This web site has been written to support the Longbridge/Northfield Consortium of Schools based in the South of Birmingham. All the schools involved in the Consortium can be seen on our Consortium Schools page.

It forms part of our drive to remove ‘barriers to learning’ under the Excellence in Cities (EiC) initiative.

Each consortium of schools within Birmingham has access to a small amount of funding through EiC with specific guidelines for valid expenditure. We, in Longbridge/Northfield chose to develop Information Communication Technology within several strands. These included the provision of laptops and data projectors for each participating school along with interactive whiteboards thus enabling ICT to be used in classrooms supporting various curriculum subjects.

The sharing of expertise through consortium training has also been a feature of our annual conferences.

This web site forms the third strand and has been developed to share good practice, ideas, and useful curriculum resources between our schools. Contributions from nursery, infant, junior and special school sectors are included, supporting up to the end of National Curriculum Key Stage 2.

The demands of the curriculum are common to us all and if we can support each other by making resources available across schools the curriculum will be enhanced for us all. The core group of practitioners listed on the contact us page have worked hard to make this dream a reality, coordinating and reviewing much of the content of the site.

Please do let us have your comments, thoughts and contributions so that we can add to our ever-increasing library of resources for the benefit of us all.

Graham Catt
Headteacher
Rednal Hill Junior School / EiC Representative