Some of our SVP team today, visited the food bank in Hinckley and donated the food collected during Advent. While there, they helped sort the items and took the time to check the dates on tinned food to ensure everything was still in date. They also listened attentively to how the food bank operates and … Continue reading Foodbank

Great fun was had by all leading up to our annual Wet the Teacher competition.  Enjoy the video! https://www.saint-martins.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2024/12/Wtt-Final-2024-Optimised-2.mp4

Meet the Team’s St Therese of Liseux St Francis of Assisi St Martin of Tours St Vincent de Paul Blessed Carlo Acutis Our Chaplaincy Team are a group of enthusiastic students from Year 7-11. Together, they enrich the Catholic Life of our school by leading and preparing acts of worship, Masses, organising fundraising, representing the … Continue reading Meet our SVPs

Last Thursday evening we held our annual Carol Service at St Peter's Catholic Church. The music was beautiful and added to everyone's' Christmas spirit! Thanks to Miss Clensy and Miss Clarke, those who helped and especially those who sang in the beautiful choirs on the evening.

In November we asked for book donations for our library, in memory of a loved one.  We had a fantastic response, with some lovely books donated. Mrs Turvey kindly designed a book plate. The messages sent to Mrs Wells, our Librarian, have been entered into the inside book cover, it has been a very emotional experience … Continue reading Memory of a loved one….

A little bit of cheer and happiness into the community by visiting some of our local residential care homes in Barwell and Earl Shilton- singing Christmas Carols. Such a beautiful and heart warming day #chaplaincy #communityoutreach #catholiclife #choir

Our choir had the pleasure of joining other schools on Friday 6th December at the Menphys Christmas Carol Concert at De Montfort Hall.  It was a lovely evening enjoyed by all.

Celebrating the successes of our Class of 2024  Students were invited along with their parents/carers to celebrate their achievements and collect their GCSE certificates. It was a pleasure to see their familiar faces again During the evening we awarded the highest achieving student for all subjects as well as endeavour for the the students who … Continue reading Prize Giving – Class of 2024

Red Wednesday is an annual event organised by Aid to the Church in Need. Red Wednesday highlights the suffering experienced by Christians (and people of other faiths) who are persecuted or discriminated against because of their faith or beliefs. Many churches, parishes, schools and communities across the world mark Red Wednesday through special events, activities … Continue reading RED Wednesday

A huge well done to our Dance Team 2024 who worked so hard and had an amazing time performing together at the Albany Theatre in Coventry.

Last week our year 11 boys had a visit from Ben, an Ambassador for the OddBalls charity to educate and raise awareness of Testicular Cancer. Ben did a fantastic job of making our students feel at ease whilst discussing a very difficult topic. Our students found the presentation very informative, leaving with a new set … Continue reading Oddballs

Thank you to Bishop Patrick and the pupils of St Elizabeth's Catholic Voluntary Academy, Belper for leading us in the Rosary for peace on this special Feast Day. We were inspired to write our Rosary tweets based on your beautiful liturgy this morning. Thank you from the students at Saint Martin's Catholic Academy. Diocese of … Continue reading Feast Day

💚 CAFOD’S HARVEST FAST DAY 💚 Students have been raising funds and awareness for CAFOD’S valuable development work all over the world by selling little green bows to pin on blazers for 50p. CAFOD Community St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Multi-Academy Trust

We celebrated out 75th anniversary at the end of June. It was a really special day where we opened up our school for the whole community, especially for those past pupils and teachers from Saint Martin’s. It was a real pleasure to meet former students who had been at Saint Martin's as far back as … Continue reading Celebrating 75 years of Catholic Education

A huge thank you to Julz and Amy from SVP (St Vincent de Paul Society) for spending an afternoon with us. During Year 8 & 9 assembly, our students had a chance to discuss what they would like to address around the school and the local community, a few of these topics popped up… Poverty … Continue reading SVP

On Thursday 26th September, we hosted a cake sale to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Last week we sold popcorn at break and lunch to support our colleague from Hastings High School who has been diagnosed with glioblastoma and is raising funds for treatment. Thank you to our students for being so generous. We raised £140.

Recently some of our Year 8 students from Divinity were filmed by Chris Noonan as part of a national campaign for Aid to the Church in need for Red Wednesday. We are super proud of all their hard work and commitment for doing this.

