, 1984. In 1974, after two years of uncertainty, Moseley Grammar School and Moseley Modern School were amalgamated into a single school. This change was controversial but supported by many (among the latter, Mr Gaskin, who after his retirement remained active on the new school's Board of Governors until the 1980s). The combined establishment, known simply as Moseley School, became one of the largest comprehensives in Birmingham. Initially at least, it inherited the good reputations of its predecessors in their respective fields. Moseley Grammar School had been without a head since 1972, and Donald Wilford, headmaster of Moseley Modern School since 1967, applied for the appointment as head of the combined school. In the event, the job went to an outsider, Alan Goodfellow, who was on record as being bitterly critical of
comprehensive education. He was also plagued by ill-health and died in office in 1981, after which a number of institutions that had survived the amalgamation, such as a school
house system, were allowed to lapse. David Swinfen was appointed as head the following year. His ambitious plans, however, were overwhelmed by events, when the former Moseley Grammar School, known since the amalgamation as the West Wing, began falling apart as a result of decades of neglect and under-funding. In 1986 the roof of the old library was declared unsafe halfway through an exam, and the entire building was closed and subsequently earmarked for demolition – the latter prevented only by Mr Swinfen's speedily organised campaign and the resultant public outcry. By the end of his tenure in 1992, the school had undergone a radical change of character, following the redrawing of its catchment area in 1987/88. Hitherto, Moseley School had taken a majority of its pupils from the (then) largely white area of
Hall Green, but now it took them from the mainly Asian area of
Sparkhill.
Cricket has always been a popular sport at Moseley School, and the school field often doubled up as a cricket pitch. Since 1994 it has been the permanent home of the Birmingham-based
Attock Cricket Club, which has invested money in improving facilities, including the rebuilding and expansion of the pavilion in 1998. The campaign for the restoration of the West Wing continued for many years. In 1995 Mrs Mary Miles, head teacher from 1992 to 2001, authorised the formation of the Moseleians Association, for former students and staff of Moseley School and its various predecessor institutions. It publishes the twice-yearly
Moseleian Gazette, and organises regular reunions and many other events. Continuing the work of the Old Moseleians Association – founded by Major Robinson in 1927, but with which the school had severed links in 1968 – the Moseleians Association has assumed an increasingly important role in school life. It sponsors competitions and prizes for pupils, raises funds for restoration work, plants trees on the school grounds, and has taken over the administration of the school archives. After being closed and shored up with scaffolding for more than a decade, in 1998 – with financial assistance from the
Heritage Lottery Fund and the
European Regional Development Fund – the West Wing was completely refurbished, and re-opened as the new home of the school
sixth form. To coincide with its re-opening, the three daughters of Mr Gaskin published
Moseley into the Millennium: The Story of Moseley School, detailing and celebrating the history of the school.
Rebuilding Following the resignation of David Peck, head teacher from 2001 to 2008, Tim Boyes, head of nearby
Queensbridge School, was brought in as an interim replacement. He, and the City Council, advocated the creation of a combined Trust to administer both schools, which would share facilities and have a merged sixth form, based at Moseley School. This plan, however, was scrapped in 2011 when Mr Boyes failed to secure the job of head teacher on a permanent basis. As part of the government's 'Building Schools for the Future' (BSF) strategy, in 2009 Moseley School received approval for a massive new rebuilding programme, involving the complete demolition of the East Wing (the former Moseley Modern School, now in a bad state of repair), with the exception of its more recently built sporting facilities, later to be significantly upgraded. A new building would be constructed straddling the boundary between the West Wing and East Wing sites, despite the steep incline from the latter to the former. The West Wing would also have a number of alterations carried out to increase its capacity. These plans survived the
Coalition Government's cuts almost completely intact. Work began in summer 2011 and was completed by October 2012. The East Wing was demolished in February 2013 and the new building, which had already been in use for some months, was officially opened by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Councillor Mike Leddy, on 30 June 2013. The school invested in excess of £1.5 million into
ICT facilities to transform learning and teaching, with larger than average classrooms to provide students with a flexible learning environment. The West Wing was renamed Building A and the new building, most of which is also on the old West Wing site, became known as Building B. Craig Jansen, head teacher from 2011 to 2015, introduced eight new school houses to Moseley School, which had been without a house system since 1982. Named after Oxford colleges, these were Mansfield, Nuffield, Keble, Pembroke, Hertford, Worcester, Lincoln and Exeter. The last two were removed in 2015 by Roger McBrien, head teacher until 2019, reducing the number to six. ==Evolution of school badges==