Bristnall Hall Technology College

Bristnall Hall Lane,
Oldbury,
West Midlands,
B68 9PA.

Telephone: +44 0121 552 5425
Fax: +44 0121 511 1325

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Celebrating Success

We have more reasons to celebrate here at Bristnall Hall after we were named the most improved school in the Black Country.   Our latest exam results showed that 73% of our students achieved five or more A* - C grades at GCSE (43% of these including English and Maths). This is a 19% increase over the previous year in the 5A* - CEM figure.
 
Well done to all of our students and staff for all their hard work in achieving these grades. Let us hope that we can build on this achievement to secure even better results year on year.
 
As well as our exam success, we would like to congratulate two former students on their further achievements.
 
Gurbinder Manku won the Black Country Star Pupil Award for 2009 for her outstanding exam results and accomplishments. In year 11, Gurbinder was Head Girl and represented pupils in school and during meetings with the community. As well as this responsibility, she was also peer mentor, a role that involved supporting younger students.
 
Gurbinder is now a student at King Edward VI College in Stourbridge after achieving an impressive 9 A* / A GCSE grades and is hoping to have a future career in Law or Optometry. 
 
Thomas Kidney achieved exceptional results during his time at Bristnall Hall with 10 A* / A grades at GCSE. He then continued to King Edward VI College to study his A Levels and has gained a place at Oxford University where he is currently studying History and Politics.
 
We wish them both continued success.
 
Other achievements include one of our current students, Jordon Lee. Jordon has been learning coaching skills at the Meadows Sports College in Oldbury which specialises in teaching young people (11 – 19) with complex and profound disabilities. He has become an asset to the Meadows staff during his time assisting them.
 
Our final success story is that of Wolverhampton University student Sadia Shariff. Sadia, who is currently studying Mathematical Sciences, has been helping students at Bristnall Hall with their Maths as part of a scheme run by The Black Country Challenge in association with the DCSF’s City Challenge project. Assisting Safia Ali, the Area Leader of Mathematics, Sadia has helped to raise student confidence in the subject whilst at the same time set realistic challenges for those students pushing ahead.
 
As a result of her experience with us, Sadia has enrolled as a GTP student and begins her teaching career with us in September.
 
We wish her well.


 
Maths Exam Success

Here at Bristnall Hall Technology College we are always proud to recognise our student's achievements, especially during exam periods. Recently students in years 9, 10 and 11 sat their Maths module exams with many of them achieving grade A*-C.
 
Well done to all our students.
 
 
 

 
The Black Country Challenge web portal contains links to over 1500 Key Stage 4 revision documents to help students revise for their exams. Year 10 and 11 students should find the site very useful.

This resource is available at http://www.theblackcountrychallenge.co.uk/theportal.php

 
Dear Parent/Carers

Had a new phone? Changed your number?

If this sounds like you, can you let the college office know your new number as soon as possible.
 
Year 9 Enterprise Challenge Update
Students present charity fundraising cheque to Dian Watt - Founder of the Maria Watt Birmingham Foundation For Childhood & Teenage Leukaemia
Earlier this year, Design and Technology students raised money for charity by selling a range of products that they had produced. These included cakes, cards, picture frames and mobile phone holders.

Recently the proceeds were presented to Diane Watt – Founder of The Maria Watt Birmingham Foundation for Childhood & Teenage Leukaemia. Together the students raised a total of £266.70.
 

Well done to the year 9 students that participated in the event,
and thanks to everyone who donated.
Diane Watt set up the charity after losing her daughter maria to leukaemia when she was just 17. 

Leukaemia is the second biggest killer of children and teenagers and the incidence of it is increasing.

The aim of the Maria Watt Birmingham foundation is to fund the development of one room in a specialist unit at a cost of £100K.

Each unit costs £2M. There are currently eight units throughout the UK and it is estimated that a further 15 need to be built to ensure that every teenager with cancer has access to one of these facilities.
 
 
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