1 Former Ofsted head Sir Michael Wilshaw has been appointed to lead St Mary’s University’s school leadership programme. He is pictured with MP Stephen Pound, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Bishop Richard Moth and St Mary’s vice chancellor Francis Campbell.
2 The Independent Schools Inspectorate has placed Loreto Preparatory School in Altrincham, Cheshire, in the “Excellent” category, the highest possible judgment.
3 Professor J Scott Davidson is installed as the new vice-chancellor of Newman University in Bartley Green, Birmingham.
4 Parents have raised £2,500 to transform the library at St Teresa’s Primary School in Firswood, Greater Manchester, with help from art students at St Antony’s Catholic College.
5 The under-16 netball team at Coloma Convent Girls’ School in Croydon will represent London and the South East in the National Netball Finals next month.
6 Bishop Declan Lang presides at a celebration of marriage in Clifton Cathedral (photo: Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk).
7 Skiers from Woldingham School in Surrey have won 24 medals at recent international racing championships.
8 Fr Tony McGrath, pictured with John Bailey, Callum Newman, Kelechi Nwaiwu and Dale Krause, visits his old school, St Ambrose College in Hale Barns, Altrincham, where he spoke about his vocation.
9 Bishop Alan Hopes, pictured with the Rt Rev Graham James, Bishop of Norwich, has written the foreword to a new report by the Diocese of East Anglia’s diocesan commission for dialogue and unity, which concludes that ecumenism is thriving in the diocese.
10 Gerlando Parrinello, a 14-year-old student at St Bede’s Catholic College in Bristol, has raised £3,694 for Macmillan Cancer Support by shaving his head. When Gerlando recently began to suffer from severe alopecia, his father urged him to turn the experience into something positive.
11 Bishop Alan Williams of Brentwood visits Caritas Anchor House in Canning Town, east London.
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