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Walsall Academy

Description: Address: Lichfield Road / Bloxwich / Walsall / West Midlands / England

Newest Review: ... years. Then we would be released back to continue with another three hour lesson during which there would be lunch (although sometimes we went into lunch so late that it was only half an hour before home time when we had finished!). The idea of these three hour lessons was to prevent the feeling of "just getting started" and having to stop. However due to the length of the lessons ... more

... we covered much less due to the feeling of having plenty of time. For us it was difficult to concentrate for that length of time so I dread to think of younger students, although I believe they sometimes had this split up. Another issue was that there w...more

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Walsall Academy: Keeping Up Appearances (2372 words)
by - written on 13/08/09 (Very useful, 159 readings)
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I left my old school half way through sixth form to go to this school, supposedly a super school of the government academy genre. Well I have to say on my visit I was mightily impressed. The large glass entranceway, electronic white boards in every room, TVs that have professional school broadcasts on, suits for the sixth form and architecture that put my old 60s style school to shame. I eagerly awaited my acceptance and was made to feel it was very exclusive due to the limited number of places. Finally I was accepted and I was very excited for my start in September. The aim of the programme was to take a school that was failing and falling apart and turn it into a super ... Read the complete review

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