The Catholic Church celebrates the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary on its traditional fixed date of September 8, nine months after the December 8 celebration of her Immaculate Conception as the child of Saints Joachim and Anne.
We celebrated this Feast on Friday by welcoming the New Year 12’s in their next part of their education here at St Edmund’s Catholic Academy, many who were already members of the St Edmund’s family and others from different schools.
We hope they feel the presence of our Lord every day and that his love gives them the strength to be people of God in all they say and do.
After Mass some of the Altar Servers placed a plant at the foot of our new statue of our lady in the peace garden. Saint Augustine described the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary as an event of cosmic and historic significance, and an appropriate prelude to the birth of Jesus Christ. “She is the flower of the field from whom bloomed the precious lily of the valley,” he said.
On Tuesday September, we welcomed year 7 to the Community of St Edmunds Catholic Academy by inviting them and their families to celebrate Mass in the Arena.
Many of the new students took part in the mass, reading and bringing the gifts of bread and wine to the Altar. We are blessed with lots of new Altar Servers from different churches who are a credit to their parishes. Fr Mark and the staff were impressed with the service they gave.
We wish all the new students and staff a happy time at St Edmund’s and look forward to seeing them develop into the saints they can be, as Mrs Hughes said ‘one of them may even be the future Prime minster or a future Olympian’.
Prayers to Begin a School Year
God of wisdom and might,
we praise you for the wonder of our being,
for mind, body and spirit.
Be with our children as they begin
a new school year.
Bless them and their teachers and staff.
Give the strength and grace as their bodies grow;
wisdom and knowledge to their minds
as they search for understanding;
and peace and zeal to their hearts.
We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Part of Bishop Cleary Catholic Multi Academy Company, St Michael’s are seeking to appoint a motivated, adaptable and well-qualified Site Manager to maintain and improve the academy building and grounds. Our excellent, hard-working staff and pupils are looking for a site manager with a high calibre of DIY skills, excellent communication at all levels and good working knowledge of Health and Safety to join our team.
For more information, please follow this link below:
We are seeking to appoint an Academy Cleaner to carry out under reasonable direction the appropriate duties in the case of buildings and the teaching environment, in matters of safety, cleanliness and comfort, conducive to the working needs of pupils, staff and other site users.
Required as soon as possible
Scale 1 £7.83 per hour
15 hours per week – 3.45pm – 6.45pm Monday to Friday
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
See our vacancies page for more information: http://www.stedmundscloud.co.uk/jobs/academy-cleaner-6/
Our new Scholastic Book Club is up and running. Orders can be placed using the C2C Booklet and returned it to school with payment. Alternatively go to http://schools.scholastic.
For every £1 you spend on this month’s Book Club, our school will earn 25p in Scholastic Rewards.
Please place your order online by September 25th, 2017.
See Mrs Lowe in the Library for more information.
We would like to invite you to celebrate our excellent results for our former year 11 and 13 outcomes, as part of our Presentation Evening. This will be a wonderful opportunity for ex-students to catch up with friends and teachers and celebrate in each other’s successes.
Our Chief Guest and Principal Speaker will be our former student, James Potts, a researcher and assistant to the Deputy Mayor of London.
There will be a special award ceremony followed by an informal reception so why not come along and celebrate with us. Guests are required to be seated by 6.30pm.
If you would like more information please contact the Academy: 01902 558888
St Edmund’s students are celebrating fantastic GCSE, BTEC and VCert results this year.
78% of our 2017 Y11 examination candidates achieved the new GCSE grades 9 to 4 in Mathematics and 74% in English. Grade 4 is equivalent to grade C and grade 8 equates to A*. Grade 9 is the highest grade and St Edmund’s students are among the very best of the small percentage of those awarded grade 9 nationally.
54% of students today receive news that they hold A*, A, or the highest new grade 9 when they open their results.
Our highest achieving students are Summa Bains; 9,8,7, 5A*, 2A. Akash Paul; 9,8,7, 2A*, 5A. Sabrina Agbonmare; 8,8,8,7A. Amir Muhammed 8,6,6, 2A*, 5A.
Students have done particularly well in GCSEs Art, Biology, Chemistry, English, French, Italian, Mathematics, Music, Polish, Product Design, RE and Russian.
Principal Maggie Hughes said:
Our students fully deserve their success, given the effort they have invested in their learning and progress. Once again, I commend the students and staff for working in close partnership to secure these outstanding outcomes. Five years of commitment and dedication have been worthwhile
This is the first year that students are awarded number grades in GCSEs Mathematics and English. I am particularly delighted that our students have achieved grade 9s in both these subjects.
Our students, their families and St Edmund’s can be justly proud of Y11 2017. With so many of our students attaining such high standards I look forward to welcoming them to continue their education at St Edmund’s when they join our successful Sixth Form next month.
Maggie Hughes
Principal
Ever thought of becoming a Director, Governor or Representative in an education setting? Are you 18 or over with approximately 10 – 12 hours free each month with a genuine interest in supporting Catholic education? Then we may have a role for you.
Diocesan Education Service Opportunities
St Edmund’s is very pleased with its best ever A Level Results this year: all of our students were successful with 35% of students achieving A* or A grades this year.
Our top achieving student is Deputy Head Boy, Adria Dongo Munoz with a total point score of 220 and average point score of 55. He achieved A* grades in Mathematics and Chemistry, with A grades in Further Mathematics and Physics. Adria is is closely followed by Maciej Myszczynski who achieved three A grades in Electronics, Mathematics and Physics. Head Girl, Natasha Dawes has A grades in English Literature and Government & Politics and B grades in History and Psychology. These three students have others “hot on their heels” with many students having at least one A* or A grade in their collection of results and high average point scores.
Principal Maggie Hughes said,
“The most joyous aspect of this year’s results is the wide range of subject success. All students taking Sport, IT, Theatre Studies, English Literature, Film Studies, French, Further Mathematics and Psychology gained the highest grades and the majority of students taking Business, Chemistry, Electronics, Geography, Government & Politics, Graphics (Architecture), History, Mathematics and Sociology students also achieved high grades.
This is testament to the persistence and work hard of our students, who are supported by well-qualified, experienced and dedicated teachers with the highest professional standards. They deliver best quality teaching and guidance for the young people they serve.
Yet again, by working together our community of young people and professionals can enjoy outstanding outcomes. Join St Edmund’s sixth-form and you can be confident of success”
Left to right: Natasha Dawes, Adria Dongo Munoz, Mrs Hughes and Maciej Myszczynski
An excellent opportunity to work as part of a team, as an Apprentice Property Maintenance Operative, within the Bishop Cleary Multi Academy Company working across 5 schools in Wolverhampton . If you are practically minded with a can do attitude, then we really would like to hear from you.
Please see the Government Apprenticeship Website for more information by following this link:- https://www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeship/-138397
Closing date: 12:00 Friday 1 September 2017
