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£37,800 grant to promote STEM subjects at Studley High School

Redditch Editorial 19th Dec, 2017 Updated: 19th Dec, 2017   0

STUDLEY High School has been awarded a grant of £37,800 to help students improve their knowledge in the STEM subjects – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

The cash, from Warwickshire County Council’s Skills for Employment programme aims to improve the match between the STEM skills of pupils and the demands of local companies like GKN, Ricor amd local haulage form Allelys.

Across the region, engineering firms of all sizes are struggling to fill engineering and programming roles with not enough youngsters choosing these subjects at school.

The County Council decided to tackle the issue with its Skills Challenge grants worth between £20,000 and £40,000 available to projects which address a specific skills need.




This project, which runs until August 2018, will cater for pupils of all ages and abilities at the school, and will work with a ‘community’ of local businesses of different sizes, addressing a range of skills needs. Some of the elements of the project include:

Computer programming training will be provided to pupils by engineering solution company, Visual Factory.


Ricor, GKN and Allelys Haulage and others will continue to engage with the school through projects such as the design and development of cars or the design and build of Go Karts.

Meanwhile young people aged 10-16 will experience practical applications of STEM knowledge and skills through school and industry based projects such as employability and widening horizons as well as subject based developments linked to technical design, LEGO and robotics.

Workshops and conference style days will assist young people to weigh up decisions around their future career paths.

Headteacher at Studley High School Lee Gray said: “The Skills Challenge grant is helping us maximise the future job opportunities for our students in the thriving engineering and programming sector.

“This project means that local businesses will engage directly with hundreds of students and possible future employees at Studley High School and other local primary schools.

Tailored work experience placements will help develop the right skills and attributes needed to succeed in the local engineering and programming job market.”

Take a look at this short film to hear more from Lee Gray about the Skills Challenge project at Studley High School: https://youtu.be/855gi3uQdrs

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