As part of our Bootcamp week, Year 7 have been learning more about our remarkable local history with a walk to the Battle of Bosworth Battlefield site. Thanks to Mr and Mrs Murphy who returned to lead our pupils on this trip.

There was a buzz of celebration this morning at Saint Martin’s, with the excited students and their families celebrating some really impressive GCSE results. We are projected to have a record Progress 8 score this year (The main measure that schools have to show how much academic progress pupils have made since starting in Year … Continue reading GCSE Results 2024

We are delighted to have officially opened our new science lab! After a huge project that involved installing a mammoth iron girder to hold up the first floor, the room is now full of young scientists experimenting and learning.

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Saint Martin's would like to thank all of our families that have kindly donated toys for this year's Hinckley & Bosworth Toy Appeal. We were overwhelmed by our community's generosity and this will hopefully make Christmas a little happier for some children this year. Thank you, Saint Martin's Pastoral Team

Year 9 girls played South Charnwood High School in the Hinckley and Bosworth finals. The girls dominated the match winning 36-7. Kate B was player of the match. This now means that Year 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 are all Hinckley and Bosworth Champions with 2 of our teams already representing Leicestershire in February … Continue reading Netball Finalists

December - Music Mark 2023-2024 In recognition of a commitment to providing a high quality music education for all children and young people.

We had a great time at Leicestershire music hubs ‘Big Sing’ event.

December - It's the first week of Advent and our theme of the week is Hope! Hope is not just about wishing - it's about waiting-trusting- enduring. We pray you find hope today! Well done to year 8 for leading this week’s celebration of the word. @stthomasaquinascmat #travellingcrib #cribinourcrib

December - One of our Year 7 students has been very busy outside of school working on his passion for writing, reading and all things drama! Jacob entered a short play competition at the Old Rep Theatre in Birmingham and he was one of the winners! Jacob also wrote a panto which was performed locally … Continue reading Competition Winner – Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham

December - A massive well done to all of the Menphys singers. They sang brilliantly on Friday night!

November 2023 - Our Y7 boys football team travelled to Nicholas Chamberlaine in Bedworth, for the Warwickshire Cup first round. The game was end to end, losing 1-0 to begin, then leveling through a Max M penalty 1-1, then losing again 2–1 and right at the end last kick of the game Olly F equalises. … Continue reading Football win…

November 2023 - Our U16 netball team went to Leicester Grammar to play the next round of the county championships. In the semi’s they played Loughborough girls. They started very strong, the match going goal for goal, however the final score was 9-5 to us after a strong last 2 minutes of the game. This … Continue reading Netballers through to Regionals…

November 2023 - We had a wonderful quarter finals showcasing fabulous students along with the other three secondary schools across our CMAT. My thanks to English Martyrs’ for hosting and providing lunch, to Mr King for preparing the students and to the judges for their hard work in trying to judge such great speeches!

Today we celebrated our Feast day. Saint Martin was a remarkable person who dedicated his life to serve God and others. We celebrated his life and example with Mass for the school. There was some beautiful singing, thank you to all those who helped prepare the mass.  To find more about his life follow the … Continue reading The Feast of Saint Martin de Porres – 3rd November

Saint Martin's, Stoke Golding had our best ever GCSE progress results (Published this term). The Progress 8 measure is the main measure for outcomes at GCSE and we achieved our best ever result last summer. Our school was +0.54 putting us amongst the highest achieving schools in the country. Well done to all the pupils … Continue reading Best ever GCSE results…

September - We were really delighted to have Guillem Balague visiting us on Monday to give a brilliant talk to Saint Martin's students. For those not in the know...... Guillem is a famous Spanish football journalist, author, and TV football pundit appearing on Sky Sport, the BBC and more. He also wrote Messi's biography!

Calling all Makers and Bakers!!! This year to support our Christmas Fundraising we are hosing our first ever Christmas Craft Market on Saturday 2nd December. Please contact the school for more details about hiring a stall for this event.

September - Great start for the Year 11 girls tonight! The girs played 2 matches against Redmoor and Hastings, winning both 31-3 and 27-12. Erin S was player of the match for both matches. Well done girls!

We have had a lovely morning full of excitement and celebrations with so many pupils performing above expectations. We are incredibly proud of our pupils who have, like all pupils, had a hugely disrupted education but never-the-less, have overcome these challenges and performed exceptionally well. Over 88% of pupils achieved a grade 4 or above … Continue reading GCSE Results 2023