St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School

St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School is a centre of secondary education in Ashton-in-Makerfield in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It has around 1200 pupils and is both a Leading Edge school and a specialist Technology and Music College. It is also the first Secondary School in the Wigan Borough to receive the Green Flag Award. It is in the Catholic parish of St Oswald's with most pupils coming from Haydock English Martyrs Catholic Primary School Haydock, Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Hindley, St Oswald's Catholic Primary School, Ashton, and other schools in the boroughs of Wigan and St Helens. Mr Phillips is the headmaster of the school. In 2009, the school won the green flag eco-award which no other high school has. The school opened on the 21st August 1961 and was formerly known as 'Blessed Edmund Arrowsmith.' It celebrated it's Golden Jubilee of 50 years at a mass held at the Liverpool Cathedral on the 29th June 2011.

Uniform

The school's uniform consists of a bottle green blazer, white shirt, black or dark grey trousers (for boys) or grey skirt (for girls), and dark green tie with the school crest and red and light green stripes. The prefect tie consists of a red tie with a golden emblem. Shoes are black or brown.

Past pupils

Coronation Street actress Jennifer James attended the school.

Mark Edwardson - BBC North West Tonight news presenter.

David McIntosh - Gladiators star Tornado.

Andrew Hurst - manager of UK rock band My Passion attended the school.

External links

• School Website