Birmingham Ormiston Academy is an independent state-funded 14-19 academy specialising in Creative, Digital and Performing Arts. BOA is sponsored by Ormiston Trust and Birmingham City University. The academy opened in September 2011 in a brand-new landmark building, located at the hub of the digital and creative industries in the West Midlands. It has superb facilities for academic, vocational and extra-curricular activities.
BOA is one hundred percent selective based on aptitude within the specialisms and is unique in both its admissions and approach to education. The academy aims to be at the forefront of the development of the arts and creative industries.
Outstanding teaching coupled with constant support and guidance underpins the students' personalised learning experiences. The curriculum is designed to develop the specific identified talents, gifts and potential of each student. Performance, production, creativity and excellence will be at the centre of their experiences.
Working in partnership with industry, our programmes of study are delivered by both excellent teachers and skilled professionals. Teaching is of the highest quality and students are able to apply their learning to the world of work.
Encompassing a full range of vocational, traditional and enrichment courses, our students have the opportunity to individualise their learning pathways. Gaining qualifications accepted by universities or career specific courses related to areas within the creative industry sector. Together with our founding partners, Maverick TV and the BRIT School, we have numerous creative, business and industry partners. They offer high levels of support, investment, expertise and opportunities for both students and the academy.
Although located in the heart of Birmingham, BOA is a regional academy admitting students from Birmingham and the Local Authorities of Coventry, Dudley, Solihull, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton. Ten percent of students are also admitted from the wider West Midlands.
Birmingham Ormiston Academy is committed to providing high quality and distinctive education through a specialist curriculum delivered in outstanding facilities. The academy seeks to attract students from across a range of backgrounds and academic abilities who are able to demonstrate aptitude in the creative, digital and performing arts.
Specialising in the arts, we will provide a dynamic and personalised learning pathway for each individual. It is our philosophy to unlock each student’s potential. Through our teaching, partnerships, industry links, pastoral care and monitoring we aim to foster ambition and a culture of high expectations and standards.
Staff, partners and students operate in an atmosphere which promotes excellence, celebrates success and encourages opportunities for risk taking through which real learning can take place. Students will not only achieve their personal best but exceed all expectations.
As a regional academy of excellence for the teaching of creative, digital and performing arts, BOA combines the academic and vocational to provide unrivalled opportunities for its students to work alongside industry professionals.
Located at the hub of the creative and digital industries and adjacent to Birmingham City University’s city centre campus, the academy is able to draw on the experience of our education and industry partners. BOA has already developed a range of joint projects and programmes of study with the industries in which students would be likely to find work.
All students will be encouraged to work diligently, develop independence, self confidence, respect and awareness of others. Students have a purpose-built, fully supervised learning resource centre together with numerous networked and wireless break-out areas to give them effective private study time.
Students will be offered work experience. Placements will be arranged to complement areas related to the chosen pathway. As many of our courses are career specific, meaning the course relates to a specific area of employment or industry within the arts, much of the study is a combination of learning and doing through skills, focused work-related projects or work experience.
In all aspects of the student experience at BOA we promote the core British Values as defined by Ofsted:
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