Welcome

I am delighted to be working together with you to help our students reach their potential spiritually, academically, and socially. Working together in partnership with our parishes and communities, we nurture our core values, encouraging each student’s spiritual and academic development. Working with the local and wider community is of high importance to us and community links are fully embedded into the life and work of the school and we believe they provide valuable experiences which support the curriculum and enhance our students’ learning. In line with our core values, we feel that through community projects our students will develop respect for others and care for the environment.

Summer Term

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BBC interviews students about the social media restrictions for under 16s

A BBC team spent a full day in school, working closely with Year 8 and Year 9 students to gather live reactions to the government’s social media restrictions. Throughout the day, pupils were interviewed for a range of programmes, including Newsround, BBC Radio 5 Live, Radio 4 and BBC News – click here for details.

BBC Newsround Interviews with Students

To view the BBC Newsround interviews with our pupils about the social media restrictions for under 16s click here.

Year 11 GCSE Exam Timetable

The Year 11 GCSE summer exam timetable – click here to download

Healthy Lifestyles Resources

There is lots of useful information for parents & carers in the Healthy Schools padlet including gym memberships, exercise classes, healthy eating and local activities.– click for resources, support and advice.

Free Gym

Free gym and class access for young people in high school aged 11-16 – click for full details.

‘Kids Online Safety’ campaign

The UK government has launched the ‘Kids Online Safety’ campaign to help parents and carers support their children to navigate the digital world safely and confidently. – click for details.

Managing children's digital lives

Parenting today can feel overwhelming — the Children’s Commissioner’s Managing Children’s Digital Lives guide aims to help you support your child in today’s fast-changing digital world – click for details.

The Buzz – Latest Issue

Each term we post our newsletter – The Buzz; this gives a summary of the events at Saint Paul’s together with lots of photos and outlines our plans for the months ahead. Click here to download the newsletter

Work Experience

We are looking forward to our Year 10 Work Experience Week, 22-26 June. Thank you to all those employers who are supporting us & enabling this week to happen.

Family Meal of the Week

Each week we feature a different delicious family meal designed to make a healthy budget meal – click for details.

Pinterest Safety Advice

Pinterest tends to fly under the radar but The White Hatter, a Canadian digital safety organisation, published a blog post recently after supporting 2 families whose children had shared intimate images via Pinterest’s direct messaging feature. In both cases, the parents had no idea the platform had a messaging function – click for advice.

School Uniform Donations

We are asking for donations of any school uniform items that are clean and in excellent condition for the school uniform shop. If you have any items that you would like to donate, please could you drop them off at school. Your donations will help support families within our school community. We are particularly short of blazers, skirts and P.E kit. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Free School Uniform from Wood Street Mission

The Wood Street Mission is launching its 11th SmartStart initiative, their free School Uniform Project – click for full details.

Nature for Health

The Nature for Health programme provides free gardening and nature‑based activities for Manchester residents – click for details.

Year 11 Prom

We are already looking forward to the Year 11 Prom in July – make sure you get an invite by meeting the Prom Night criteria – click for details

Celebrating our “Good” Ofsted Report

“Saint Paul’s is a welcoming and supportive community. Leaders have high expectations for all pupils, including those with special educational needs. Pupils achieve well,” report the Ofsted inspectors who recently visited Saint Paul’s Catholic High School in Wythenshawe. The school has just received a good report following the visit of Ofsted inspectors to the school.

To read the report click here
Ofsted Saint Paul’s Catholic HS – 139456 – Final Report