Excellence in the Community Project

Adult Learning Centres/Extended Schools

The Excellence in the Community Project is a £1.6m project, part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund, Regeneration Zone, Advantage West Midlands, Solihull Council and Solihull College. The centres are based at 2 secondary, 10 primary schools and 2 Neighbourhood Nurseries in the north of the Borough. They are easily accessible, small and friendly, and open to members of the local community not in full-time education. Solihull College provide the many varied courses on offer at the centres, both accredited and non accredited.

• Return to learn
  • New Skills
  • Improve Old Skills
  • Meet people and have fun
  • Improve your Career Pathway

• Our Centres Offer
  • A warm and friendly welcome
  • High quality teaching
  • A wide choice of courses
  • Learning support , advice and guidance
  • Qualifications
  • Easily accessible
  • All centres are DDA compliant

Some of the courses available are:

Computing - all levels; Literacy and Numeracy; Classroom and Teaching Assistants; Floristry; Creative crafts; Working with Children; GSCE English; Holistic Therapies; Nail Art; Returning to Work; Digital Photography

And, if you need childcare for the under 5s, the centres have access to high quality facilities which may be free subject to qualifying criteria.

As a consequence of regenerating the schools in the North, all Excellence in the Community Centres will be encompassed within the new rebuilding programme over the next 7 years.

The project also links into the Solihull Council's Lifelong Learning and Extended Schools Agenda, establishment of Children's Centres and Neighbourhood Nurseries, providing lots of opportunities for the local community to improve old skills and learn new ones.

To see all the courses available please visit the Solihull College website at www.solihull.ac.uk/

Solihull College community education courses commencing Sept. 2009-2010

Learning Centres

Each link takes you to a location map.

• Alcott Hall School, Lime Grove, Chelmsley Wood, B37 7PY
• Archbishop Grimshaw School, Kew Close, Cooks Lane, Chelmsley Wood, B37 6NY
• Bennett's Well School, Woodclose Road, Chelmsley Wood, B37 5AB
• Bishop Wilson School, Pike Drive, Chelmsley Wood, B37 7US
• Bosworth Wood Neighbourhood Nursery (Bosworth Wood School), Auckland Drive, Chelmsley Wood, B36 0DD
• Coleshill Heath School, Marlene Croft, Chelmsley Wood, B37 7JT
• Hatchford School, Yorklea Croft, Chelmsley Wood, B37 5EG
• Kingfisher School, Kingfisher Drive, Smith's Wood, B36 0SZ
• Kingshurst School, School Close, Kingshurst, B37 6BN
• St John the Baptist School, Arran Way, Smith's Wood, B36 0QE
• Smith's Wood School, Windward Way, Smith's Wood, B36 0UE
• Whitesmore Neighbourhood Nursery (Wise Owls), Chapelhouse Road, Chelmsley Wood, B37 5JS
• Windy Arbor School, Woodlands Way, Chelmsley Wood, B37 6RN
• Yorkswood School, Kingshurst Way, Kingshurst, B37 6DF

Contact Details

For further information telephone Solihull Council on 0121 704 6253 or Solihull College Community Education on 0121 788 8398/0319.