Queen Elizabeth's Mercian School

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Queen Elizabeth’s Mercian School, A Specialist Music College
Motto	High Expectations, High Standards, High Achievements
Established	c.1577
Type	Community Comprehensive school
Headteacher	Kevin Debney
Chair of Governors	Jerry Hutchinson
Specialisms	Music and IT College
Location	Ashby Road Tamworth Staffordshire B79 8AJ England
LEA	Staffordshire
Ofsted number	124418
Students	c 1100
Gender	Mixed
Ages	11 to 18
Houses	Freville Guy Offa Peel
School colours	Blue and Gold
Publication	QEMS Chronicle
Pupil Notices	Pupil Bulletin
Website	qems.org.uk
Coordinates: 52°38′29″N 1°41′34″W / 52.64132, -1.69266

Queen Elizabeth's Mercian School is an 11-18 comprehensive school to the north of Tamworth, a small market town in Staffordshire in the Midlands near Birmingham. It is also known as Queen Elizabeth's Mercian or QEMS (pronounced "quems"). There are over 1200 pupils on roll with over 120 in years 12 and 13. The schools has been awarded specialist status as a Music and ICT College.^[1]

1 Campus
- 1.1 Departments
- 1.2 Other Notable Areas
2 Extra-Curricular Activities
3 Shutdown
4 Specialist Status
5 News
6 References

[edit] Campus

QEMS is based in several buildings across the school. overall, there are 7 buildings (Main Block (Lower School), DT, RE, Middle Block, Elizabeth Block, Boys' Gym, Girls' Gym) and mostly each department is based in one of the buildings.

[edit] Departments

The school is sub-divided into many departments. These are listed in alphabetical order

Art and Design
Design Technology
English (and Drama)
Geography
History
Information Technology
Langauges
Mathematics
Music
Physical Education
Religious Education and Citizenship
Sciences

Also, at GCSE and A Level:

Business Studies
General Studies

[edit] Other Notable Areas

The library is open virtually everyday for pupils to borrow and return books or to use the computer facilities for School work.

The library is home of chess club (where anyone can play chess) and the currently inactive warhammer club. These are both popular amongst the students, particularly in Key Stage 3

[edit] Extra-Curricular Activities

There also exist many extra curricular activities:

Club	Welcomed	Times	Description
Basketball	?	?	?
Chess	Everyone Welcome	Wednesday 12:20-13:15	Learning, teaching, playing - all for free with expertise
Computer Club for Girls (CC4G)	Year 7 Girls	?	?
Football	?	?	?
Graphics	Year 8	Thursdays, 15:30-16:15	?
Gymnastics	Everyone Welcome	Thursdays, 15:30-16:20	?
Latin	Year 8, Gifted and Talented	Thursdays, 15:30-16:30	Learn Latin
Rugby	?	?	Rugby
Science	?	Thursdays 15:30-16:30	learning has never been so much fun!
Thai Boxing	?	?	Boxing in Thai style
Warhammer	Everyone Welcome	Wednesdays, 15:30-16:30	Inactive due to lack of permenant members

[edit] Shutdown

The school has recently been put forwrad for shutting down, despite the fact that both GCSE and A level results are (according to the Head, at least) improving. This comes ahead of plans for a new sixth form centre and acamdemy. The sixth form centre would be built on the site of QEMS if the plans went ahead. The academy would be replacing another Tamworth school - Woodhouse High School^[2]