The Headmaster of St Martin’s Ampleforth, Mr Nicholas Higham, was delighted to find out that three former pupils have succeeded in their Oxbridge entrance exams.
Eleanor Kirk (Classics – Corpus Christi, Oxford), Henry Hawkesworth (Music/Choral – King’s College, Cambridge) and Shobha Prabhu-Naik (English – Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge) are all pupils at Ampleforth College, where they [...]
Trinity Catholic College and the Year of Catholic Education
Following Pope Benedict’s recent Apostolic Visitation to the United Kingdom, the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales designated this year as the Year of Catholic Education under the theme ‘I have come so that they may have life and have it to the full’ (John 10:10).
Building on [...]
In a wonderful moment of spontaneity, the Bishop of Middlesbrough, Terence Drainey, shakes the hand of St Andrew’s parishioner, Mrs Betty Devine, after a Mass in St Mary’s Catholic Primary School, Grangetown, to celebrate 40 years in the ‘new’ school building.
The Mass was celebrated by the Bishop on Tuesday 14th December 2010 at 10.00am. Betty [...]
Bishop Terry Drainey has issued a pastoral letter for Education Sunday 2011.
Click here to read it.
The Right Reverend Terence Patrick Drainey, Bishop of Middlesbrough, will lay and bless the foundation stone at the new school for the Roman Catholic community in York on Thursday 10 February at 11 o’clock. This ceremony will take place at the English Martyrs RC Primary School site, Hamilton Drive, York, YO24 4JW.
Bishop Drainey will gather [...]
Each year, on the eve of Remembrance Day, Year 6 from St Martin’s Ampleforth visit the Alba Rose Nursing Home in Pickering to entertain the residents by singing songs to bring back memories. The children sang a repertoire of songs from the war period, old music hall songs and more classical pieces, with Henry Laird [...]
