King Edward VI Handsworth Wood Girls' Academy
Academy converter secondary school in Birmingham (Birmingham).
Location
iSchool location from Get Information about Schools. Nearby schools are coloured by phase. Open Map+ for a full-screen map with neighbourhood deprivation (England only).About
Welcome to ensure that our parents/ carers and students can access all of the information they need within our online platforms we use a number of accessibility tools both in and out of the classroom. These include the full range of Microsofts Accessibility suite, including Read Aloud, Immersive Reader, Dictation and through Google we use Translate.
To extend this to our external communications we have introduced translation services to our website and our parent app (KEVI Handsworth Wood Girls). To use these options please follow the guides below:
In the school’s own words, from the school website.
Enrichment
18 activitiesiFound on the school website by WhatSchool. Not verified by Governance Register; the school website is the authority.- Book Club
- Chess
- Choir
- Coding
- Cooking
- Creative Writing
- Cricket
- Dance
- Debating
- Drama
- Duke of Edinburgh
- Film Club
- Football
- Mindfulness
- Photography
- Stem
and 2 more
Awards
1 awardiFound on the school website by WhatSchool. Not verified by Governance Register; the school website is the authority.- Duke of EdinburghPersonal development
Key facts
- URN
- 138937
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Gender
- Girls
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Perry Barr
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 2012
Governing body (8 current, 4 former)
iAcademy trust: local governing body and trust board.1 governor is linked to a profile (all confirmed).
Governors marked “Confirmed same person” have exactly the same forename and surname as the only officer of that name at the school’s own academy trust company on the Companies House register, so we treat them as the same person. The governance record itself comes from DfE.
Leadership
| Name | Role | How appointed | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fazle Kinkhabwala Confirmed same person | Chair of Local Governing Body | Appointed by GB/board | since 2025 · until 2029 |
Full governing body
| Name | Role | How appointed | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rachel Pinnock | Local Governor | Appointed by foundation/Trust | since 2026 · until 2030 |
| Pariss Sailsman | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2026 · until 2030 |
| Burhan Miah | Local Governor | Appointed by foundation/Trust | since 2026 · until 2030 |
| Max Plackowski | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2025 · until 2029 |
| Victor Agbontean | Local Governor | Appointed by foundation/Trust | since 2024 · until 2028 |
| Mr Michael Ewins | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2015 · until 2030 |
| Ms Beverly Lindsay | Local Governor | Appointed by foundation/Trust | since 2012 · until 2028 |
| Dean Hill Former | Local Governor | Appointed by foundation/Trust | since 2026 · term ended 2026 |
| Ms Bal Kharod Former | Local Governor | Appointed by foundation/Trust | since 2025 · term ended 2026 |
| Miss Zoe Richardson Former | Local Governor | Elected by school staff | since 2022 · term ended 2026 |
| Miss Emma Jones Former | Local Governor | Elected by school staff | since 2022 · term ended 2026 |
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools (governance records, as at 25 October 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Names are shown as published; there are no addresses or contact details. Current and former are worked out from term end dates when the page loads. Object or ask for removal · Report an issue with this record