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We Will Rock You Lenten Liturgy Lenten Charities Sixth Form Events Year 9 Careers Fair Year 10 Football Result Towers Trip Trampolining

Rewards Day Trips Summer Assembly Sports Day Y13 Leavers Meal

Twenty six students competed in the annual City Gymnastics Competition at Highfield’s School. It was an excellent day and all their hard work paid off as many of them came away with medals.

Novice Section Results: Floor Ashleigh Gooden – Bronze, Amelia Beet – Silver, Rebecca Butler & Josh Dodd-Matthews – Gold Vault Christina Clifton & Rebecca Butler – Bronze, Ashleigh Gooden & Stefano Okonkwo – Silver, Lysia Bayley – Gold Overall Stefano Okonkwo – Bronze, Ashleigh Gooden – Silver, Rebecca Butler – Gold

In the City Trampolining Compe-tition medallists included: Lisa Spratt—Bronze in the ad-vanced section, Lysia Bayley—Silver in the inter-mediate section Molly-Anne Porter—Gold in the beginner section.

By Jan Delos Santos

The joint production of "We Will Rock You", was per-formed by the students from both St Edmund's Catholic Academy and St Peter’s Colle-giate School.

The event occurred between Tuesday 7 March and Friday 10 March. After rehearsing continu-ously for six months, the students were able to present the perfor-mance, a futuristic musi-cal, including songs from the leg-endary band, Queen, to full audi-ences each night. Set in a bleach-white future, the story follows a young man called Galileo as he rebels against the law which for-bade any kind of musical instru-ments.

Students from Year 7 all the way up to Sixth Form have all worked incredibly hard to pull off amaz-ing choreographies; singing, dancing and acting throughout - often all three at once! Students

also took part backstage with a live band and a tech team over-seeing the lights, set and mics. Jessica Divincenzo, a Year 8 stu-dent at St Edmund’s was part of the chorus, taking part in the group singing and dancing . When interviewed, she said that her fa-vourite song to perform was, “Killer Queen.” Another student, Tanisha Parekh in Year 10 at St Peter’s was in the principal role as half of Khashog-gi. She said, “I absolutely love Sev-en Seas of Rhye, the choreogra-phy is flawless!”

The performances were a success on every night, with 600 tickets sold in total. To share the produc-tion with others, the last two nights were filmed and the DVDs will be available to purchase very soon.

A Rocking Performance

Cup Glory By Kyle Hand

The Year 10 football team faced off against Heath Park and finished as the victors of the U15 Cup, with a final score of 5-2, hosted at the Wolver-hampton Wanderer’s Acade-my.

In the first half Heath Park were putting pressure on the team breaking up the flow, when Lewis Richards stepped in and scored the first goal of the match just be-fore half time. St Edmund’s con-tinued to play well against a well organised Heath Park team. Lewis made a great play with Ali Rahemi and scored his hat trick. He said: “It was well worth it and it felt great to be apart of the team.”

St Edmund’s continued to play

their game and ending with both Ali and Dominik scoring one goal and finishing the match with a 5-2 win.

Bringing home the cup, captain Ali said “ Everyone did an out-standing job and we had supportive fans who backed us up all the way.” which Mr Soh-ker agrees by him saying “ This was a spirited performance from a talented group of players that were determined and committed representing the Academy in the best way that culminated in a great win to bring the cup home.”

By Will Rowley

From scavenging in the leaves to scouting at tremendous heights the Year 8 students challenged their fears in their trip to Towers. Towers is located in Capel Curig in North Wales where many of the students were challenged to their limits with terrifying obsta-cles such as mountain walking, orienteering, mining, kayaking and canoeing. The instructors were quoted as saying that, “ They were a talent-ed group,” and Mrs Cartlidge was also quoted as saying that, “ we had an excellent week.” After all this, the Year 8 students can now finally take a rest and return to

their normal lesson cycle and the teachers can look forward to the next visit to Towers. Many of the Year 8 students have come back from their trip with happy and unforgettable memories of their fierce adventure, Jay Deakin said that, “it was great and it was an exciting experience”

Towers Trip

Gymnastics Excellence

Food Tech Module

Year 11 have been tasked with a new assignment by food technology teacher Mrs Bates - to cook two dishes which would be ideally featured in a traditional birthday meal. Stu-dents will have to present their food as though they were to have their food featured in a magazine.

Mrs Bates has told the Campion Chronicle that the assignment in question is a Unit 4 assess-ment in the NCFE level 2 food and cookery course, which is a vocational course at GCSE level taken in Year 11. She hopes that in doing this course stu-dents will be inspired to take a career involving cooking, such as a food retailer, a restaurant manager or even a personal trainer.

