National Nursery Practitioners Day took place on Saturday 17th October and was an opportunity for us to thank our Early Years teams in Nursery and Pre-Prep for everything that they do.

Mr. Taylor, an orthopaedic surgeon based at Spire Liverpool, was kind enough to visit our school and deliver a socially distanced lecture entitled, “So you want to be a surgeon?” to the Upper Sixth and to prospective medical applicants in the Lower Sixth.

Congratulations to our recent leavers who are off to study medicine. We are very proud of their achievements and, as is tradition, they have been to School to collect their gift of a personally engraved stethoscope to help them on their way as they begin their courses.

On Friday 18th September Birkenhead School was delighted to welcome Brian Anderson to present 'The Anthropocene Era and Global Commons' as our first Nicholls Lecture of the academic year. The students thoroughly enjoyed the presentation with A level geographers particularly benefitting from the talk.

The new academic year has brought the launch of an updated School uniform, most notably a new range of ties and a bespoke tartan kilt in Year 6 and Seniors. School uniform plays an important role in setting the tone for academic and wider success and students are visible ambassadors for Birkenhead School, both on and off-site.

Congratulations go to our GCSE students who collected their results earlier today.We are proud of each and every one of our students, and are delighted that the results reflect the academic strength of the cohort: twenty students out of a cohort of seventy-three achieved grades 7 to 9 in all their exams, a reflection of their attitude to learning, and the diligence and commitment of both them and their teachers over the last two years. 

On Thursday we celebrated our Sixth Form students receiving their A Level results. We are delighted with their efforts and exceptional resilience during these extraordinary times. We are extremely proud of the results they have achieved, and how they will be entering courses as diverse as Law, Filmmaking, Physiotherapy and Civil Engineering, at universities such as Bath, Bristol, Oxford and Warwick.

Birkenhead School entered the Economic Horizons – Treasury Competition and came 2nd in the North West. Their remit was to work remotely in a team and put together a recorded presentation of the state of the UK economy, and policies to improve its fortunes in the coming years. These were then judged by members of the government’s Treasury Department.