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• Friday 14 March 2025 Houses of Parliament Trip An amazing experience for our Year 9 students, Cali and Elora, who represented our school for the launch of the 'Send my friend to school' campaign' They visited The Houses of Parliament, met politicians, Ade the former Paralympian basketball player and speakers from Cafod all who are passionate about education both nationally and globally.
• Monday 10 March 2025 Congratulations to our Health & Social Care Students Congratulations to our Health & Social Care students who have received final results this week - very respectable grades of Distinction and Distinction*, to provide them with the maximum UCAS points to support them in their next steps. Well done to our future Nurses, Teachers, Police officers and Therapists. We are so proud of you all.
• Friday 7 March 2025 Sports Results - Week Beginning 3th March On Monday 3rd March, the U13 Girls' came away with a 3-3 draw against Bartley Green.It was a hard fought game but the team showed real resilience, perseverance and character to come away with a draw and remain unbeaten this season. I am hugely proud of all of the girls and their commitment, each member of the team is exceptional and should be proud of their efforts. Bring on the next game! Well done to Olivia, Sadie, Molly, Caycee, Ronny, Aniya, Erica, Jess, Angel and Libby.
• Thursday 6 March 2025 Apprenticeship workshops Some of our Year 7s were given the opportunity to complete an Apprenticeship assessment centre task this week. Four classes were taught about Apprenticeships, how to apply and how they compare to other qualifications like degrees and A-Levels. They were assigned a brief and a budget and had to build the highest and strongest tower which would withstand Mrs Bentley's "earthquake test". Students enjoyed getting to work together in groups, see each other's creations and share their justifications for different actions taken during the process. All students were a credit to their Head of Year Mr Howes and worked really hard throughout the sessions. Well done year 7!
• Friday 28 February 2025 Year 12 'What Next?' Exhibition at the NEC Last Friday, year 12 visited the NEC for the What Next? Exhibition. They visited stands from Higher Education providers from Aberyswyth to Worcester Universities, apprenticeship providers like the BBC and The Royal Navy and talked about early careers in law, accountancy, education and even farming! We even met the internet revision sensation, Primrose Kitten. A huge thanks to Mrs Bentley for organising and Mrs Cranage for supporting, and well done to all students who bagged themselves all the freebies!
• Friday 28 February 2025 Arete - 2025 On Monday, 24th February, we took 28 adventurous Year 9 students to the depths of North Wales for the week. Whilst the drive was long and the initial weather was very stormy, it did start to clear once we arrived in Wales, and we had the chance to awe at the stunning scenery as we approached the many mountains and rivers cascading down the hills. Upon arriving at the Arete Centre in Llanrug, the pupils quickly dropped their bags off and got changed for an afternoon of rock climbing and bouldering!
• Monday 10 February 2025 School of Sanctuary Visit This week six of our students including two of our refugee children visited the School of Sanctuary celebration day. The lead workshops making feet, wrote prayers as pilgrims of hope for refugees and decorated them.
• Monday 10 February 2025 Sports News - Week Beginning 10th Feb
• Thursday 6 February 2025 Year 8 Retreat - Feb 2025 On Thursday we had inspirational speakers in for our Year 8 retreat. Barry and Margaret Mizen spoke about their sons' death encouraging students to think of three words: forgiveness, hope and peace. Daniella Stephens prayed with students and spoke of her love for Jesus and encouraged students to find some peace and quiet in their busy lives.
• Friday 31 January 2025 Adam represents GB in Italy! Adam (Year 12) has been in competitive skiing for several years and is going from strength to strength. In January, he represented GB in Italy and he not only improved day by day and got personal bests every day against much older men in the race, he also came away with multiple podiums from various different categories, and several in first place. Adam has now met the qualifying criteria for selection for the Youth Olympics! Well done Adam - your dedication to your sport is so inspiring!
• Thursday 16 January 2025 Recre8 Visit to the Birmingham Hippodrome On Thursday 16th January, 18 STACS students from Years 8 and 9 were given the amazing opportunity to visit the Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre to watch the Peter Pan pantomime. The trip was organised by the Recre8 mentoring group who had been running Drama-therapy sessions in school over the Autumn Term with the students who attended. This mentoring has been invaluable to the young people involved, using interactive sessions to help discuss barriers to education and helping our students to overcome them.
• Wednesday 18 December 2024 Christmas Evening of Carols and Readings On Wednesday we held our annual evening of carols and readings. It was lovely to see the sports hall full of families and past and present members of staff. It is always a magical evening and the real start of Christmas for us. Well done to everyone that took part and for all those behind the scenes.
• Wednesday 18 December 2024 Sixth Form Spirit Week We’re halfway through Sixth Form Spirit Week and today the theme was Matching Day where students dressed to match their friends. We had plenty of characters from Dispicable Me, including lots of Minions, Gru, Vector, Agnes, Edith & Margot. We also had Daphne and Velma from Scooby Doo, and video game characters Fireboy and Watergirl! Tomorrow is ‘Future Me’ day so we’re excited to see what outfits appear!
• Tuesday 17 December 2024 St Chad's Sanctuary Christmas Party Today we sang at the Christmas party for asylum seekers and refugees at the St Chad’s Sanctuary Christmas Party. We enjoyed meeting everyone and even saw Santa and his elf. Such a joyful event.
