The Apllication Forms and Prospectus will be avaliable on the night

During the summer holidays the school hall had a huge makeover under the supervision of Building Services Manager Peter Fulwell. The hall which had not been decorated since the 1980s had a £7000 facelift with all wood being painted, wooden floor being sanded and polished, new blinds, new drapes, 250 new chairs and new fixtures. All this was made possible by sponsorship from Now Education. 

The new hall has been named The Father Michael Knight Assembly Hall after Father Knight’s dedicated commitment and support to St Edmund Campion School for over 35 years.

Father Michael Knight of St Gerard’s parish Castle Vale will be in attendance to officially open the school hall.

This year will be extra special with the Archbishop celebrating Mass with our community. For the school Father Knight embodies what a true Campionite should be.

Naming the new hall after him and celebrating his service to our school is very much deserved and we are extremely grateful to him for his support over the years.

The Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales wish to re-establish the practice of Friday Abstinence beginning on 16 September 2011.  This may help us to renew our understanding about the importance of penance and self-denial in the Christian Life.  Every Friday is set aside as a special day, as it is the day of the suffering and death of the Lord.

 The Bishops believe it is important that all the faithful again be united in a common, identifiable act of Friday Penance because it is part of common witness in our society today.  The law of the Church requires Catholics on Fridays to abstain from meat or some other form of food or to observe some other form of penance.  In order for our community to participate the School Canteen will no longer provide meat on the menu on Fridays.

Campion achieved the best every examination results at GCSE. 

Campion are celebrating today having achieved the school’s best ever examination results with almost 70% of students achieving 5 A – C Grades  with over 50% achieving 5 A – C Grades with English and Maths.  It is particularly pleasing that almost 70% of students achieved at least a ‘C’ grade in English and almost 60% in Maths.  The school has once again also increased the number of A* and A Grades achieved by the students who have all worked very hard this year.  The school is particularly delighted with the Y9 students who all entered the GCSE Statistics two years early as 52% of students achieved a C grade or higher with many achieving A and B Grades. 

Notable successes include: Zola Maboyi who achieved 12 A Grades with three at A*.  Sandra Porteous  achieved 10 Grade A’s including three at A*.  Shanae Munn achieved 8 Grade A’s including two A*.  Eilish Staunton achieved 9 Grade A with one A*.  The school is particularly pleased with the Grades achieved by students following vocational courses.

Mrs Steele would like to thank the students for their tremendous hard work as well as the staff and parents who have supported them so well.  This has been a real team effort. 

PRESS RELEASE – 18 AUGUST 2011

At St Edmund Campion we are delighted with our ‘A’ Level results and particularly our excellent A2 results with over 99% of students’ passing all of their ‘A’ Levels with almost 50% of all entries at ‘A’ and ‘B’ Grades.