1 Mark Spyropoulos, the first English singer since the Reformation to be awarded a contract with the Sistine Chapel Choir, meets members of Worth School Schola during a visit to his old school (Emma Duggan Photography).
2 The boys’ and girls’ choirs of St Martin’s Ampleforth Prep School sing Evensong at Ripon Cathedral in North Yorkshire.
3 Fr Philip Shryane, parish priest of St Mary’s, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, joins parishioners in saying farewell to Fr Walter Chenyika, who has served in the parish for the past six months.
4 Micah Evans, a striker at Stockport County, visits Saint Paul’s Catholic High School in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester.
5 Cardinal Seán Brady, Bishop Noel Treanor of Down and Conor, the Very Rev Gregory Dunstan, Anglican Dean of Armagh, Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham and Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh attend an ecumenical service at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh.
6 Staff and pupils at Our Lady’s Convent School in Loughborough, Leicestershire, celebrate after receiving the highest possible accolade for an independent school: an “excellent” rating across the board in its most recent inspection.
7 Bishop Declan Lang and the Lord Mayor of Bristol, Cllr Clare Campion-Smith, after a civic Mass at Clifton Cathedral in Bristol.
8 Pupils from Saint Paul’s Catholic High School in Wythenshawe take part in a three-day residential retreat at Savio House in Bollington, Cheshire.
9 Pupils from the three schools in the Royal Borough Teaching School Alliance, which recently held a day of workshops for teachers and staff from other schools at Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School in west London.
10 Aspiring medic Rory McNicholas, a student at St Ambrose College in Hale Barns, Greater Manchester, will visit Uganda next month to assist at a paediatric outpatient unit.
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