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 Students and teachers from across Cardiff archdiocese celebrated the end of the Year of Catholic Education with an event in St David’s Hall Cardiff on 3 November 2011. Leading up to the event, schools took part in an archdiocesan Cafod World Gifsts project, raiding over £18,000. The gifts purchased were presented to Archbishop George [...] The Catholic Education Service has prepared a short Powerpoint to mark the anniversary of the Holy Father’s visit to UK last year. This simple presentation allows the Pope to speak directly to young people, reminding them of his key message at ‘The Big Assembly”. Download the 2.35 minute powerpoint for schools here. During the Papal Visit last year, Pope Benedict met with school children from all over the country at the BIG Assembly. There he reminded everyone that God simply wants our friendship and he called all of the young people who were there to become living saints. Bishop Malcolm McMahon announced that the BIG Assembly [...] The first ever gathering of students from all 17 Catholic sixth form colleges across England and Wales took place last week as part of the Year of Catholic Education. The colleges’ press release is below. In a distinct interactive event which paired leading experts with talented young people from across the country, sixth formers [...] On Tuesday 28th June at the Institute of Education, the Social Impact Challenge, which is a one-day competition for 16-19 year old students which aims to challenge young people to engage with and devise solutions to a contemporary social issue, will take place. Experts in the five disciplines will deliver masterclasses in order to provide students [...] Each month Hodder Education asks an expert from the RE and Philosophy community to share their thoughts and teaching ideas on their RE and Philosophy blog. CESEW’s Religious Education Adviser, Fr Timothy Gardner OP, who is also a teacher of RE and Philosophy at Maria Fidelis Convent School in North London, has contributed to the blog [...] On Wednesday 11th May 2011, a thousand children, young people and staff from the Catholic schools in Portsmouth diocese joined together with Bishop Crispian Hollis for their Good Shepherd Mass. The annual event at St. John’s Cathedral had special features this year: schools presented the money they had collected during Lent for the Cabrini [...] Prayer 1: Prayer 2: A Catholic primary school in the Diocese of Salford has been awarded the Investors in People gold status. They write: SS Aidan and Oswald RC Primary School in Oldham has achieved the prestigious Gold status at their recent Investors in People review, acknowledging achievement of world-class best practice and representing a cutting-edge organisation [...] Congratulations to St Mary’s University College (SMUC), which has been awarded the highest grade attainable in its recent Ofsted inspection. Ofsted judged SMUC’s School of Education to be ‘outstanding’ for both its Primary and Secondary Initial Education programmes. SMUC is one of only twelve higher education institutions nationally to receive this assessment for both Primary [...] Over 30 representatives from across Europe joined together at St Mary’s University College (SMUC) in Twickenham for the General Assembly of the European Committee for Catholic Education (CEEC) last weekend (31 March-3 April 2011). The twenty five member countries represented at the Assembly chiefly comprised their Bishops’ nominated national representative for schools [...] jQuery(“#flickr_wales_357″).data(“delay”,”5″);jQuery(“#flickr_wales_357″).data(“autoplay”,”on”);;jQuery(“#flickr_wales_357″).data(“transition”,”"); On Thursday March 24th 2011, over 600 pupils, representing Catholic schools and colleges from across Wales, their headteachers and staff, senior members of the Catholic Education Service for England and Wales, and Welsh Bishops and clergy, gathered at the Senedd in Cardiff to celebrate the contribution Catholic schools make [...] |
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