St Edmund's Catholic Academy

Compton Park Spine Road – leading up to St Edmund’s Catholic Academy and S Peter’s Collegiate School

ACTION – September, October and November 2015

We received notification in the summer holiday that Compton Park Spine Road would be formally adopted by Wolverhampton City Council.  The City Council has taken advantage of the summer period to carry out essential works to ensure it meets the required standards of an adopted City Council road.  This has involved extensive works that commenced in late July and are likely to be completed in early November 2015.

We are very pleased to see a new cycle path included in the plans for our learners in addition to another pedestrian path.

• We would encourage your son/daughter to come into school on a bike, in order to promote  healthy well-being, on the completion of this path.
• In order for the path to be safe, guard railings will be erected leading up to St Edmund’s main Student Entrance.
• Upgraded crossings are being installed with appropriate raised kerbs.
• There will be parts of the road that will be extended giving greater visibility to ensure both pedestrians, and motorists, use the spine road safely when it is completed.
• Appropriate line markings, including double yellow lines with the necessary enforcements, will be added on completion to ensure this busy site is kept safe.

For the duration of these works please do not drive onto the spine road.  If you are dropping off or collecting a child, or children, please park safely nearby and walk.

National Express West Midlands school buses will be allowed access to the turning circle in order to maintain these services.

St. Edmund’s students have achieved tremendous GCSE results this year with 71% of Year 11 attaining 5 or more GCSEs at grade C or above. 16% of grades were A* and A, and 44% of entries grading A* to B.

Students have done particularly well this year in Art, Biology, Chemistry, Economics, English, Food Technology, German, Graphics, Mathematics, Music, PE, Photography, Physics, RE and Sport where 70%,or more, students achieved a Grade C or better. 100% of students taking Italian, Persian, Polish and Spanish achieved the highest grades.

Congratulations to all students who received their results today.

52% of students achieved between 8 and 11 A* to C grades this year.

“I am delighted to see our young people making such progress and achieving so well across a full range of subjects,” said Principal, Maggie Hughes.

St Edmund’s is very pleased with its A Level Results this year: 100% of students were successful and 20% of the grades achieved were at A*/A.

Well done to all students who received their exam results yesterday.

Congratulations to Aga Wojtusiak (A* A* A A), Tom Corrigan (A* A* A) and Tom Springthorpe (A* A A) at A2 and to Adam Sands and Sledge Brewster on their excellent results at AS and to all of our students who took exams.  We wish them well for the future.

Principal Maggie Hughes said, ‘The most pleasant aspect of this year’s results is the wide range of subject success with a number of the highest achieving students gaining top grades in Mathematics, the Sciences and Humanities’.

Do you want to make a difference?

As a parent of a student at our Academy, we’d like you to become INVOLVED!

Have a say in:-

• Reviewing our Mission
• The Curriculum Plan
• Ensuring a healthy environment for our pupils and students
• Maximising the potential of the site

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Helping to move St Edmund’s forward

AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!

Become a Foundation Representative of our Academy Committee here at St Edmunds’ and join like-minded people who WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE and move forward!

WE CURRENTLY HAVE TWO VACANCIES

Please contact  Mrs Gallagher [email protected] or Mrs Knowles [email protected] 01902 558888 Extension 120 in the first instance.

On Friday 17 July, former student Kristian Thomas unveiled a commemorative plaque dedicating St Edmund’s Catholic Academy’s sports hall in his honour.

Kristian was invited to celebrate the end of term mass, where he also got to watch some stunning performances from our talented gymnasts.

Principal, Mrs Hughes said: “We are very proud of Kristian’s accomplishments as an international gymnast representing England and Great Britain. He is an inspiration to our students and has visited St Edmund’s twice since he became European Champion in March.

Kristian received a wonderful St Edmund’s welcome as he announced the opening of the Kristian Thomas Sports and Fitness Arena.

We follow Kristian’s events with great interest and wish him continuing success in the competition in autumn, prior to Rio 2016.”

• A2, AS and BTEC results will be available for collection for Year 13 pupils from 8am on Thursday 13th August.
• Year 12 students can collect their AS and BTEC results from 10.15am on Thursday 13th August.
•  GCSE & BTEC results will be issued to Year 11 pupils from 9.30am on Thursday 20th August.

Over 500 pupils and many staff members completed an 8 mile walk on 15 July, to raise money for Cancer Research UK.  Raising a total of £1793.50, by simply running and walking to Wombourne and back, along the old railway track.

This is a long standing tradition at St Edmund’s Catholic Academy when the whole school community comes together to help generate funds to support local, national and international charities.

PC Whittaker and WPC Plimmer from Tettenhall Police Station were invited to support the Academy this year.

Following the walk PC Whittaker said;

“We would like to congratulate your students at St Edmund’s for their polite, respectful and engaging attitude towards us. It was good to see a school with a positive attitude being shown by so many students. Please congratulate them on our behalf. There was also no litter to be seen, well done!”

On Tuesday 7^th July, all staff members at St Edmund’s Catholic Academy took part in an inspiring day of unity and worship, in the beautiful setting of Hawkstone Hall, Shrewsbury.

This year the theme for their Catholicity Inset Day was Unity. The main focus was leadership in all aspects of their professional duties and especially their commitment to the service of leading all students to progress in their development into discerning, compassionate and wise men and women.

Amongst our Year 7 students, we have a very talented cricketer, Syed (Zak) Abbas. Syed has been playing  cricket since he was just 2 years old and is now the lead wicket taker for the district, playing not only with people of his own age, but amongst adults too.

He has been active at his local cricket club, Fordhouses, for three years and for the past couple of years, he has also been selected to play for the under 12’s at Staffordshire Cricket Club – a massive achievement considering almost 200 people tried out. When bowling at one of his matches, he was spotted by a coach and has since been asked to join Worcester Satellite Academy.

Syed said: “My dad’s always encouraged me to play cricket as he was a professional   cricketer for 10-15 years and I enjoy it because it’s a fun and I get to meet to new friends.”

Syed hopes to become a professional cricketer one day. We will continue to support him and hope that one day, he will go on to play for England!