O God our Creator,

Your kindness has brought us the gift of a new day.

Help us to leave yesterday,

And not to covet tomorrow,

But to accept the uniqueness of today.

Macmillan Coffee Morning

Once again the school took part in the "World's Biggest Coffee Morning" and raised more than £300 for the Macmillan Cancer Support charity

Student Wins Top Essay Competition

Year 8 student, Iona, won first prize in an essay competition organised by Ampleforth College. The title of the essay was "Can we be sure God exists?"

St Therese

In school we honoured the memory of St Therese by remembering that the smallest thing done out of love is all that is required of us. We must open our hearts to God's love and then we will be able to spread this love to others.

Open night 2009

Mount St Mary's welcomed hundreds of visitors to our annual Open Evening.

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MSM Messenger

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Stephen Lawrence Award

Following an inspection by Education Leeds assessors, Mount St Mary’s has achieved The Stephen Lawrence Education Award which is presented to schools for promoting racial harmony and celebrating cultural diversity.
ICT teacher, Anees Poddar, who has led the school’s submission said:” I am very happy that we have achieved this award and I am pleased that the children have taken ownership of the whole project which is now embedded in the ethos of our school.”

“The school is a safe environment in which pupils of different cultures work together very well” Ofsted

Difference is Good

Click here to view the Diversity animation produced by students in the school's Stephen Lawrence Award working group.

Kichwamba Project 2007

Two teachers from Mount St Mary’s Catholic High School in Leeds spent their summer holiday living and working in Kichwamba, Uganda.

Click here to read about our project with Kichwamba High School in Uganda

Good Shepherd

Gloriette, Luke and Adrian presented a cheque to the Bishop at the cathedral for the Good Shepherd collection

Star footballer of the future

West Yorkshire U16 footballer, Letesha Cannonier played in the England Schools FA national final, beating Middlesex 1-0.

New Minibus

Facilities manager Mike Oliver and Year 11 pupil Patrick Selby check over the brand new, state of the art MSM minibus

Romeo and Juliet

The Manchester Actors Company performed a one hour reduced version of the play for our Year 9 students.

 
 
 

 

 

 

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Year 9 Charity

Year 9 raised £1900 for the Teenage Cancer Trust and presented a cheque to Iain Kimberley at a special assembly

Sponsored Events

Our annual sponsored events day raised money for a range of charities chosen by our students. Click here for more photos of the events

Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat

To see more photos visit the Picture Gallery

Go2Uni
Year 11 student Joe together with ex-student Daniel designed a website in conjuction with Leeds Metropolitan University which offers advice and guidance about higher education.

Year 7 Sports Competition

The prefects organised a soccer and netball competition for our new Year 7 students. See the Picture Gallery for more photos

Year 7 Mass of Welcome

The theme of the Mass was God's colour in our lives. Like the rainbow, Jesus brings colour to our lives and we reflect this colour by shining love, joy, peace, patience and goodness to others

More photos of the Welcome Mass in the Picture Gallery
 

 

More Marks for Mount St Mary's

Following a validation visit by a team from Education Leeds, Mount St Mary's High School has achieved the Leeds Inclusion Chartermark recognising the inclusive nature of the school.

For more information click here

 

Zoolab

Year 10 science students got hands-on experience of creepy crawlies courtesy of Zoolab

Year 9 Retreat

Year 9 spent a day at Trinity University College reflecting on Relationships. In the Blessed Trinity, God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit but one God. The students had three workshops based on relationship with God, with each other and with the world.

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Record GCSE Results for 2009

Students, staff and parents were yet again delighted on August 27th to see the many outstanding achievements of our Year 11 leavers.

Last year the school celebrated its best ever results - this year they were even better!

Many congratulations to our students and to their parents and teachers who all worked so hard to achieve these fantastic results.

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Lourdes 2009

17 of our students spent a week in Lourdes with Leeds Youth. They had many experiences and excelled themselves in lively singing at the Baths

London Trip

Year 9 students had a busy time in London visiting Hampton Court, Downing Street, Buckingham Palace and the Tower of London

Rock School

Sixteen star acts of the future sang, danced and played their way through auditions to win a place on one of the sell-out courses at the Leeds Rock School