1 Mother Abbess Máire Hickey and Justice Peter Kelly, president of Ireland’s High Court (far right), were added to Notre Dame’s Roll of Honour as the university opened its new education centre at Kylemore Abbey, Connemara. They are pictured with Thomas Burish, the Provost.
2 Members of the Norwich Circle of the Catenian Association hold their August meeting. Members agreed to donate to the Catholic district of Karuna Battambang, Cambodia, which needs to buy a taxi to transport vulnerable people to a day centre.
3 Brother Tom at his profession as a Franciscan friar at Woodford Green, Essex (see friar.org).
4 Portsmouth diocesan organist Christopher Olding is celebrating his 30th year of organ playing.
5 Students at St Anselm’s College, Birkenhead, have received a Cardinal Hume award from the Celebrating Young People charity, in recognition of their outreach work with asylum seekers and others.
6 Laura Sellers, of St John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy in Derbyshire, celebrates her GCSE results with headteacher Joan McCarthy.
7 Febi Jaimon, of St Benedict Catholic Voluntary Academy in Derby, said he was “relieved and overwhelmed” by his seven A*s, two As and a B at GCSE.
8 Students at Our Lady’s Convent School, Loughborough, open their results.
9 Celina Guzkowska and Nnamdi Nwokedi on results day at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire.
10 Celebrations at Prior Park College in Bath.
11 Students at New Hall in Chelmsford, Essex, which teaches boys and girls in single-sex classes from Year 7, have achieved record GCSE results, with more than 20 per cent of grades at A*.
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