On Friday 6th January all students at Painsley Catholic College participated in a Pastoral/Citizenship day focusing on key areas of the PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education), Citizenship and work related learning curriculum.

Year 7 students explored issues of discrimination and diversity in terms of ability, gender, sexuality and race. Students participated in a carousel of activities and workshops related to the different diversity themes. Painsley Catholic College would like to thank Kara Ellis for spending the day with them and sharing her personal reflections on disability.

Year 8 students looked at slavery issues in the world today and the work of the....

Money talks for students at Painsley Catholic College, Cheadle, after volunteers from Britannia - part of The Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) - became teachers for the day, bringing experience of the financial sector into the classroom and helping students make sense of money matters.

On Wednesday (14 December), a team of eight volunteers swapped the banking-hall for the classroom to deliver its award winning Fit4Finance programme to the school's fifteen and sixteen year olds.

Interactive sessions and financially-themed board-games engaged more than 170 students on the day, using real-life examples to simplify the financial issues that young people face.   ....

As part of their Citizenship and PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education) programme this year, Year 7 students at Painsley Catholic College have been taking part in the Salvation Army Christmas Present Appeal. This appeal aims to collect presents to be distributed to children in the Stoke-on-Trent area who otherwise would not be receiving gifts this Christmas. Students, either individually or with a friend, chose a gift tag which gave the age of the child for whom the gift was for and then bought a present for that person. From the moment the letters and gift tags were sent home the response was fantastic. Gifts came into school everyday. Amongst the offerings were a guitar,....

Behjat Omer Abdulla, an artist and asylum seeker from Iraq worked with Year 9 students, who have chosen art as an option, at Painsley recently. They spent 2 days drawing portraits of themselves and others in the group, investigating the theme of identity. They were each given a number and experienced what it must have been like to be considered, not as a person with his or her own identity and personality, but purely as a statistic.

The students thoroughly enjoyed the 2 days and made exceptional progress with drawing using graphite powder, producing amazing results.

Painsley Catholic College shared in the season of goodwill this week as

senior citizens of the local community were invited to the school for its annual

Christmas party.

When they arrived in school they were warmly greeted by students from the ‘Reach Out in the Community with Care and Kindness’ scheme. The afternoon was very busy, full of festive activities. The music was provided by the school’s musical groups and the Food Technology department prepared the food.

Mrs Pat Sowter, Lay Chaplain, who co-ordinates the programme, commented that, “This year has been a great success. It is important to share a positive exp....

Painsley Catholic College celebrated its annual Christmas supper and concerts this week in its usual festive, heart-warming manner.

The concerts, which took place over two nights, included traditional Christmas Carols and pieces played by the College’s Wind Band as well as performances by talented groups such as the Orchestra, Jazz Band, String Group, and Sax Group.

The College choir was joined by the Year 7 choir who entertained the audience with a variety of songs. The audience was also treated to drama performances from the Year 10 GCSE Drama students.

Mrs Tara Thorn, Head of Creative Arts said “The concerts have been filled with a wide variet....

On Thursday 17th November Year 4 pupils from their feeder primary schools visited Painsley Catholic College’s Modern Foreign Languages department to participate in the 5th annual “Celebration of Languages Day.” This year the language chosen was German. The idea of the day is to give Year 4 pupils the chance to immerse themselves for a morning/afternoon in a Modern Foreign Language using fun leaning activities. Each pupil had the opportunity to learn a song about being a foreigner, which all pupils then sang together in the hall at the end of the session. Another activity was to learn to introduce themselves to a pupil from another school in German and some pupils were even brave eno....

Year 9 students from Painsley Catholic College, in conjunction with students from our Sixth Form at the Moorlands Sixth Form Centre and pupils from the primary feeder schools, have donated over 200 boxes filled with toys, jewellery, sports equipment and sweets to the Operation Christmas Child campaign. The scheme is run by the Samaritan’s Purse, to allow underprivileged children to enjoy the Christmas festivities this year. The appeal will send the decorated shoeboxes to children all over the world.

Miss Siobhan Timms, who co-ordinated the project at Painsley and the other schools, is thrilled by the response from the students and looks forward to repeating this successful proje....

Painsley Catholic College focussed upon charity work this week as it enjoyed its annual Harvest festival; students having collected food and distributed it to people in the local community.

The festival falls in line with the annual Family Fast Day, where some students participated in a twenty-four hour fast for CAFOD, a charity committed to helping developing countries. The school raised more than £300 for this worthy cause.

Year 7 students at Painsley Catholic College were recently presented with a copy of the New Testament from the Gideons’ International Society.

The Gideons’ Society distributed the Bibles to help share the Christian message and recognises the importance of placing a Bible into the hands of individuals. Each student in Year 7 received a Book for their own personal use and new members of Staff also received a Bible from Mr & Mrs Egerton.