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Year 9 and 10’s represented the academy very well on Wednesday 6 December at St Peter’s Collegiate School for the basketball 3v3 competition. Students were Zac Flosa, Kurt Aco, Dylan Gumbo, Jayden McIntosh, Favour Enoghama, Jamal Morris and James Edobor.
Well done, Mr Selvey!
On Wednesday 6 December nineteen year 9 pupils, with Jess Banks and Will Tudor, from year 13, went on a trip to the University of Wolverhampton, Walsall Campus, to see facilities available and broaden their knowledge of the sports industry and higher education courses.
The visit commenced with a tour of the whole campus, looking at the Sports Centre, Gymnasium, Judo Centre (where the British Judo team are based) and the Performance Hub.
Students then moved onto the Sports Science laboratories where Jess and Will were put through their paces in jump, balance and agility tests using the state of the art equipment. This was the most impressive part of the day, where a whole new world of careers and opportunities in sport were highlighted to students.
The day ended with one of the head coaches putting knowledge presented during the day into practice – starting with a few fun games and moving on to how to professionally teach attacking and defending decision making, via handball. Students really tapped into the knowledge of the head coach and improved their skills and decision making vastly in such a short period of time.
It is hoped that students take this knowledge into future lessons and into their examination courses (year 9 into GCSE PE and Jess and Will into higher education). All pupils represented the academy very well and the staff at the University were very complimentary. St Edmund’s were asked to visit again, either with the same group or with other students who need such fantastic experiences.
Globally, the rate of suicide is alarmingly high, particularly in men. Too many men are ‘toughing it out’, keeping their feelings to themselves and struggling in silence. The Movember Foundation is aiming to reduce the rate of male suicide by 25% by 2030.
Mr Tolley, Mr Banks, Mr Lynch, Mr Vazquez and Mr Smith decided to grow facial hair throughout November to generate funds for the Movember Foundation.
Mr Tolley said, “I can say we have been truly overwhelmed by the generosity of staff and even pupils who have joined in and donated and can say, after putting on the cash donations we have received, we will have raised over £1000 for Movember. This is amazing as we started off with a target of just £250 and we have smashed it!
There is still time to contribute. Please use the link https://moteam.co/hu-mo-
Well done guys.
Back row: Mr Banks, Mr Lynch and Mr Smith
Front row: Mr Tolley and Mr Vazquez.
On Wednesday 22nd November, the Year 13 Chemistry class had an amazing experience at the University of Wolverhampton. The activities of the day incorporated many of the skills needed to succeed at A-Level Chemistry.
The first session started with an experiment involving the use of activated carbon to purify water using specialised equipment. In the second practical, we used potatoes to generate electricity to light up LEDs, we then took this further to look at electrochemical cells. It ended with several interesting lectures regarding drug discovery and cancer.
We were impressed by the selection of food provided by the university and thoroughly enjoyed the day!
Well done to Year 9 & 10 girl’s athletics teams who represented St. Edmund’s at the Indoor Athletics Competition. All girls performed exceptionally well and both teams were placed 6th out of 11 schools.
Year 10 team – Emma Espedes, Ruby Cochrane, Sophie Abbott, Shannon Morgan, Shanice McConnel
Year 9 team – Lysia Bayley, Priya Kennedy, Ami Patel, Daisy Streete-Williams , Emily Cox, Isabella Cooper.
On Friday 24 November St Edmund’s took part in the nationwide Unison Stars in Our Schools event to celebrate the wonderful work support staff do every day.
Members of the Senior Leadership Team and Governing Body served tea and cake to support staff to say thank you for all they do in helping St Edmund’s students reach their full potential.
Mrs Hughes, Principal, thanked each and every member for rising to the challenges they face every day and emphasised the vital role they play in education.
Mrs Gallagher, Chair of the Academy Committee, said, “I think the event was very well received and what beautiful cakes! The timing of the support staff “Stars in Our School” was very timely as we’re going to need everyone’s support to ensure the success of Mission Week. I’m sure it will be another great week for everyone”.
Special thanks to members of the Catering Team for helping to organise the event and a massive thank you to Sam Hamilton who made the beautiful cakes.
Left to right: Paula Jones (Catering Supervisor), Sam Hamilton (Baker) and Pam Dhaliwal (Head Chef)
Left to right: Mrs Raj (Business Director), Mrs Hughes (Principal), Mrs Gallagher (Chair of Academy Committee) and Mrs Shorthouse (Member of Academy Committee)
Member of the Support Team enjoying tea and cake.
Sam’s delicious cakes
As I write this notice, we have 3days 12hours, 25mins and 42 seconds left until St Edmund’s Catholic Academy embark on their first ‘Mission Week’. All staff and students will have an opportunity during the week to encounter God in different ways. Our theme for the week is ’Make your Mark’. On the last World youth Day Pope Francis asked us all to get off our sofa’s and ‘Make a Mark’ on the world.
Who has made a Mark on your Life? How can you be more like then?
Some of our students at our Soli retreat wrote our Mission Prayer, please keep us all in your thoughts and prayers over the next week. I am sure this will be an amazing week for all and we will be blessed with the Love and Joy of our Lord
On Friday 10 November 2017 our annual whole school remembrance assembly was held. Mr Lloyd set the tone at the start of the assembly by playing ‘The Last Post’ on his trombone. The theme of this years assembly was ‘Remembering: Then and Now’.
Guided by Mrs Hazeldine and the visual images, the students and staff were very reflective throughout. It was fantastic to see participation from our Year 11 and 13 students who delivered readings, war poetry and a contemporary dance to Flanders Fields.
May I take this further opportunity to pay respect to all of the British Service men, women and their families who sacrifice for our freedom. ‘Lest We Forget’
We are an 11 – 18 Catholic Academy with 876 pupils on role including 137 in the Sixth Form. We are seeking to appoint to St Edmund’s Catholic Academy a number of Exam Invigilators to work under the supervision of the Examinations Officer to ensure the smooth running of both external and internal examinations.
Good numeracy and literacy skills required together with the ability to be flexible and to be able to relate to children and adults.
EXAM INVIGILATORS
Vacancy Ref: ES004
Permanent Casual Contract
Hours: To meet the needs of the Academy during Examination Periods (no guaranteed hours)
Rate of Pay – £8.35ph
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
For more information or for an application pack, please contact Reception, at the company registered office: (c/o: St Edmund’s Catholic Academy; Compton Park, Compton Road West, Wolverhampton, WV3 9DU or call 01902 558888). Application packs can be accessed via our Academy website: www.stedmunds.org
Completed applications can be returned by post to the registered office or via email to recruitment@stedmunds.org
St Edmunds is part of the Bishop Cleary Catholic Multi Academy Company. You can find out more about the Bishop Cleary Catholic Multi Academy Company at: bccmac.co.uk
Closing Date: Tuesday 5th December 2017
Interview Date: Thursday 14th December 2017
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