With events coming thick and fast at St. Michael’s, Monday 23rd March saw the Tag Rugby city finals.Having qualified unbeaten the squad were in a posititive mood for the challenge ahead.However, we started slowly narrowly beating Bilston in our first game.Fortunately the players upped their games and got better and better as the tournament progressed. We qualified for the semi-finals in first place, leaving us a tricky game against Uplands! The team were outstanding running in 5 unanswered tries with Tom,Shaun and Emily finishing off magnificent build-up play from Brodey, Shay,Jude and Carys.

Our opponents in the final were St. Stephen’s – worthy finalists in their own right. We had really hit our peak and produced some breathtaking support play. At one point we managed to string 15 passes together which culminated in a winning try for Smiler! What a collective achievement from all the squad: Jude(captain),Brodey,Jake,Shaun,Hannah,Ellie,Lara,Tom,Shay,Carys,Aidan,Emily,Keeley and Tommy.

Again a huge thanks to Mandy,Sarah,Louise and Tom for transporting/supporting our children on the day. We are very lucky to have such great parents!

On Friday 20th March, St. Michael’s were invited to participate in the annual Catholic Sports Competition. We entered a football team from our year 4,5 & 6 boys and girl! The standard was high, however, our team coped well under pressure and qualified unbeaten to the semi-finals. Notably, we managed to beat St. Christopher’s of Codsall who were last year’s winners. In the Semi’s we came up against a strong St. Anthony’s team.The deadlock couldn’t be broken – with Brodey giving blood for the cause – so penalties ensued. The pressure didn’t get to Declan who calmly placed his shot in the bottom corner. Daniel saved their penalty and Finlay slotted home to put us 2-0 up in the penalty stakes. Their player placed his shot wide putting us into the final!

The final was played against Corpus Christi and was a one way affair from start to finish. Unfortunately for us their keeper was in amazing form and made save after save from Hebert  and Finlay. Emily, Jude and Jake were rock solid at the back so we needed Brodey, Gabriel and company to break the deadlock. With time ticking away we broke away. Brodey played in Finlay who passed to Hebert, who in turn laid on Declan to smash the ball home with the last kick of the game…Champions!!!

Special thanks to Mrs Cox who helped support the players and provide transport to and from the event.

On Wednesday 11th March 2015, we went to Castlecroft School.  We worked with the author David Gatward.  We explored that to create a story you have to have a character and purpose together. If you don’t, you don’t have a story!

We all enjoyed our day at Castlecroft School working with David Gatward.  We did lots of literacy activities.  One of the activities we did was describing a character with our imagination.

David sold signed copies of his book “Doom Rider” which we’re really enjoying!

By Haiden, Serena, Hari and Niamh

Key Stage 2 children, staff, parents and family members joined together with Fr Stephen to pray and to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation.  This reflective service was a special part of our Lenten preparation for Easter.

Tag Rugby Competition at Smestow School 10th March 2015.

St.Michael’s were triumphant in the Tag Rugby Competition winning all five of their matches, scoring 22 tries and conceding only 6! Our first place puts us through to the city finals on the 23rd March at Wolverhampton Rugby Club. A huge achievement against the likes of Uplands, St.Stephens, Loxdale, Castlecroft and Bilston primary schools. Congratulations to: Emily C, Keeley L, Hannah D, Lara Y, Ellie B,Carys N,Shaun D, Jude B, Jake F, Shay M, Tom Y, Tommy M, Josh T, Aidan M and Brodey M. You were all a credit to the school  and played outstanding rugby! Thank you to all the parents who provided transport and support for our children.

Year 5 invited parents to come and see their amazing Egyptian artefacts in the Egyptian Museum, which opened for the afternoon on Friday 13th February. It was a great success and many parents spent a fair chunk of their afternoon wandering around the exhibits chatting to the children. From mummies to shadufs and from canopic jars to death masks the museum had the lot. Well done Year 5.

WELL DONE YEAR 2!

These energetic boys and girls won the first round of Multi Skills athletics and will be competing again on 18th March. Good Luck!

St. Michael’s Slay Dovecotes!

Rampant St. Michael’s put Dovecotes to the sword!

By Brodey McGinn

On Wednesday 25th February, St. Michael’s Academy hosted a football match against Dovecotes Primary School. Mr Kay kindly agreed to referee the game. From the start it was clear that we would be too strong for our visitors. Within a matter of minutes we were two nil up, with goals from Declan and Gabriel. Following

several missed chances (mentioning no names!) we went three nil up when Hebert scored his first goal. He went on to score 5 more always being in the right place at the right time. Daniel was on hand to snuff out any danger to our goal. The back three of Joe, Jude and Jake were outstanding throughout the first half. Finlay and  Declan and myself kept the team forward resulting in a half time score of St. Michael’s 6, Dovecotes 0.

The second half continued in the fashion as the first. Gage Badger and Luke Evans made their debuts for the school team and were soon in the thick of the action. Alex Terry also came on and almost immediately had an opportunity to get on the score sheet. Dovecotes to their credit kept battling away and came close to scoring on a couple of occasions. Only the brilliance of our keeper Daniel kept them at bay. I managed to score, as did Alex, Joe(who had moved up front) and Finlay, however, it was the overall team performance that Mr Kay and Mr McGinn were really pleased with. The final score was St. Michaels 14 – Dovecotes 0. Joint man of the match was awarded to Daniel and Myself.