Saturday 18th November 2:00pm – 4:00pm. Boys and girls welcome ages 9-14.
Parental consent forms with Mrs Ferris – Lay Chaplain.
The new selected student academy committee represented the school on Thursday 2nd November at Mass for the Feast of the Holy Souls. Fr Brendan Carrick was kind enough to join us and celebrate this Mass with us.
All Souls’ Day commemorates the faithful departed. Through the month of November, Catholic churches will pray and remember those gone before us.
During the Mass prayers were said, as we remembered relatives of our community who passed away this year and previous years.
According to Catholic belief, the soul of a person who dies can go to one of three places. The first is Heaven, where a person who dies in a state of perfect grace and communion with God goes. The second is Hell, where those who die in a state of mortal sin are naturally condemned by their choice. The intermediate option is Purgatory, which is thought to be where most people, free of mortal sin, but still in a state of lesser (venial) sin, must go. Catholics believe that through the prayers of the faithful on Earth, the dead are cleansed of their sins so they may enter into heaven.
Eternal rest grant to them, O Lord; and let light perpetual shine upon them. May their soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
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The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) and Action Fraud have recently noticed that Fraudsters have been setting up fake adverts on social media (including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) and job browsing websites to dupe people into believing they are recruiting for prospective models.
Once victims show interest in the job, the fraudsters contact potential victims on the false promise of a modelling career and subsequently advise the victims to come in for a test shoot.
The fraud can then potentially be carried out in two ways;
Firstly, the fraudsters can pressurise the victims in sending an upfront fee to book a slot for the test shoot. Once they have received the upfront fee, the victim will never hear from the fraudsters again.
The second possible method is that the fraudsters will take the advance fee that the victim sends for a photo shoot and arrange a photo shoot with the victim. After the photo shoot, the fraudsters will contact the victim after a few days and convince them that their shoot was successful and offer them a job as a model. The victim will then be asked to sign a contract and pay another upfront fee, usually to secure the modelling contract.
Fraudsters are also creating fake adverts for supposed modelling opportunities for children which do not exist. Fraudsters will inform parents or guardians that a potential career in modelling awaits their child. This tactic convinces the parent or guardian to sign up their child and send an advance fee.
The suspects will also convince the victim that in order to become a model, they will need to have a portfolio. The fraudsters will recommend a number of packages and stress that if a package is not paid for in advance, the process of becoming a model cannot continue.
Over a two year period (September 2015 â August 2017), an average of 28 reports of advance fee modelling frauds have been received per month by the NFIB. In August 2017, 49 Action Fraud reports of this fraud type were received and may continue to rise. The total loss in August 2017 alone was over ÂŁ71,000.
Tips for staying safe:
- Carry out your own research prior to paying any type of advance or upfront fee.
- Be wary if you are asked to pay for a portfolio, as many legitimate agencies will cover that cost.
- Don’t give your bank account details or sensitive information to anyone without carrying out your own research on the relevant agency.
- If you have been affected by this, or any other type of fraud, report it to Action Fraud by visiting www.actionfraud.police.uk or by calling 0300 123 2040.
Warrant Officer John Thacker and Edmund Grandison a reserve in the Royal Navy came to speak about the vast amount of Navy Careers available. The sixth form were engaged listening to John’s personal experience of his career. The students took part in an assessment.
John went on to give more details on the degree courses available through the Navy, he also explained various careers available and salaries. John explained how learning styles are suited to various learners.
Jess Banks asked what type of jobs are available, John stated, aviation, flying helicopters to administration and directed students to the website.
Edmund explained his role of how he trains soldiers to defend the ship, he gave detailed descriptions of the places he has travelled and opportunities that he has had.
Tuesday the 10th October is World Mental Health Day.
Mental Health problems can affect anyone, any day of the year, the 10th of October is a great day to show your support for better mental health and start looking after your own wellbeing.
1 in 10 young people in the UK have a mental health problem, which is around 3 young people in every classroom.
Our students will be watching a video on a child with mental health problems and then discussing what advice they would give, what other mental health problems could young people experience.
