Dyffryn is also one of the only schools in the country borough to run a school Interact Club.

The Black Country boroughs form part of the Birmingham metropolitan economy, the second largest in the United Kingdom.

Historically the area was not part of the Leeds Country Borough but part of the Tadcaster Rural District, both of which at the time were in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Black Country Youth Games 30th June 2001 Wildcats squad are prominent in the middle front of all the participants from the four Black Country Borough's of Wolverhampton, Sandwell, Dudley and Walsall.

Our aim is to provide strategies across the four Black Country boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton to provide a seamless progression, with a menu of options for all young people who need additional support to help them to achieve.

We are working with Link Projects from the other Black Country Boroughs and Black Country Churches Engaged to form a Partnership which should streamline funding for 2003 onwards after the grant agreement with SRB5 expires.

For decades, Sandwell - one of the four Black Country boroughs in the West Midlands - has languished in the cultural back of beyond, somewhere north of the Thames and south of Manchester, generally lumped in with Birmingham but distinctly another place.