St Mary's College, Wallasey

Coordinates: 53°25′30″N 3°03′50″W / 53.425°N 3.064°W / 53.425; -3.064

St Mary's Catholic College ... A Voluntary Aided Academy
Motto Christ Within Us All - Aspire Not To Have More But To be More - Archbishop Romero
Established 2016
Type Academy
Religion Roman Catholic
Headteacher Mr A Boyle / Mr T Quinn
Location Wallasey Village
Wallasey
Merseyside
CH45 3LN
England
DfE URN 105110 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Students 1,450
Gender Co-educational
Ages 11–18
Colours Primarily blue with a yellow badge.[1]
Years 7-10 each have a different colour of the school motto written on the badge:
Year 7 - red
Year 8 - blue
Year 9 - purple
Year 10 - green
Website St Mary's Catholic College

St Mary's Catholic College (SMC) is a Catholic secondary school located in Wallasey, Wirral, in North West England. St Mary's is one of four Catholic secondary schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. The others are St Anselm's College, St John Plessington Catholic College and Upton Hall School FCJ.

St Mary's is a Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in Wallasey, Wirral, England.

St Mary's Catholic College (SMC) is part of St John Plessington Catholic College (SJP) and work in very close relationship to further both schools.

Pastoral Care

There are numerous pastoral systems in place in SMC which care for a student's college life. The two most notable pastoral system are the form and year group systems. Each year group comprises eight forms which are each named after one of the forty catholic martyrs of England and Wales and then divided up into two half year groups named Alpha and Beta. These eight forms are:

Alpha Half Year:

Beta Half Year:

House System:

As well as the year group system, there is also a house system. Every student in the school is placed into one of six houses which are named after saints or prominent Catholic figures. These houses are:

The school also enables and encourages students to report incidents of bullying, theft, crime or any unwanted behaviour in confidence to their school 24 hours a day via the TextSomeone system the school has introduced, along with the CallParents and Truancy Call systems, introduced to free up staff time usually consumed with administrative tasks.

Notable former pupils

Campus

Over the last few years a £12.5 million building programme has taken place at St. Mary's. This has physically almost doubled the accommodation size of the whole school. The school can now deal comfortably with rising pupil numbers due to its increasing popularity. This building programme has also addressed all of the accommodation shortfalls highlighted in the Ofsted report of March 2002.

In April 2003 the Science and Technology Building opened, along with a new school chapel, extended library, Sixth form common room and study base, extra classrooms and two computer resource bases.

In May 2004 the new Arts Block was opened, in time for the school to become a Specialist College for the Arts in September. There were two new drama studios, a fully equipped dance studio, three art rooms, two new computer rooms and five additional classrooms. Our Music Department now has its own recording studio and soundproof practice rooms. " The current buildings' capacity accommodates 1654 students. Eight forms of entry and an anticipated sixth form roll of 300 +.

It includes 19 new classrooms (16 general and 3 Design and Technology), larger PE changing rooms, expanded and upgraded office/reception areas, improved access for students with limited mobility, three refurbished laboratories, and more dining room space.

In 2018 the school removed a wall in front of the girls' toilets to cut down on juvenile delinquency; in response parents pulled their children out of school and complained.[2]

Significant events

On 1 December 2011, students from St. Mary's College were invited to perform for HM The Queen and HM The Duke of Edinburgh when they officially opened the Floral Pavilion in New Brighton.[3]

On 1 November 2016, St Mary's Catholic College became an academy. St Mary's Catholic College...A Voluntary Aided Academy.

References

  1. ↑ Uniform and Equipment.
    St Mary's Catholic College.
  2. ↑ Butcher, Ryan. "Parents keep children at home in protest after school removes wall from front of girls' toilets". The Independent. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  3. ↑ http://www.wirral.gov.uk/news/02-12-2011/warm-wirral-welcome-her-majesty-queen-and-his-royal-highness-duke-edinburgh
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