27-28 April 2009
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27-28 April 2009
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St Margaret Clitherow’s School is celebrating a very special double distinction this term. Both the OFSTED inspection and the Diocesan Inspection of Religious Education, Collective Worship and Catholic Life of the School have adjudged the school to be outstanding.

OFSTED stated that ‘This is an outstanding school. Pupils make excellent progress in their seven years in [...]

Music is all around
Below is a photograph of a recent visit to All Saints RC Primary School, Thirsk by ‘Music For Life’. Seen in the photograph with some of our Reception children are Naomi Atherton on French horn and Dan Whibley on double bass. Dan is the ‘tallest double bass player in the world’ and [...]

On 24th February, St Mary’s RC Primary School, Market Weighton, held a Mardi Gras eco-carnival day to raise funds for CAFOD and to find a different way of celebrating Shrove Tuesday in solidarity with young people in Brazil.

In their pre-Lenten communication, CAFOD told us that colourful carnivals, fiestas and parades are part of life for [...]

St Martin’s Ampleforth have returned from their first combined Schola and Netball tour. Twenty five girls, between Years 6 and 8, were taken to London to play netball fixtures against St Edmund’s College, Ware; St Mary’s School, Hampstead; and St Benedict’s School, Ealing, as well as to sing in three prestigious venues – St Mary’s [...]

The student Peace Team at St Mary’s College, Middlesbrough, have been announced as the overall national winners of the Pax Christi Peace Challenge 2009, a competition that spans the Catholic educational community of the whole of Europe. The team have now been invited to Peace House in Italy to meet the other national winners from [...]

Twenty five girls from the Schola Sancti Martini, the girls’ choir of St Martin’s Ampleforth School, sang in Westminster Cathedral at the Vigil Mass on Saturday 21st March 2009. This sung Mass formed part of a four day netball and choir tour to London. As well as playing in a number of netball matches, the [...]

Kevin Macklam, Headteacher of St Joseph’s R.C. Primary School in Pickering and a parishioner of St John’s in Easingwold, will be riding ‘La Marmotte’ – a 108 mile epic one-day, non-stop bike ride that goes up four of the Tour De France climbs – on July 4th this year.

Kevin aims to raise £2000 to be [...]