Career Academy Graduation
Last week saw the culmination of two years’ work with eight of St.Chad’s 6th Form graduating as Career Academy Business graduates at a prestigious ceremony at the magnificent Manchester Town Hall. Leaders of business, industry and commerce were there to celebrate the achievements of students across the North West. What was particularly pleasing was that St.Chad’s had as many, and in the majority of cases, more students graduating than colleges that have hundreds more students than we have. This is a great testament to the time and effort Ms McLean and Mrs Hamill have put into the programme. The quality internships, guru lectures, business mentors and the visits our students have had will give them a real advantage in the future and will be a real benefit on their CVs. We are delighted that next year not only will St.Chad’s continue to be an Academy of Business but we are also launching our Science and Innovation Academy in June for next year’s students – we will be the first Science and Innovation Academy in the North West! This is yet another reason for Year 11 students staying on into our 6th Form.
Medal Success
Three pupils representing St Chad’s High School attended The Merseyside Schools Athletics Championships at Wavertree Athletics Track on Thursday 10th May. The championships, open to those with a physical disability, gave each pupil the opportunity to compete against others of a similar ability in a number of events.
Our athletes rose to the challenge bringing home eight medals between them. The day was enjoyed by all.
Olivia Shaw yr8 commented, ‘The day was fun and I can’t wait to compete again next year. Everyone has said how proud they are of me’.
Ryan McGill, yr9 who achieved Bronze in the wheelchair slalom was pleased with his efforts but tells us, ‘I’m going for gold next year!’
We would all like to say congratulations to our Athletes. A special thank you must go to James Randles yr9, whose help and support throughout the day was invaluable.
Motto Winner!
St.Chad's uses its Mission Statement to guide us in our day-to-day work and our long-term planning. As a school we felt that we also needed a shorter motto that sums up what we are as a school and therefore started a competition, organised by Mr Tobin and Ms Down, for students to write one. This was a real challenge as the word limit was set at seven . However, as always our students rose to the challenge and we had over two hundred entries! We had a careful voting process where all students, staff and governors could vote for their favourite motto and at last night's governors' meeting we confirmed that Georgia McDonald in Year 10 (pictured) was the worthy winner - this is a real achievement as the quality of the mottos was superb. Not only does Georgia's motto sum up everything we stand for as a school but Georgia's thoughts behind creating her motto express, more effectively than I could, the experience our students have at St.Chad's. Her thoughts, which she submitted with her entry, are printed below. Well done, Georgia!
"During my time at St.Chad's, I have been taught to strive for excellence in all that I do. We are taught to tell the truth and expect the truth from others. We are praised in school for our good doings and I like to praise others in the same way. I have been very happy in school and happiness helps us to achieve. We are all treated as equals at St.Chad's regardless of race and ability. Equality brings us all together as one. We have faith in our own ability and faith in one another."
Pictured is Georgia receiving her new iPad as a prize for her winning Motto entry.
The A*/A Team!
A remarkable 12% of St.Chad's Year 11 students achieved the highest possible A*/A grades for what is arguably the hardest subject in which to do so - Mathematics! To add to the achievement the GCSE Maths grades were achieved in the February examination, five months before the completion of the course! One of the students achieved 99% of the marks available, narrowly missing the nationally very rare 100% - all of this on the Higher Level paper! These results follow on closely from the very high number of A grades achieved by our 6th Formers across a number of A Level subjects. This again shows how we try to ensure the highest possible grades for all our students. Praise must go to all students, the Maths department, led by Mrs Smith, and the support we get from parents and carers - well done to you all!
