Click here for a press release issued on Thursday 31 January 2008

The Way Forward

Salary: £70k-£75k (L30-L33) + Lease Car

An exceptional opportunity has arisen for an experienced, inspirational and strategic leader committed to championing Catholic school and college education in our Diocese.

The Diocese of Middlesbrough has undertaken in partnership with all its schools and colleges a fundamental review of its education provision. As a result we are seeking to appoint a Director of Schools to recruit and lead our new education team.

The Diocese serves the Catholic community from the Tees to the Humber, incorporating

• East Riding of Yorkshire
• Kingston upon Hull
• Middlesbrough
• North Yorkshire
• Redcar and Cleveland
• Stockton, and
• York local authorities.

We need the Director of Schools to be in post by September 2008, or earlier if possible.

Further particulars and application forms

Click here for the Job Description in pdf format.

Click here for the Person Specification in pdf format.

Click here for the Application Form in pdf format. Please note that, although this form is titled ‘HEADTEACHER APPLICATION FORM’, this is the correct form.

Click here for Further Particulars in pdf format.

Further particulars and application forms are also available from:
Colin Hardy
Acting Director of Schools
Curial Office, 50A The Avenue, Middlesbrough TS5 6QT
Telephone: (01642) 850515/505
Email: educationadmin@dioceseofmiddlesbrough.co.uk
Closing date: 22nd February 2008

This evening we celebrate the feast of St John Bosco who was born near Turin in 1815. He became a priest and devoted his life to the education of young people and founded a religious congregation to bring them up in the Christian way of life. The order he founded is known as the Salesians of Don Bosco. He died in 1888. Read More

David begins to think that he can interpret God’s will and tell God what he should do and shouldn’t do. God warns David and reminds him that it is only because God has been close to him that David has won the day. David is the servant of God and while he remembers this fact, he will be great and prosper and so will the people. God promises to be with David’s house and line for ever. God will not go back on his promise. It is the same with us. We ask for mercy, pardon and greater trust in God’s providence towards us. Read More

Click here to download the audio podcast from Bishop Drainey’s Ordination

Indeed, the Lord was with him and David was well aware that it was the close presence of the Lord that gave him strength, courage and direction. So he wants to bring the Ark of the Covenant from outside of the city to the very heart of his house and the heart of the life of his people. David is overjoyed, he is exuberant and dances before the Lord with all his might. Read More

“If a household is divided against itself, that household can never stand.” If the people of God are divided, they will not stand. Unity is such a powerful sacrament with which we can show the world that it is by the power of God - through Christ Jesus, bound together in the Holy Spirit. All disunity weakens and disintegrates the body, but in our case, because our life is given to us by God who is three persons in one God, and we are called to be witness to the unity of that divine community, in our case, disunity is blasphemy. This is very strong language indeed. In unity lies our strength; in unity lies our most powerful witness to the world. Read More

Bishop Terence Drainey’s ordination message can be read here.

A report on the Episcopal Ordination of Monsignor Terence Drainey as the seventh Bishop of Middlesbrough can be read here.

On Tuesday 18th March at 7pm there will be a Reconciliation Service at Sacred Heart Church, Middlesbrough.