Around the Area
Holy Trinity International School and Wyre Forest
HTIS lies a few minutes from the town centre of Kidderminster and the town’s inner ring road, making it highly accessible for potential families and commuters to Birmingham.
Located directly on the Birmingham Road, the school offers a year round service, from Nursery up to its coeducational Sixth Form, to the great benefit of all our families and students.
For prospective families moving into the area, Kidderminster itself lies in the district of Wyre Forest and is surrounded by beautiful countryside which houses many peaceful and secluded villages and prime vast areas of agricultural land. It also benefits from the famous Severn Valley Railway, Britain’s premier steam line travelling from Kidderminster in Worcestershire, through to Bridgnorth in Shropshire in the north, areas that both offer numerous opportunities for rambling, horse riding, canoeing and other activities.
Rambling along local paths, the Worcestershire or Monarch’s Way, allows for direct contact with nature; from Pheasants to Sparrow Hawks, Badgers, Fox, Deer and a variety of rare woodland plants that face local extinction elsewhere.
Kidderminster is the birthplace of Sir Rowland Hill, founder of the Penny Post with statues and buildings in the town centre commemorating this and Kidderminster is also known and famous around the world for its carpet industry, which began in the early eighteenth century as a cottage industry. Several mills still remain today as architectural monuments to the industrial, economic and cultural heritage, either as working mills or cleverly renovated into new shopping or wholesale areas.
The town has excellent shopping areas both in the old town centre and on its newer retail parks. A wealth of sporting pursuits include the Conference League Kidderminster Harriers Football Team to local hockey, tennis, rugby, golf, cricket, athletics, swimming, and gymnastics clubs. For the professional game, Kidderminster’s cricket ground is home to several Worcestershire matches and we are in easy travelling distance to Worcester Warriors Rugby team, and the professional football clubs of Birmingham and surrounding areas.
HTIS works closely with a number of other local schools and sporting venues, many offering a variety of other leisure and sporting activities, such as with the Wyre Forest Glades Leisure Centre, which also hosts national and international events.
The school benefits from its close location with cultural centres like Droitwich Spa, known for its Roman brine baths and springs, West Midlands Safari and Leisure Park, Warwick and Ludlow castles, the home of Shakespeare Stratford upon Avon and the industrial archaeology centres of the Black Country Museum, Bewdley Museum, located in the centre of Bewdley which is a delightful Georgian town set on the River Severn, and to the north the Iron Bridge Gorge, Telford.
Located close to the M5, M6, M40 and M42 motorway networks, HTIS is easily accessible by air from Birmingham, Gatwick and Heathrow airports, Exhibition and cultural facilities such as the NEC, Birmingham Symphony Hall and many stately homes, with Wales a stone’s throw away.
Having access to the M40, HTIS is located close to one of Europe’s largest undercover shopping areas known as Merry Hill, which is approximately 14 kms away and contains top-end high street retail branches, a multi screen cinema and restaurants, with Oxford within easy travelling distance, as is London, Bath, Bristol and the rest of the south east and west.