We are excited to announce that we have a vacancy for a staff governor.

The Articles of Association and Scheme of Delegation of the St Francis & St Clare Catholic Multi Academy Company requires that the local governing body must include one staff governor who has been elected by the staff at the school.

Eligible members of staff are now invited to take part in the election of this staff governor. Official nomination forms are available from Wendy Harding or from the School Website. Forms should be returned to Margaret Gallagher, Chair of Governors, no later than 12 noon, on Tuesday 1st October 2019.

For more information please see click on the links below.

Notice of Election – Staff Governor – Google Docs

Nomination form – Google Docs

We have a fixed term vacancy for a General Catering Assistant, up to July 2020, for 20 hours a week.

The successful applicant will be joining St Edmunds Catholic Academy at an exciting time as we are part of the new St Francis and St Clare Catholic Multi Academy Company launching in September 2019.

We are an 11 – 18 Catholic Academy with 915 pupils on role including 112 in the Sixth Form. Situated in Compton Park, a quiet and leafy suburb of Wolverhampton, adjoining St Peter’s Collegiate School and Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Academy.

Working under the direction of the Catering Team Leader assisting with the preparation, cooking, cleaning, washing up and serving of meals to pupils and staff.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.

For more information, please contact Reception at St Edmund’s Catholic Academy; Compton Park, Compton Road West, Wolverhampton, WV3 9DU or call 01902 558888.  Application forms can be accessed via our Academy website:  www.stedmunds.org

 Closing Date:  Thursday 19th September 2019

Interview Date: to be confirmed

For more information please visit our vacancies page.

https://www.stedmundscloud.co.uk/jobs/

St Edmund’s Catholic Academy will be holding an Open Evening 6.00 – 8.00pm Thursday 10th October.  There will be an opportunity to look around our facilities, meet staff and students, engage in classroom activities and ask those all important questions.

If you are unable to attend our Open Evening there will be tours of the academy during Open Mornings:

• 9.00am Thursday 19 September 2019
• 9.00am Tuesday 1 October 2019
• 9.00am Wednesday 16 October 2019

For more information contact our Admissions Team on 01902 558888 or email admissions@stedmunds.org

The first day of our Battlefields trip began very early as we had to be at school at around 5.30am to then get on the coach at 6am! We stayed on the coach until we got to the Eurotunnel. When we got there we have about 20 minutes to go and buy some food and drink and then we had to get back on the coach where we continued our journey to France.We were on the Eurotunnel for about half an hour before we saw daylight again and when we did, it was very hot! From the coach we travelled to the Commonwealth War Graves. After this we visited the German trench system and looked at the use of ground, the trench construction and the problems with the trenches whilst they were fighting. We then went and dropped our bags off at our hostel and went for dinner. After dinner we went to the Menin gate and watched a last post ceremony.

On the second day, we woke up and ate breakfast; there was a variety of cereal, fruit and pastries. They also served chocolate milk, orange juice and hot drinks.  After breakfast we went on the coach and began our journey to the Somme. At the Somme, we went to the Sunken Lane, and learned about a soldier who fought there. Then we went to visit some of the graves by the Sunken Lane and saw the grave of the soldier we had learnt about.   After lunch, we went to visit the trenches and we walked across the battlefields and  went to visit a mine crater. Later we went to the Ocean Villas tea room to have dinner, which was lasagne and chips with a side of bread. Once we finished our dinner, we went back to our accommodation. When we arrived, we were given the opportunity to go on a walk, which some of us did.

On the last day, Wednesday 19th of June, we  departed our accommodation and visited the first German Cemetery called Langemarck and the tour guides taught us about how Hitler changed part of the cemetery and accidentally buried some English men.  Outside of the cemetery there was a structure made from metal that was formed into poppies.  One of the flowers was painted white and it signified that one special person in someone’s life that was in the war. We went to the St. Julien Memorial site and learned about how gas masks evolved throughout time, we then listened a reading of Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est.” After this we went to the Passchendaele Museum where we went into the British and German trenches and compared the better ones. We judged that the Germans had better trenches as they were more spacious and was dug deeper which meant shells wouldn’t be able to go into the trench.  After lunch we had fifteen minutes of free time in Ypres, Belgium to buy whatever we wanted. Our trip ended went we returned to the coach to begin our return trip to England.  We arrived at school at 12pm.

Rowan Ridley, Maegan Rose and Grace Chihowa