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Bordesley Centre Bordesley College of Education

tali

tali

master brummie
The Bordesley Centre Stratford Road Camp Hill Birmingham UK B11 1AR - which is now the Muath Trust- was the centre originally a school/college/community centre?.One of those buildings that i never saw anyone entering or leaving! Was this also previously Holy Trinity School? (Holy Trinity Church nearby)
Puzzled as to why it was called Bordesley Centre as it was in Sparkbrook.
 
I agree the school on the traffic island at Camp Hill opposite The Ship PH was King Edwards Grammar School. I always thought it was a girls school, though I was obviously wrong.

Phil
 
Thanks when did King Edwards Grammar School close and become the Bordesley Centre ?
 
Hello,

The Holy Trinity School was in Trinity Terrace. That was on the left hand side of the Church as you look down from Camp Hill toward Sandy Lane. At the bottom of Trinity Terrace you used to be able to turn left in to Bedford Avenue. I went to that school for a short while in 1953.
 
Hi

After King Edwards grammar school closed the Bordesely Centre site became Bordesley College of Education, a Local Education Authority Day Training College for women teachers.

It opened in 1963 and specialised in training Nursery and Primary teachers.The principal was a Mrs Roe. The majority of its students were 'mature'students being trained in response to the ban on unqualified teachers in early 60s

Both my mother and I were trained there.........mum between 1965/68 and myself between 1971/74.

The College became part of Birmingham Polytechnic in 1975. The Westbourne Rd. Campus accommodated staff from the Bordesley site when it closed for teacher training.

Hope this fills in a gap in the site's history.
 
In the 50s the site was split between two schools, one half, which i attended, was owned by Waverley Grammar School and housed their pupils up to year three when they moved on to the main school in Waverley Road. the other half was indeed a girls school, I can't remember the name of the school but I can remember the names of some of the girls.!!
 
jerry said:
In the 50s the site was split between two schools, one half, which i attended, was owned by Waverley Grammar School and housed their pupils up to year three when they moved on to the main school in Waverley Road. the other half was indeed a girls school, I can't remember the name of the school but I can remember the names of some of the girls.!!
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King Edward V1 Grammar Schools Camp Hill (separate Boys' and Girls' schools) were on the site until the end of summer term 1956, when the
Boys' school moved to new premises in Vicarage Road Kings Heath. This
was situated on Major Cartland's old estate. I was a pupil at both the old and new schools, and I believe the Girls' school did not move at this time as their section of the new buildings was not complete. I remember that Waverley School took over the Boys' School as an annexe, prior to the whole site becoming the Bordesley Centre, so that the Girls' school you remember would have been K.E.G.S. for Girls. The new King Edward Schools in Kings Heath retained 'Camp Hill' in the school name, and still do.

Dave
 
I trained as a mature teacher at Bordesley from 1974 to 1977 and many of us went on to do well in the profession - a mixture of maturity and the college's reputation I think. I always felt you could go on to do anything within Birmingham's education system at that time.
 
Onceabrummie said:
I trained as a mature teacher at Bordesley from 1974 to 1977 and many of us went on to do well in the profession - a mixture of maturity and the college's reputation I think. I always felt you could go on to do anything within Birmingham's education system at that time.
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My mother-in-law trained as a mature teacher around this time too and also went onto having a successful career in both state and private schools. I believe she attended around this time. Do you remember any of the lecturers? She gained her teaching certificate in Art.
 
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