Our school community truly lit up in a vibrant display of support and solidarity as we celebrated Hello Yellow on World Mental Health Day 2025.
It was an incredible day dedicated to raising awareness, fostering open conversations and fundraising for mental health initiatives. Our fantastic Sixth Form students embraced the spirit of the day by swapping their uniforms for an array of brilliant yellow outfits.
One of the highlights of the day was our very special ‘Yellow Tuckshop’. Packed with yellow-themed treats, it was a huge hit with all the students, knowing that every penny spent was going towards a fantastic cause.
Adding an extra splash of colour and fun was the Yellow Heart Face Painting. Students (and even some teachers) proudly sported bright yellow hearts on their cheeks, a simple yet powerful symbol of compassion and support for mental health.
Our dedicated team of Mental Health Champions played a vital role, making themselves available throughout the day, offering an informal, friendly space for peers to chat, share, or simply connect.
Thank you to everyone who participated, contributed and wore yellow. Your efforts have not only raised money but, more importantly, have helped to shine a bright light on the importance of mental health, encouraging empathy and understanding within our wonderful school community. Let’s keep these important conversations going all year round!
Good news! We’ve been recognised again as a Music Mark school for 2025-26. This is thanks to a nomination from Wolverhampton Music Service, and means that we have pledged to:
- Advocate for the importance of music education in the curriculum and creative life of our school
- Provide an equitable, diverse and inclusive music education for every young person
- Welcome opportunities to broaden our musical horizons by working with providers in our community and beyond
Our Open Evening yesterday was a resounding success, proving more popular than ever with a record-breaking attendance of over 950 visitors from surrounding towns and villages.
We want to thank every parent, carer, and student who attended for creating such a vibrant and lively atmosphere. It was fantastic for our staff and students to see the enthusiasm and excitement of the Year 5 and 6 students.
With a capacity audience, Principal Mrs. Hazeldine provided a genuine insight into the school, and the feedback afterward was overwhelmingly positive.
We must also commend our own students who were truly amazing! They were enthusiastic and passionate representatives, eager to showcase their subject areas and guide families around our beautiful academy.
We are receiving compliments from parents/carers who attended yesterday. One parent said, “The students who guided us were exceptionally polite and well-informed; the interactive sessions were unlike anything we had experienced on other school visits; the teachers were welcoming, and it was evident that they were deeply committed to their students. The catering staff were also delightful. Our overall impression upon leaving was of a school where everyone felt a sense of personal investment and pride. My daughter mentioned, this is the place for me.”
St Edmund’s looks forward to welcoming the new year 7 students in September 2026.
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We are delighted to announce that Mrs Alsop was nominated as a Black Country Hero in the Environmental Champion category last week. She was invited to attend the finalists’ ceremony at the Molineux Stadium.
Mrs Alsop didn’t win but that didn’t matter as it was an incredible night and she had the pleasure of meeting some truly wonderful and inspirational people doing amazing things in our area.
Congratulaions to Mrs Alsop who said, “I feel I was there on behalf of Eco Club and St Edmund’s, as well as all the wider community and organisations that have supported us, so this was one for all of us.”
Sadly, we all see too many pictures like the one on this post coming out of the awful situation in Gaza.
CAFOD, our global charity this year, is working alongside other aid agencies to attempt to relieve the suffering of the people of Gaza who are the worst affected by the ongoing war.
To help with this, on Friday 3 October, Rev will be doing a “Brave the Shave” to raise money for this appeal. He will lose all the hair on his head – with a bit of the beard remaining.
You are always fantastically generous in our charity appeals so please, if you are able, sponsor Rev by sending in £1 per student, cash is fine. We’ll all then be able to help someone who is going through this awful situation.
Thank you and God bless you all!
Rev
The St Edmund’s family would like to extend a warm welcome to prospective students and families to our Open Evening on Thursday 2nd October. This is a wonderful opportunity to explore our facilities and meet the vibrant, caring St Edmund’s family.
Meet our passionate teachers and students to get a real taste of the academic and extended learning curriculum we offer.
Staff and students will share what makes the St Edmund’s family so special, from academic and pastoral support, to student life and beyond.
The Principal will be giving presentations in the Arena at 6.15, 6.45 and 7.15pm.
Checkout the engaging taster sessions in some of our classrooms. Look out for the medieval experience, Wizard of Oz themed drama, writing in flavour and so much more!
We have plenty of car park spaces behind St Edmund’s and even more parking spaces are located further up the Compton Park Road on St Peter’s College staff car park.
Today we celebrated the launch of our new Catholic Multi-Academy Trust, St Gabriel the Archangel, with all 64 school coming together through a live-streamed Mass to welcome in the new Trust.
St Edmund’s students and staff joined our wider family in the prayer of St Gabriel as we celebrated the archangels, who are considered chief angels of the highest order.
Our family of schools were united together. ‘Forming pilgrims of hope with kind hearts, questioning minds, a thirst for knowledge, and a hunger for justice.’
This was a unique day in the life of the archdiocese, the wider parishes and in Catholic Education who work for our children, sharing the good news of Jesus.
Our new Catholic Multi-Academy Trust is dedicated to Gabriel the Archangel and is a special part of God’s family with 22,000+ pupils, 3,130 dedicated staff and hundreds of governors and partners.
“Listen with love and walk forward together, one community of faith, learning, and messengers of hope. We are forming pilgrims of hope with kind hearts, questioning minds, a thirst for knowledge and a hunger for justice.”
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Catholic Social Teaching has always been a part of the Church’s teaching and mission, right from the very beginning of the Church. It was formally written down at the end of the 19th century by Pope Leo XIII in his letter, or encyclical, “Rerum Novarum” (“On New Things”). Today, there are seven key principles or themes to this teaching. Building on the reception of our “Live Simply” award, this year at St Ed’s we will be focusing on the principle of “Care for our Common Home”.
Our three charities this year all work in some way to “Care for our Common Home.” They are:
Father Hudson’s Caritas – Local Charity
Operation Noah – National Charity
CAFOD – International Charity
We encourage all of our extended St Ed’s family to support our students in the endeavours to raise as much money as they can for the vital work undertaken by these charities.
For more information on CST and our charities, please click on the link below:
Catholic Social Teaching and our Charities – 2025-26
As part of our European Day of Languages celebrations, parents and carers were invited to join us for a ‘European Day of Languages’ themed Macmillan Coffee Morning today.
All funds raised from the sale will go to Macmillan Cancer Support who help raise vital funds to support over 3 million people living with cancer in the UK.
Students also had the opportunity to get involved in the cake sale at specific times throughout the day and were encouraged to come to the academy wearing clothes to represent a country from Europe.
Thank you to all parents and carers who came along to support the cake sale and help us to continue building the strength of our parent partnership and thank you to Miss Blanchette, Curriculum Leader for Modern Foreign Languages for organising the event.
