"Cardinal Griffin" redirects here. For the cardinal the school is named after, see
Bernard Griffin .
Academy in Cannock, Staffordshire, England
Cardinal Griffin Catholic College is a
coeducational
Catholic
Secondary school and
sixth form located in
Cannock ,
Staffordshire , England.
[2]
History
Foundation stone
On 22 October 1960, the
foundation stone of the college was laid by Dom Basil Griffin OSB (died 1963). He was a monk at
Douai Abbey in
Woolhampton , Berkshire,
[3] and twin brother of
Cardinal Griffin , who the college was named after. The college was built to educate the children of the four Catholic
parishes in
Cannock Chase .
[4] Those parishes were St Mary and St Thomas More in Cannock, Our Lady of Lourdes in
Hednesford , St Joseph and Etheldreda in
Rugeley and St Joseph in
Burntwood .
[5]
The school has a
house system that names each of the six school houses after past
cardinals of the Catholic church in England. The houses are
Allen ,
Newman ,
Manning ,
Vaughan ,
Wiseman and
Hinsley .
The college has played the sport of
Handball since 1980s. In 1982, they won the national under-15s final and in the early 1980s came fourth in the under-14 championship of a Europe-wide Handball tournament in
Teramo .
[6]
In 2010 an observatory with two domes and what has been called the "largest collection of telescopes in the Midlands" was built on the school grounds. It was opened by Brother
Guy Consolmagno
SJ , the official Vatican Astronomer.
[7]
In 2013,
Ofsted inspected the school and rated it in overall effectiveness as 'Good' and behaviour and safety of pupils as 'Outstanding'. The overall effectiveness was an improvement from its previous inspection, which was rated as 'Satisfactory'.
[8]
Previously a
voluntary aided school administered by
Staffordshire County Council ,
[9] in September 2023 Cardinal Griffin Catholic College converted to
academy status .
[10] The school is now sponsored by The Painsley Catholic Academy Trust,
[11] but continues to be under the jurisdiction of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham .
References
External links
Secondary Grammar Special Further education Independent Former
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham
Churches
St Chad's Cathedral - Metropolitan Cathedral Church and Basilica of St Chad
St John the Evangelist Church, Banbury
St Francis of Assisi Church, Bedworth
Birmingham Oratory
Erdington Abbey, Birmingham
Our Lady Help of Christians, Tile Cross, Birmingham
Our Lady and St Brigid, Northfield, Birmingham
Our Lady and St Rose of Lima, Weoley Castle, Birmingham
St Anne's Church, Birmingham
St Catherine of Siena Church, Birmingham
St Edward's Church, Selly Park, Birmingham
St Francis of Assisi Church, Handsworth, Birmingham
St Mary's Church, Harborne, Birmingham
St Michael's Church, Birmingham
St Mary and St Modwen Church, Burton-on-Trent
St Giles' Church, Cheadle
Holy Trinity Church, Chipping Norton
St Osburg's Church, Coventry
St Peter and St Paul and St Elizabeth Church, Coughton
Church of the Sacred Heart and St Catherine, Droitwich Spa
St Peter's Church, Leamington Spa
Holy Trinity Church, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Our Lady of the Angels Church, Nuneaton
St Anne's Church, Nuneaton
Oxford Oratory
St Edmund and St Frideswide Church, Oxford
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Redditch
St Marie's Church, Rugby
St Austin's Church, Stafford
Our Lady of the Angels and St Peter in Chains Church, Stoke-on-Trent
St Mary's Church, Uttoxeter
St Mary's Church, Walsall
Church of Our Lady and St Hubert, Warley
St Mary Immaculate Church, Warwick
St Mary and St John Church, Wolverhampton
St Peter and St Paul's Church, Wolverhampton
St George's Church, Worcester
Schools
Archbishop Ilsley Catholic School
Bishop Challoner Catholic College
Bishop Milner Catholic College
Bishop Ullathorne Roman Catholic School
Bishop Walsh Catholic School
Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College
Blessed George Napier Roman Catholic School
Blessed William Howard Catholic School
Cardinal Griffin Catholic College
Cardinal Newman Catholic School and Community College
Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School, Coventry
Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School, Birmingham
Greyfriars Catholic School
Hagley Roman Catholic High School
Holy Trinity Catholic Academy of Stafford and Stone
Holy Trinity Catholic School, Birmingham
John Henry Newman Catholic College
The Oratory Preparatory School
The Oratory School
Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Academy
Painsley Catholic College
Princethorpe College
Rye St Antony School
St Augustine's High School, Redditch
St Benedict's Catholic High School, Alcester
St Dominic's Grammar School
St Dominic's Priory School, Stone
St Edmund Campion Catholic School
St Edmund's Catholic Academy
St Francis of Assisi Catholic College
St John Fisher Catholic College
St John Wall Catholic School
St Joseph's College, Stoke-on-Trent
St Margaret Ward Catholic Academy
St Mary Immaculate Catholic Primary School
St Paul's School for Girls, Birmingham
St Peter's Catholic School, Solihull
St Thomas Aquinas Catholic School, Birmingham
St Thomas More Catholic Academy
St Thomas More Catholic School, Nuneaton
St Thomas More Catholic School, Willenhall
Stuart Bathurst Catholic High School
Trinity Catholic School