Who we are
We are a fellowship of Catholic schools, based within the Diocese of Shrewsbury, whose collective purpose is to deliver exceptional Catholic education to all in our community. Our story began in April 2013, when Saint Paul’s Catholic High School joined with St Anthony’s Catholic Primary School and Ss John Fisher and Thomas More Catholic Primary School to form the Wythenshawe Catholic Academy Trust.
The three schools had already been working closely together for a number of years and the creation of the Trust formalised the relationship. In December 2013, St Elizabeth’s Catholic Primary School joined the Trust. In more recent years, the Trust has established a Trust Central Team to provide core business functions to ensure that we comply with our statutory responsibilities and support the operations and educational performance of our academies.
By developing an efficient and effective infrastructure across the Trust, we enable our schools to focus on their core purpose of providing an exceptional Catholic education. In doing so, we believe we open doors of opportunity and fulfil our mission as educators by drawing “young people to what is good, beautiful and true” (Pope Francis).
As the Trust continues to develop, with our fellowship of schools successes and an eye to the future, the Trust was renamed to Corpus Christi Catholic Academy Trust and is looking forward to working with more schools both within and outside the Wythenshawe area.
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Bishop Mark Davies
Member
Mark Davies is a British Roman Catholic prelate. He is the 11th Bishop of the Diocese of Shrewsbury in the Province of Birmingham, England.
Sacha Humphries
CEO
Since qualifying as a teacher, Sacha Humphries has worked exclusively in Catholic Education and developed a passion for school improvement becoming a National Leader of Education. As Headteacher of Saint Mary’s in Congleton, she led the school to secure an Outstanding judgement from Ofsted in 2017. Her specialisms include assessment, SEND, subject leadership, literacy, MFL and implementing systems to secure accountability.
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Bishop Mark Davies
Member
Mark Davies is a British Roman Catholic prelate. He is the 11th Bishop of the Diocese of Shrewsbury in the Province of Birmingham, England.
Pat Adams
Chair of Directors
Sacha Humphries
CEO
Since qualifying as a teacher, Sacha Humphries has worked exclusively in Catholic Education and developed a passion for school improvement becoming a National Leader of Education. As Headteacher of Saint Mary’s in Congleton, she led the school to secure an Outstanding judgement from Ofsted in 2017. Her specialisms include assessment, SEND, subject leadership, literacy, MFL and implementing systems to secure accountability.
Bishop Mark Davies, Member
Mark Davies is a British Roman Catholic prelate. He is the 11th Bishop of the Diocese of Shrewsbury in the Province of Birmingham, England.
Pat Adams, Chair of Directors
Sacha Humphries, CEO
Since qualifying as a teacher, Sacha Humphries has worked exclusively in Catholic Education and developed a passion for school improvement becoming a National Leader of Education. As Headteacher of Saint Mary’s in Congleton, she led the school to secure an Outstanding judgement from Ofsted in 2017. Her specialisms include assessment, SEND, subject leadership, literacy, MFL and implementing systems to secure accountability.
Corpus Christi Catholic Academy Trust,
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St Anthony’s
Sending my daughter to St Anthony’s is the best decision I made for both me and my daughter. The teachers and staff in this school cannot do enough for the children. I just want to thank all of the staff again for all the help my daughter has received over the last 5 years” –
Parent – St Anthony’s
Praise St Anthony’s
I cannot praise St Anthony’s staff enough for all of their hard work and commitment to my children. I feel that I made the best decision keeping them in a school where they are truly happy and can be themselves”
Parent – St Anthony’s
Amazing Safeguarding Team
We have an amazing safeguarding team that really help us if we need to talk to someone”
Year 8 Pupil – Saint Paul’s
The Nurture Room
The Nurture room is an outstanding safe space for children that need time out and extra support. Arlo the nurture dog is an amazing asset to the school”
Parent – St Anthony’s
Safety and Wellbeing
The safety and wellbeing of our pupils has been at the forefront of everything we have done during lock down and reopening. In my opinion the safeguarding team, and school as a whole, have gone above and beyond in their efforts in this area”
Staff Member – Ss John Fisher & Thomas More
Welfare
It was very reassuring that staff conducted welfare calls to families during the long lockdown period. It was lovely that staff not only asked about the children, but also considered the welfare of the parents too, taking the time to ask how I was coping and if there was anything the school could do to help”
Parent – St Anthony’s
Saint Paul's
My son has really come a long way after being at Saint Paul’s and his little sister is looking forward to going Saint Paul’s next year”
Parent – Saint Paul’s
Fantastic School
The school have been fantastic during this pandemic, we are very lucky to have a wonderful dedicated headteacher and staff”
Parent – St Elizabeth’s
Lockdown
During lockdowns, you worked incredibly hard to provide an education and you cared so much that you called home to check that not only my son was ok but the rest of the family too”
Parent – Saint Paul’s