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SYNTHETIC Garry Watson, head groundsman at King Edward’s School in Birmingham, has chosen the SISIS Brush-Pro ride-on brushing system, for all his synthetic surface maintenance. Situated on a beautiful 50 acre site in Edgbaston Park Road Birmingham, lies two esteemed independent schools – the boys’ school, which was founded by King Edward VI in 1552, and the girls’ school which was established in 1883. The two schools boast extremely high academic standards and are both consistently placed with the leading schools in national league tables. The schools also pride themselves on the wide variety of opportunities
they provide for enrichment outside the curriculum, which includes a number of sports. Facilities for rugby, cricket, football, hockey, tennis and athletics are all included at King Edward’s School and overseeing the maintenance of all of these pitches is Garry along with eight members of staff. Among these facilities are three synthetic surfaces which are solely used for hockey. Two are situated at the girls’ school and quite recently the boys’ school had a sand based pitch constructed. All of these pitches see a tremendous amount of usage with school teams playing on them throughout the day and local }
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