News and Information

Effective immediately, detentions will be scheduled for the next day. This adjustment ensures that parents/carers can make appropriate arrangements for their child’s safe journey home, particularly as evenings become darker earlier. We kindly ask all parents, carers, and students to regularly check ClassCharts for detention notifications and to ensure attendance on the assigned day to avoid escalation. (Read more…)

I am pleased to inform you that we are seeking to appoint a Parent Governor to join our Local Governing Body (LGB) where we have one vacancy. This is an exciting opportunity for a parent or carer to contribute to the life and strategic direction of Q3 Academy Great Barr and to make a difference to all students within our community.(Read more…)

Please see this letter from West Midlands Police ahead of the October half-term.

There is also this additional guide regarding Fireworks and Halloween.

As you will have seen in our newsletter and elsewhere, we have been excited to launch our new CARE Values this year. Making this commitment has been an ideal opportunity to reflect on some of our ways working to make them even better.

One such area is Rewards, where we want to be even more ambitious. (Read more…)

We are delighted to warmly welcome our new Year 7 and GB6th students to the Q3 Academy Great Barr community this week in addition to welcoming back returning students. Students are looking commendably smart in our refreshed uniform, and we encourage them to maintain this excellence in appearance. As a reminder, jewellery including piercings (other than one plain stud in the earlobe) is not permitted, and will be confiscated. We know that better attendance means better attainment, so we ask parents/carers to support their child in attending every day and ensuring that they are punctual; students must be on site no later than 8:45am each day.(Read more…)

Following the consultation of Business Dress with students, staff, and the parents/carers who kindly fed back to us regarding Business Dress, we can confirm that from September 2025, blazers are no longer to be worn. Jumpers will replace blazers as our Business Dress along with a new style of tie and skirt option. We are currently working with our suppliers to prepare for these changes in a hope that the new items will go on sale in their stores soon. Trousers and shirts/blouses will remain unaffected by the change. (Read more…)

We all know that good attendance to the Academy is vital to a child’s academic success. Therefore, to support with our attendance monitoring we are moving to a new system called ‘A Star Attendance’. There is no change in how you report your child’s absence to the Academy (by calling us on 0121 358 6186 and selecting option 1 or emailing us here). However, you may now receive attendance updates or communication by email, so we’d ask that you ensure the email address noreply@astarattendance.com is added to your safe sender list to avoid it ending up in your junk mail folder. (Read more…)

We are super excited for the exciting opportunities in store for our annual Rewards Days for students in Years 7-10 & 12!

The deadline for Rewards Days choices has now passed, we cannot accept any further changes. All payable trips have been added to ParentPay accounts, and payment is required by Monday 30th June. 
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