop powers of leadership, using training to promote the qualities of responsibility, self-reliance, resourcefulness, endurance, and perseverance.
Students take part in activities such as flying, kayaking, first aid training, aviation studies, and many more.
Further details please contact:
School Staff Instructor – Captain W Barker
0121 729 7220 Ext 1530
[email protected]
DUKE OF EDINBURGH award (DofE)
The DofE Award is widely regarded as being the world’s leading youth achievement award. The award scheme is set up to give young people exciting and character-building opportunities as they develop into adulthood. We have therefore established a focus for our activities on young people from the age of 14. We are currently offering the Bronze Award to our Year 9 and 10 students.
“The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award has helped countless young people on their sometimes-difficult path to adulthood.”HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
For further details please contact:
DofE Manager – Mrs W Barker
0121 729 7220 Ext 1530
[email protected]
Echo Eternal
Echo Eternal is a commemorative arts engagement programme inspired by Holocaust survivor testimony to promote respect and understanding between different communities. Through out the project, students discover more about the remarkable life of Holocaust survivors.
Find out more about Echo Eternal
Pearson Teaching Award
Selected from thousands of nominations, the Echo Eternal Project from CORE Education Trust was named as one of the nation’s most inspirational school partnerships, winning a Pearson National Teaching Gold Award 2020 for Impact Through Partnership for outstanding commitment to changing the lives of young people through the Trust’s work.
Free 2 Dream (F2D)
Free 2 Dream (F2D) is an organization that works with children and young people in the community. They offer workshops focused on entrepreneurship, creativity and mentoring. The aim is to build confidence, resilience and self-belief over the 6 week project.
Other Partnerships include: KPMG, Goldman Sachs, Talk Consent, Envision, RAF, Birmingham Hippodrome (HEN project), MADE Mentors, Every Child Needs a Mentor, Sandwell College, University College of Birmingham (UCB), Walsall College, Joesph Chamberlain College, BMet, Sollihull 6th Form, Holte School, Cadbury College and Central Saint Michaels