1 The Confirmation group at St John Fisher Church in Shepperton, Middlesex, with Bishop John Wilson after the celebration of their Confirmation Mass.
2 Akshara Suresh and Maria Denisova, pupils at Loreto Preparatory School in Altrincham, Cheshire, have won the UK Chess Challenge Megafinals.
3 A student at Saint Paul’s Catholic High School in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, taking part in the Premier League Reading Stars programme, meets author Alan Gibbons during a trip to Old Trafford.
4 Dinner lady Annette Bullock has retired after 33 loyal years of service at St Thomas More Catholic School in Willenhall, West Midlands.
5 A Catholic delegation, including Bishop Paul Hendricks, lends a hand at Meal for All, a homeless outreach project based at Finsbury Park Mosque in London (Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk).
6 Boys and staff at St Ambrose College in Hale Barns, Cheshire, make a shared vegetarian meal with Sikh community volunteers during a visit to Central Gurdwara, Manchester.
7 Tara Sullivan, 13, has won a competition to design the cover of a book of students’ writings published the Saint Benedict Catholic Voluntary Academy in Derby.
8 Best-selling novelist Elizabeth Noble has judged a writing competition at Barrow Hills School in Witley, Surrey.
9 Children at Stonyhurst St Mary’s Hall in Lancashire perform in The Jungle Book.
10 St Benedict’s School in Ealing, west London, has commemorated the loss of the battlecruiser HMS Hood on the 75th anniversary of the tragedy. Two former pupils died when the ship went down on May 24, 1941.
11 First Holy Communion candidates at St Peter’s Church in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, with their paschal candle-inspired designs and mosaics made during a mosaic workshop.
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