Some beautiful displays at Holy Family spotted during our SharePoint training tonight👀

Attendance is Everyone's Business 🎒🏫 💯 It was great to have Taylor onsite at Holy Family, delivering a session on the importance of good attendance and embedding a culture that attendance is everyone's business 🤝

Attendance is Everyone's Business🎒🏫💯 We’re so proud of our pupils who’ve shown fantastic attendance this month.👏 Let’s celebrate success across our Trust and aim even higher for October. Keep up the good work!

There are 18 wonderful opportunities to join our schools and central team! Whether you’re an experienced professional or just starting out, every role plays a part in supporting and inspiring children and young people.

Happy Feast of St Michael the Archangel! ✨🕊️ Today we celebrate the patron saint of one of our schools, St Michael, protector and defender of the Church. May his example inspire the whole school community to stand for truth, show courage and serve others with faith and joy.

Work With Us @StEthelbertsRCP are currently looking for an Office Manager, but don't listen to us about why this is a fantastic school to work at-listen to the staff who work there.

Providing a range of high-quality CPD opportunities for staff across our family of schools is a vital way we support them in the work they do. Look at some of the people we work with to make this happen 👀 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🔗 www.stoccat.org.uk/key-informat...

Get Involved in Governance; Make Lives Better Volunteering with us as a governor could be just the chance you need to change the world – our schools need 🫵 to support the vital work they do. Vic and Laura from our Governance Team would love to hear from you:

An important message from @CSEL_STOC to all staff working across our family of schools 💙🙏

Stop the Sunday Scrolling 🖱️ A number of our Bury schools need 🫵 to help them serve their local communities: 🙋‍♀️TA @stjosephbury 🙋‍♀️Teacher @StBernadettesrc 🙋‍♀️ Science Teacher @StGabsBury

Stop the Sunday Scrolling 🖱️ Two of our brilliant Bolton schools are looking for people to help them in the vital work that they do-will it be 🫵 ? ✋TA @StTeresasLL ✋ Office Manager @StEthelbertsRCP ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🔗https://tinyurl.com/mryv4r25

Stop the Sunday Scrolling 🖱️ We currently having the following jobs advertised at our Rochdale schools-are 🫵 going to work with us to make a positive difference in your local community?

Over the 12 hours the following job vacancies close across our family of schools and Trust Central Team. Are 🫵 going to work with us to Make Lives Better? 🙋‍♀️TA @StMarysRCRad 🙋TA @stmonicas 🙋‍♂️DT Technician @stmonicas 🙋‍♀️Safeguarding Officer @STOC_CAT

At our Start of Year Mass on 8th October, we look forward to launching a new Trust tradition: new schools joining our Trust family in the coming months will be presented with a Trust candle as a sign of their welcome🕯️

SnapSTOCS 📷: Photographs of the Week A quick look back at some real 📸 highlights from this week 🙏💙

This week our Digital Professional Learning Network gathered at @StJosephStBede with a focus on AI. A huge thank you to James from @SacredHeartRoch for his brilliant demo of SLT AI as a tool for school leaders, and to Jon from TeachMate for leading part of the session.

This week has been a fantastic one for CPD across our Trust. We’re especially grateful to @StCuthbert71099 for hosting our MFL Professional Learning Network. Find out more about the partners we work with to provide a wide range of CPD opportunities for colleagues across our Trust:

In just a few weeks, we’re looking forward to celebrating our Start of Year Mass at @StBernadettesrc ⛪️ Our Trust family now includes 22 schools—and in “STOC St Teresa of Calcutta” there are exactly 22 letters!

Over the next 2 days the following job vacancies close across our family of schools and Trust Central Team. Are 🫵 going to work with us to Make Lives Better? 🙋‍♀️TA @StMarysRCRad 🙋TA @stmonicas 🙋‍♂️DT Technician @stmonicas 🙋‍♀️Safeguarding Officer @STOC_CAT

Team Talk: Meeting the People Who Make Lives Better It’s been a pleasure this week to receive some fantastic feedback on the latest addition to our website – Team Talk.

Attendance is Everyone's Business🎒🏫💯 A quick shout out from Taylor-Regional Attendance Officer-for all of the work school staff are doing to Make Attendance Matter. It was great to bump into Taylor @SacredHeartRoch today following an attendance meeting with school leaders 🤝

Bringing history to life in such an innovative way! 🔍 Hands-on learning like this inspires curiosity and helps children connect deeply with the past. Amazing work Class 7! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ 🔗 x.com/StJosephsRCH...

It takes real courage to live as peacemakers in our world 🌍. What a powerful way to reflect on building God’s kingdom together through peace and unity. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ 🔗 x.com/daly_mrs_/st...

