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Congratulations to our Year 7 Basketball Team.
Yesterday they won through to the final of the Knowsley tournament winning the qualifying competition.
They now join the Year 8 team in the finals afternoon next Thursday at KSC. Both teams are playing HASCL in their finals.
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National & International business brands have teamed up with All Saints Catholic Centre for Learning to give our best and brightest a head start in industry. Brands including BT, Dabs.com, Ellesse, Home Bargains and Balfour Beatty have joined forces with the school to provide resources, apprenticeships and mentoring for sixth form students.
Due to changes in Government funding, our students have to face the unfortunate fact that not all of them will be able to afford to go on to university, despite 92% of last year’s sixth formers winning a place at their first-choice university.
Therefore we have have invited businesses into the classroom to show students there are other ways to become professionally qualified. We hope this will show them new pathways to success. We have invited the leaders of national brands to come in and talk to our students, mentor them and give them real-world experience.
So far, our business partners have provided real-world material for course modules, including videos and online tutorials given by directors. These companies are also offering incentives – such as laptops for recent award winners at the school – but, more importantly, a year’s mentoring with business bosses, paid summer internships and experience of the pre-Christmas rush in retail, all designed to give our students genuine insight and skills for the workplace.
In October, Steve Granite, managing director of Merseyside-based Abbey Logistics, a former All Saints student, came to spend a day with our young people, coaching them through real-world financial and marketing challenges. He offered six mentoring places and two apprenticeships with professional qualifications funded by Abbey.
He said, “I was surprised at the level of enthusiasm and the high level of business thinking at such young ages. We had a real challenge selecting the final six for mentoring and had to hold interviews with 12 students to make a final decision. Afterwards, we still could not choose six and ended up with seven students for the mentoring programme."
As part of our commitment to our students and the Kirkby community, All Saints will continue to build on these types of business relationships, to ensure more of our students have these kinds of opportunities in the future.
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All Saints Year 11 Football Team were crowned Knowsley team of the Year at the annual sports awards, at the new Knowsley Sports Park in Huyton. Sky Sports presenter Eddie Hemmings presented the award to the boys on stage and interviewed Niall Williamson and John Hughes.
The award was given as recognition for the outstanding Merseyside cup victory over Cardinal Heenan. The path to cup success saw the boys beat all rivals, which included, Kirkby Sports College, Maricourt, Halewood, Blue Coat, and Calderstones.
Guest speaker on the evening was Chris Foy, a premier league referee, who gave an insight into how he got to the top of his profession.
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