Due to the Queen’s Jubilee, St Edmund’s will have an additional Inset Day on Friday 18th February 2022.
School will be closed on this day.
This year St Edmund’s Catholic Academy and the Compton Park community have been blessed with beautiful Christmas lights on our 27m tree.
It is with gratitude and thanks to our wonderful neighbours Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club (@Wolves) who so kindly donated the lights and appointed CKW Contracts Ltd (@CkwLtd) to provide the crane and resources to decorate the tree. We look forward to lighting the sky each Christmas bringing cheer to our Compton Park family.
Christmas Tree Blessing – By Laura Kazlas
Holy Creator of Trees, Bless with your abundant grace this our Christmas tree as a symbol of joy. May its evergreen branches be a sign of your never-fading promises. May its colourful lights and ornaments call us to decorate with love our home and our world. May the gifts that surround this tree be symbols of the gifts that we have received from the Tree of Christ’s Cross. Holy Christmas tree within our home, may Joy and Peace come and nest in your branches and in our hearts. Amen
Photo: Maggie Hazeldine (Principal) with Edie, our wellbeing dog.
On Thursday 25th November 2021, Sister Rita came to visit our class! She answered our questions and informed us about her religious life journey.
Every student was intrigued by her story. Many questions were asked and many children were inspired by the work she has done to help the community. Sister Rita told us how she became a nun and how she left her family back home in India to fulfill her role in the community.
Thank you for coming, Sister Rita, it was a pleasure meeting you and listening to you and we also enjoyed your company.
Written by Banu Johal and Serena Verma
Photo: Father Sean and Sister Rita
The Royal British Legion has asked people to observe the silence and consider the human cost of war.
Today St Edmund’s students and staff will begin a two minute silence to mark Armistice Day, which bought an end to the First World War, and to remember all of those who have sadly lost their lives to protect our freedom and country.
Animals will also be remembered and commemorated for their contribution in war zones.
Poppy sales have generated £35 which will be passed on to the Royal British Legion to help them provide lifelong support to serving and ex-serving personnel and their families.
The Catholic Women’s League’s have produced and published a cook-book, containing donated soup recipes, to generate much needed funds for CAFOD.
This will make good Christmas presents as well as being useful. The ingredients in these recipes of course do not include meat: linking the traditional Friday Abstinence with current environmental concerns which is at the heart of CAFOD’s work.
The cost of the book is still £3.
If you would like to make a purchase please email: [email protected]
The BBC were invited to St Edmund’s today to deliver a Key Stage 3 workshop on careers, presented by actor and BBC radio show host Mim Shaikh.
The workshop was composed of a panel of interviewees, Ashley Mikkola from Aceleron, Amber Sandhu part of the BBC Sport and Radio Digital Team and Jack Lonsdale from Stantec.
The aim of the event was to get the students thinking about their future career opportunities and to launch the importance of careers at St. Edmund’s. Our students actively asked questions to the panel and were left motivated and inspired by the event.
The Careers lead, Mr Rawal said, “The BBC have done an amazing job to help with the development of careers within schools and we felt privileged to host them at St. Edmund’s today”.
Photo L-R: Ashley Mikkola, Jack Lonsdale from Stantec and Amber Sandhu BBC Sport and Radio Digital Team
Molly Kerin achieved her Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award in year 10 and went on to recently complete her silver award while in Sixth Form. This is the first silver award achieved at St Edmunds in quite a while.
In order to complete the award Molly had to complete 4 sections; Volunteering, Physical, Skill and an Expedition. For her physical and skill sections she completed regular walking activities and developed her photography skills. For volunteering Molly has taken part in Feed Our Pack events with Wolverhampton Wanderers, where she helped pack food parcels for disadvantaged families during the pandemic and lockdowns. Finally Molly completed 2 expeditions which involved 3 days of walking and 2 nights camping for each expedition. Molly had to be completely self-sufficient during this expedition carrying everything she needed in a rucksack including tent, food, clothing water and stove. Travelling approximately 15km per day, this was a very difficult change but a very rewarding one.
Well done Molly.
Photo: Molly Kerin – Head Prefect
On Friday 15th October, 2021, ConnectEd Partnership presented several staff and Megan Morgan (Year 9) with rainbow trophies.
ConnectEd Partnership works across Wolverhampton schools helping with teacher training, pupil development and strive to uphold their mission to improve outcomes from their Wolverhampton education.
Staff at St Edmunds (Miss Rainey, Mrs Wilcox, Mr Harris, Mrs Llewellyn, Mrs Halvadzic, Mrs Hynes, Mr Perkins, Miss John, Miss Buckle, Mr Endean, Mrs Watts-Robinson and Mr Reynolds) had trophies delivered and a citation for their fantastic work supporting the pupils of St Edmund’s through the challenging academic year that was 2020 – 2021.
They have been a real credit to the academy and should be very proud of their work. The pupils of St Edmund’s are lucky to have them amongst the staff of the academy.
Mr Selvey and Megan Morgan received rainbow star awards for their efforts during the academic year, their extra efforts being recognised for the help, support and advice they provided.
Megan was especially recognised for her efforts in the year group and physical education where her guidance for other pupils was outstanding. She was a rock for many others and provided more for other Year 9 pupils than she realises. Constant selfless acts that kept others motivated and happy. Thank you for your care Megan!
The best thing about the academy is that we know that this work will continue as it is embedded in our ethos.
Photo: Megan Morgan and Mr Selvey
Photo Left to Right: Mrs Hynes, Mr Harris, Mr Selvey and Mrs Llewellyn
Congratulations to Ellie Clews (Year 9) for successfully being selected for the Wolverhampton City U14 girls football team.
Well done Ellie, your hard work and commitment during the two selection sessions was fantastic! We wish you all the very best in your future matches with Wolverhampton.
Ellie said, “I’m so excited to play for the U14 girls team. I am waiting to find outt when the first match takes place”.
Photo: Ellie Clews
Young Professionals is a company that helps thousands of school students to accelerate their careers in apprenticeship and work experience programs. As a Year 12 studying Maths, Economics, Physics and Further Mathematics, this program was recommended by my Head of Year.
Working with prestigious companies, Young Professionals offers many webinars and live events and it has been reassuring to find out that the main objective of companies is to employ people based on their qualities and personalities, not just the grades they achieve. It has been amazing to hear this from companies such as PCW and CIMA.
The Birmingham Banking and Finance live event was a great way for me to get an insight into this career path and how companies offer programmes, such as a degree apprenticeship, paying for you to go to uni and then providing a job with their company as soon as you qualify. It is an incredible thought to be debt-free and employed straight after finishing university.
The in-person event was also amazing, as we were able to network with the companies there who were interested to hear about our aspirations and help us in meeting our goal, either through their company or another they could recommend.
The main reason I have been so impressed with Young Professionals is that the owners are two 23-year-old friends, one of whom was a dropout at the age of 17 and the other had the “worst day of my life” after gaining 3 Cs at A-level and not being able to go to his chosen university. After having a conversation with them, I realised how genuine both Dan and Josh were and how willing they were to help undecided young people with great skills and qualities to find their career path.
To learn more about Young Professionals you can either find me during lunch or break times or go to the Young Professionals website:
https://young-professionals.uk/
Instagram: @youngprouk
Gjovani Cinari (Year 12)