What a beautiful reminder that hope blossoms even in the smallest of ways! May this year be full of faith, joy and new growth for your school community. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ 🔗 x.com/StBernadette...

Every Thursday we’ll shine a spotlight on the amazing ways our schools live out our shared values. From hope, to courage, to innovation, our schools are putting faith into action in truly inspiring ways! We are continually guided by James 2:26: “Faith without works is dead.”

Earlier today we posted about the Jubilee Anchor of Hope that is currently travelling throughout our Diocese ⚓️

It was a real pleasure this week to see the Jubilee Anchor of Hope visit two of our brilliant schools-@StBernadettesrc and @michael_primary We are so proud of the work that out schools and young people are doing this year to help children have hope, dream big and dream together 🙏💙

Great to be onsite @StBernadettesrc this week, meet with the HT and get a mini tour of the amazing whole school display on Catholic Social Teaching, hearing about the work taking place to ensure that together the children learn, together they achieve and that together they grow in God's love 🙏💙

This morning it's the first session of the brand new Pupil Premium PLN, led by Steve Wren. A big thank you to @StCuthbert71099 for hosting the session🙏

Attendance is Everyone's Business🎒🏫💯 Earlier this week, our school family at Alice Ingham RC Primary School came together to discuss the schools exciting vision, children's rewards and importance of regular school attendance over a delicious breakfast!

📰 Stay Informed with the Latest from Our Trust! We’ve just refreshed the Latest News section on our website — your go-to place for updates, achievements, community stories, and important announcements from across the Trust.

Did You Know... In our Trust family we have 5 brilliant schools in Bolton, all doing amazing work to serve their local communities 🙏

We’re proud to introduce Linda and Sean, two highly valued members of our Trust Central Team, who serve as Finance Assistants supporting our family of schools.

At the moment there are 27 vacancies available across our Trust Central Team and our family of schools. If you want to learn more about our organisation, the brilliant work the people in our schools do or how our application process works, please visit out Trust website:

We are very proud of the brilliant work that the children across our family of schools do to be of service to their local communities 🙏💙

A big thank you to the SLT @StGabsBury for inviting our Head of Innovation to your weekly meeting to discuss how we communicate across our Trust family. Your ideas and thoughts will help us to continue to Make Lives Better 🙏

Every other Tuesday @CSEL_STOC leads our Central Team Briefing. A key part of this is when at each briefing a different member of staff shares with the team a little bit about their experience and also updates us on the work that they are doing.

Don’t miss Taylor’s Team Talk! Taylor shares why collaboration across schools is vital to creating opportunities for children, and why swimming with family on a Sunday makes the perfect weekend. You can also visit our new Team Talk page here: ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🔗https://www.stoccat.org.uk/careers/team-talk/

A huge shout-out to our incredible Finance Team! Behind the scenes, they work tirelessly to keep everything on track – from budgets and planning to making sure our schools have what they need to thrive. Their hard work gives us the stability to focus on what matters most: our children. Thank you!

Make Lives Better With Us 🙏 Listen to the people who work within our Central Team and Family of schools talk about why they value being part of our schools and our wider organisation by visiting the 'Our People, Their Stories' section of our website:

Attendance is Everyone's Business🎒🏫💯 ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Get Involved in Governance; Make Lives Better There are a number of fantastic opportunities to volunteer with us at the moment as a governor across our family of schools. If you are interested in making a positive difference, please complete an expression of interest form:

Breaking News-Job Vacancy Alert We have just advertised a number of exciting roles across our Trust family: 🙋‍♀️Assistant Headteacher @stmonicas 🙋Second in Maths @StCuthbert71099 🙋‍♂️TA2 @StTeresasLL 🙋‍♀️Computer Science/Maths Teacher @StGabsBury 🙋Teacher @StBernadettesrc

Today we want to shine a spotlight on St Teresa’s, Salford. The school is full of creativity, from their brilliant artwork to the inspiring wider curriculum opportunities they offer.

Attendance is Everyone's Business🎒🏫💯 Did you know that a two-week holiday in term time reduces your child’s maximum attendance to 94.7%? That’s the same as missing 65 hours of learning.

We have 27 fantastic job opportunities available across our schools and central team! If you’re looking for a role where you can truly make lives better for our children and young people, this could be the perfect time to join us.

Preparations are well underway at STOC Central Office for one of our meeting rooms becoming the 'St Carlo Acutis' room, as part of a term of celebrating the life of Carlo. Carlo's use of technology is the perfect embodiment of our Trust value of innovation 💻🖱️⌨️

It's great to be working with John Rainer this morning for our Drama Professional Learning Network. A big thank you to @MSJBolton for hosting us 🎭

Building Our Community; Making Lives Better Last year we held a year long process of working with stakeholders to listen and learn and consider how we continue to build our community together.