Alton Castle Retreat

On Monday 23 January, Mr McArdle, Mrs Ferris and Mrs Badham went to Alton Castle in Staffordshire, along with 35 students from Year 7 and 8. While they were there, stu-dents from Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School, Birmingham shared the retreat with them. The theme of the retreat, ‘Who am I?’.

There were many activities such as trekking, bike riding, archery, survival skills and stu-dents even dared to venture around an adventure course. The students attended Mass and some of the students even Altar served, read and partici-pated in the offertory. Every-one enjoyed themselves and the Academy has booked to re-turn next year.

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February and March were busy days for the Sixth For-mers as they organised chari-ty activities for St. Valentine’s Day and Lent.

On Monday 6 March, 12AB lead a bingo session to raise money for the Lent charities. Many thanks to the fantastic people running this event This brilliant team effort managed to raise a lot of money. “It was a fun experience and eve-ryone came together as a family.” said Shaan Sodhi and some of the other students which took part. The lucky student to win a prize of 2 chocolate boxes was Harley Gibbons.

For Valentine’s Day it was Year 13s turn to take over. The “day of

By Bethany Walters

A Staff vs Student Tug of War and a Mile Coin challenge were two of the inventive ways Sixth Formers have raised money for Lent.

12HM aimed to collect 64,000 coins, which end to end on the tennis court, would be one mile long. While they fell just short, they managed to raise a total of £80.00.

On Friday 17 March, 12BC organ-ised a tug of war event that in-cluded 4 teams: male teachers, male students, female teachers and female students. A large crowed watched the spectacle. Overall they raised over £51.00. Miss Roach, Head of Sixth Form, said: “Georgia Everiss was the main organiser and she did a bril-

By Yu Ting Xue

On Friday 7 April the whole school congregated and cele-brated the Lenten Mass. It is all about Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter, when the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jeru-salem is celebrated in many Christian churches by processions in which palm fronds are carried.

Lent is important to Catholic peo-ple because Jesus lived without food and drink for 40 days and was tested by Satan. Catholics pray, fast, contemplate, and en

gage in acts of spiritual self-discipline. Catholics do these things because Easter, which cele-brates the Resurrection of Christ, is the greatest Holy Day of the Christian year and Catholics have recognized that it is appropriate to prepare for such a holy day by engaging in such disciplines.

The school recommended the stu-dent to give up something to sup-port Lent. But also Mrs Hughes said ” It is not all about giving but also supporting others. ”

By Jenisha Patel & Alishya Jose

Famous national companies and universities took part in St Edmund’s first ever in house career fair.

Businesses and organisations, in-cluding the NHS, The Army and the University of Wolverhampton, took over the Sports Hall on Wednesday 25 January. Organ-ised by careers expert and advi-sor Carol Codner, the event al-lowed Years 9 and 10 to explore their career options and find out more information about different jobs and career paths.

Exhibitors gave out brochures and advice to the students in-forming them on their choices and paths to lead on into the fu-ture. Students learnt about the organisations that specialise in specific things for example music and performing arts. Mr Perkins, Head of Year 9, said: “I was very impressed about how Year 9 con-

ducted themselves, they were very well behaved and made the best of opportunity to speak with prestigious companies and colleg-es.”

Careers Fair

love” was a day of success. Year 13s creativity was put to the test and students were able to take pic-tures with the giant heart, for a fee.

liant job. Thank to all the students who came out to support this event for the Lenten charities. 12HM also did a fantastic effort to collect so many coins.”

Lenten call to help others Tug of war raises funds

Hearts for charity

SF prepare for life after school By Jenisha Patel & Alishya Jose

On P.D. Day, Sixth Formers were informed about universi-ties and the future. They also had fun cooking and gaining experience for the future.

Mr Moorhouse visited with advice and support towards their ca-reers. The reason he came was “when I was in industry one of the main issues was students would come in, not ready for work”. So when Mr Moorhouse retired, his role became to inform the stu-dents about engineering, compu-ting and interview preparation

Miss Bates organised a fun oppor-tunity for Year 13 to cook a dish. Miss Bates said, “I think it is ben-eficial because the students can learn to cook for themselves and not to rely on fast food all the time.” One of the Sixth Formers, William Springthorpe, said “It's a good preparation for the future leading into university.”

By Iyla Notrantonio-Banga

As pictured representatives from the Army and from Juniper were amongst some of the 25 organisa-tions at the careers fair.