Huge congratulations to our Sixth Form Charity Team for raising over £170 for Macmillan Cancer Support with their cake sale on Friday. Many thanks for all your generous donations and amazing cakes, and a special mention must go to ‘star baker’ Sam from our Catering Team for her wonderful St Edmund’s themed cupcakes.

Join us at 9.15 am for our Open Morning.  You will be taken on a tour of the Academy and have the opportunity to meet the Principal and hear why Ofsted rate us as Good.

The Academy will close at 12.15 pm to pupils to enable us to prepare for the Open Evening at 6.00 pm.  There will be lots of fun and engaging activities taking place in our classrooms, food sampling in our dining room and even a treasure hunt with prizes to be won. Please come along and see our Academy in action.

Should any of these times prove difficult, it may be possible to make an appointment with the Principal for parents or guardians to visit at a mutually convenient time.

We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 4 October.

Open Mornings

*Prompt 9:15am start. Talk by the Principal followed by a tour of the Academy.

9.15 – 10.45 am Tuesday 4 October 2016

9.15 – 10.45 am Wednesday 12 October 2016

Open Evening

6.00 – 8.30 pm Tuesday 4 October 2016

It’s that time of year again when Year 7 pupils at St. Edmund’s complete their Bikeability course.

This course involves the Wolverhampton Road Safety Team coming to the Academy and delivering a full day of cycle training to tutor groups.

The team from Wolverhampton are fantastic and have been working with our Academy for many years. This good relationship is built on the respect that our pupils show the team and how welcome we make them feel.

On Monday, 7KE were the first tutor group to spend a day on the Bikeability course and really enjoyed it!

On Thursday 16th October, the business department organised a fabulous trip for year 10 students at St Edmund’s Catholic Academy, to visit Entrepreneur Live! student conference,  at Star City in Birmingham.

There were many inspirational speeches from the entrepreneurs – including; Micha Quashie, Arnold Du Toit, Ross Kemp, Rob Tomming and Zoe Jackson.

They shared a range of intriguing stories with them, of how their products got developed and how their businesses hit off the ground.

Mr Bentley, Mrs Curtis and Mr White accompanied the students and the conference was enjoyed by all. It gave the pupils a real insight into what it takes to start up your own business.

Pavan Suniar 10JM said: “The most inspirational speech for me, was Arnold Du Toit, the inventor of the electric golf trolley. He went into detail about his product and how it progressed in stages. He also told us how he met Richard Branson and that whilst he was trying to impress a customer, the brakes failed on the trolley! It was from this moment that Du Toit progressed in his business and is now a very wealthy man, worth over a million pounds.”

On Monday evening, pupils and parents from St Edmund’s Catholic Academy, along with various other primary and secondary schools from the Wolverhampton area, attended the Wolverhampton Deanery Cafod Harvest Mass at St Anthony’s Church.

St Edmund’s students were chosen to do the readings and Lara Poiblanc from Sixth Form, read beautifully as well as taking our gift up to Bishop David during the offertory.

Bishop David spoke to all the students about how each school had raised money and Lara told him how we had been collecting loose change within our forms and that we will be continuing to do so for the rest of the year.

Bishop David homily reminded us of many things: not just to be thankful for our many gifts – from crops to food and water, but also to pray for those less fortunate, especially the people suffering in Gaza, Syria and other countries.

A particularly moving part of mass was talk of planting a ‘seed’. The Bishop spoke about a farmer planting a seed and being able to see his crop grow, but remembering that, sometimes, we can’t always physically see the ‘seeds’ we have planted grow right before our very eyes, but instead, are able to see the affects later.

Special thanks must go to Trevor Stockton, the Cafod Coordinator and schools volunteer for Wolverhampton Deanery, who has organised these masses for 14 years, and who we saw retire on Monday. We thank him for all his hard work and dedication. And finally, a big thank you to Father Brendon Corrick and his team for hosting such a lovely Mass.