The winners of prayer competition on New Beginnings for a New Year are Tom O’connor 8ECH, Olivia Babula 8RPE, Daria Wojciechowska 8RPE and Ali Khan 8DMO
The students each received a chocolate prize for their wonderful efforts.
Students were also invited to wear a Christmas jumper this week which generated a total of £241 for the elected charities for 2021-22 which are Compton Care, Good Shepherd, Cancer Research Uk and CAFOD.
We all need to help serve the socially excluded and vulnerable members of society.
This year the Enterprise Homes Group (EHG) are fundraising around the message of Starting a New Chapter, giving all of the people they serve a chance to rewrite their story and we can help.
We are delighted to announce that St Edmund’s will be donating a cheque to EHC for £220 generated from a bake sale and a chocolate Christmas hamper raffle.
Congratulations to Wajihah who won the festive goodies.
Kindness matters.
#MAKINGHOMELESSNESSHISTORY #HOMELESS #NEXTCHAPTER
Photo: Wajihah
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