They will also look at celebrities that experience mental health problems such as Justin Beiber, David Beckham, Adele, J.K Rowling to show that it can happen to anyone but also with the right help we can work towards coping with the illness and controlling it so we can get through each day.
Blessed are those who donât have it all together
Blessed are those who have run out of strength, ideas, will power, resolve or energy
Blessed are those who ache because of how severely out of whack the world is
Blessed are those who on a regular basis have a dark day in which despair seems to be a step behind them wherever they go
Blessed are you, for God is with you
God is on your side, God meets you in that place.
By Jonathon Blundell
Prayer Life
There are many forms and ways to pray.
One of the ways our Lay Chaplain supports our staff is to pray for them every day. She puts their names on lolly sticks in a jar at the start of the year, then every day while she is in the Chapel praying for the day ahead, apart from praying for all the students and staff of St Edmunds, she takes three names out of the jar and especially pray for those people. She then sends them an email.
Many of them feel comforted by the prayers and send emails back with many messages of thanks.
Maybe we could all have prayer jars with the names of our loved ones in the jar or a box. Every day we could pray for at least 3 of them and then text them or even phone them to tell them you were thinking of them. How contagious would the prayers be?
Today 15 St Edmundâs students from St Edmundâs Chaplaincy team travelled to St Chadâs Cathedral, in Birmingham, along with other schools in the Diocese to attend the annual Chaplaincy Commissioning Mass.
Archbishop Bernard Longley being the main celebrant along with other priests from the Archdiocese. BCYS and Kenelm Trust led the music. Sinead Cullen Barrett of our Sixth-form Chaplaincy team gave a reading and two of our altar servers, Abigail Caron and Jessica Roberts, assisted the Archbishop and priests throughout the Mass.
Archbishop Bernard opened his homily by saying âDo not be afraidâ taken from the Gospel reading today. He explained to the students and congregation that he and the Lord understands that sometimes it can be hard to be different, to say you believe in God and thanked everyone for their commitment in making our schools a faithful caring example to others.
The Archbishop also spoke of the Bishopsâ Synod in 2018 on âYouth, Faith and Discernmentâ and asked us to listen to the words of Pope Francis , “So today, my friends, Jesus is inviting you, calling you, to leave your mark on life, to leave a mark on history, your own and that of many others as well.”
âSo if anyone declares himself for me in the presence of men, I will declare myself for him in the presence of my Father in heavenâ taken from the Gospel of Luke.
During the Mass, Lay Chaplains of the Archdiocese were presented with the âArchdiocese of Birmingham Certificate of Lay Chaplaincyâ after 18 months of dedicated study. Mrs Ferris, our Lay Chaplain, received her certificate from the Archbishop. Mrs Ferrisâs ministry to the community of St Edmundâs grows stronger and deeper. We are very proud of her richly deserved success.
All the students loved being part of the celebrations today. Mrs Hughes and Mrs Ferris are proud of our students for their commitment to Chaplaincy, the school and their faith.
Maciej Myszczynski and Adria Dongo Munoz from Year 13 represented St. Edmund’s the British Physics Olympiad on 14th November. This is an annual competition open to physics students in every school in the country. This year over 1,680 students took part. The questions in the competition are designed to stretch and challenge even the most capable problem solving physicists. Maciej was awarded a Bronze 2 certificate and Adria a Commendation certificate. Well done to both students for their excellent achievement.
St Edmundâs 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. Â Grade 4 is equivalent to grade C and grade 8 equates to A*. Grade 9 is the highest grade and St Edmundâs 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 Edmundâs 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 Edmundâs when they join our successful Sixth Form next month.
Maggie Hughes
Principal
ast week we celebrated the Feast of St Peter and St Paul with two Masses. As the students entered, they watched a video clip of St Peterâs Basilica in Rome.
Fr Mark Crisp spoke to the school community about how the Catholic Church is the oldest institution and, with all the changes of power over the years, it is a blessing that it is still alive.
St Peter was the first disciple to be ordained as a priest and, if you were to trace a priestâs timeline of who ordained them, they would all trace back to St Peter and Jesus himself. St Paul was the saint who taught the Gospels to Christ himself.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church.
And the gates of the underworld can never hold out against it.
Alleluia!
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