top ten things that you didn't know about Ninestiles

1. Ninestiles was formed when three schools were forced to merge after a huge fire.

2. The first headteacher had a cat that he carried around the school in a small bag.

3. If all of the staff and students were on the top floor at the same time, the building would collapse.

4. The school song hasn't been sung since 1986 because it has a line in the third verse that says 'Wales is the greatest of all the nations'.

5. If all of the room numbers are added together, the total is 1311. Coincidentally, this is the last 4 numbers of the school phone number.

6. The school was originally built after Birmingham City Council was bequeathed a sum of money by a businessman from Acocks Green who had made his fortune selling spoons.

7. The deeds for the school state that there is to be a place of education on this site where children shall study Arithmetic, the English language, Latin, Chemistry, Maps and Games.

8. A wall used to divide the playground so that there was a boys' side and a girls' side - teachers used to walk alongside it at playtime so that girls and boys did not hold hands over the wall.

9. For the first five years of the school's history, none of the windows had any glass.

10. The metal hump in one of the ground floor science rooms covers the grave of one of the first caretakers.