• Monday 16 December 2024 6th Form Revue - Dec 2024 The current year 12 students carried on the great STACS tradition of putting on a festive show for our year 7 students. They were treated to sing-along Christmas hits, along with some festive challenges, eating mini 'yule logs' and snowballs without using their hands. In addition, house teams tried to build a snowman by wrapping a member of staff in toilet paper, and adding a hat, scarf carrot nose and eyes! These were possibly the worst snowmen ever seen, but it was good fun! For a break in challenges we had a music round based on the Masked Singer - with Father Christmas, a Christmas tree, a Polar Bear and a Snowman all taking to the stage. The cheers from our audience drowned out the winning announcement but our characters removed their 'masks' to reveal Miss Moran, Mrs. Bentley, Mr. O'Sullivan and Mr. Greatrex. A final music round with everyone singing and dancing to Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody and our afternoon was complete. Congratulations to the winners, and special thanks
• Thursday 12 December 2024 OLPS Prayer service On Thursday we were invited to sing at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour's carol service. It was to raise money for the SVP (St Vincent De Paul), an organization who provides food bags for for needy families in the community.Millie, Tyler, Maisie and Ellie-Mae sang a beautiful rendition of 'Mary Did You Know'. We also joined with St James primary school. It was a joyful event that we enjoyed being part of.
• Thursday 12 December 2024 Deloitte Assembly On Thursday 12th December, we were joined by employees of the global company Deloitte. The whole of 6th form were spoken to about accountancy, auditing and sustainability as a way to help businesses succeed. Claire, James, Luca and Shannon all gave the pathways they took to their current roles within the company and gave an account of their own experiences within a global company like Deloitte. Students were left inspired by the diversity of the firm and the many options available to them in terms of routes to employment.
• Monday 9 December 2024 Social Media Workshops Over the past two weeks, Year 8 have been lucky to have been part of Social media workshops given by Positive Social. Rachael, our instructor, was fabulous with students and taught them about how to better navigate social media safely and responsibly. All students were engaged throughout the session and all learnt more about the impact of their online presence on themselves and the people around them. Students finished the workshop by pledging actions they are going to undertake in order to look after themselves better whilst online. Thank you to staff who supported throughout the day and to students who were amazing all day!
• Friday 6 December 2024 Five days of Christmas Cheer
• Friday 6 December 2024 Lourdes Quiz Night - Nov 24 On Friday evening around 70 people from our extended Aquinas family including staff, students, former students, governors and families gathered together for our annual Lourdes Quiz Night. It was a wonderful and thoroughly enjoyable evening, bringing our community together to support our 6th formers going to Lourdes next May.
• Tuesday 3 December 2024 FutureChef Cooking Competition Earlier this term, the Year 10 Food students took part in the FutureChef cooking competition where they had to prepare, cook and serve a high skilled, well presented main course dish for two people within a budget of £5 for both portions in one hour. They produced a wide range of dishes and, after much deliberation, the two winners of our school heat were Elsa in 10MA and Keeley in 10NE.
• Monday 2 December 2024 Art Competition Winners Thank you to Mrs Tedcastle for judging the Aid to the Church in Need Red Wednesday Art Competition. They created a piece of art from the title ‘What does Peace mean to you.’
• Friday 29 November 2024 Year 11 - Post Mock Rewards Day
• Tuesday 26 November 2024 Charity 'Do and Sixth form Year of Jubilee Introduction Our Head Boy Siyanda has raised over £200 for Aid to the Church in Need and to support the Sixth Form fundraiser, by cutting his braids off. Siyanda had been growing his hair for four years, so this was a big sacrifice to make for a very worthy cause. Well done Siyanda!
• Wednesday 20 November 2024 Coppafeel challenge to raise awareness about Breast Cancer A group of year 12 students have taken up the Coppafeel challenge to raise awareness about Breast Cancer. The students undertook training a few eeks ago, before delivering informative briefings to students reminding them that Breast Cancer can affect people of ANY age, and boys as well as girls. In addition the students have been inviting questions from students and produced a social media campaign to support their work.
• Friday 15 November 2024 Red Wednesday Activities Again, as a school community this year we are joining to support Aid to the Church in Need. On Friday we began our campaign with students being asked to put their faith into action by taking a leap of faith- jumping off an inflatable. We also did a sponsored walk- walking the distance to Eritrea. This is because we heard the story from a student in our school who was persecuted because of his faith and had to flee his country and come to Birmingham. As a school, we will Break the silence!
• Monday 11 November 2024 Remembrance Service - 11th November 2024 We celebrated a beautiful whole school remembrance service this morning. We remembered those who have gone before us and gave thanks for their sacrifices.
• Thursday 7 November 2024 Year 11 Geography Fieldwork in Kings Norton On Thursday 7th November Year 11 Geography students participated in a local fieldwork activity in Kings Norton to help them prepare for their GCSE Geography Paper 3 examination. The students worked in small groups using primary data collection methods such as environment surveys and traffic counts to assess the challenges and opportunities facing people in the suburb. As part of the course requirements the students are developing their fieldwork and investigation skills which help prepare them for university dissertations and many future career paths they may wish to undertake.
• Thursday 24 October 2024 Sixth Form Spooky Film Night Before half term, members of Student Leadership Team planned, organised and hosted a spooky movie evening to mark the end of the first half term. Students chose Jeepers Creepers to watch and enjoyed treats from the tuck shop, with profits going to the Lourdes fundraising effort. Thanks to all the students who came along to support but in particular, Head girl Meredith, Deputy Head Girls Isabela and Charis, and Student Leaders Demie and Destiny for decorating, hosting and clearing up afterwards!
• Thursday 24 October 2024 Year 7 Maths Challenge at St. Edmund Campion School On the day the students took part in various activities including a problem-solving task during which they had to use clues to determine the order in which a car race had finished, a maths relay, a codebreaker task to find a 4-digit PIN and a logic puzzle.
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