1 Members of the newly formed Sixth Form Liturgy Council of Prior Park College in Bath, who will be overseeing the College’s celebration of the Year of Mercy.
2 Natalia Farr, a pupil at Loreto Preparatory School, has won six individual titles in the Altrincham Swimming Club sprint championships.
3 Art students at Newman Catholic College have designed doors for the Year of Mercy commissioned by Fr Stephen Willis of Our Lady of Willesden Church in Harlesden, north-west London.
4 Bishop Alan Williams has presided at a Year of Mercy event at Brentwood Cathedral for heads, teachers and chaplains from schools across Essex and East London. A new book, Meeting the God of Mercy (McCrimmons), was launched at the event.
5 Forty girls from the Towers Convent School in Steyning, West Sussex, take part in a ski trip to Alpe d’Huez in France.
6 Pupils prepare to walk through the newly blessed Holy Door at St Margaret Clitherow RC Primary School in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.
7 Year 10 pupils from Saint Paul’s Catholic High School in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, perform an abridged version of Romeo and Juliet at the MANCEP Shakespeare Festival.
8 Tamlyn Worrall, development director of St Benedict’s School in Ealing, west London, Chris Ttouli, a manager at Handelsbanken, William Bedford, assistant head of careers at St Benedict’s, and Tara George, development officer at St Benedict’s. Handelsbanken Ealing will be the lead sponsor of the school’s careers fair next month.
9 Kevin Gritton, head of Saint Benedict Catholic Voluntary Academy in Derby, presents the Headteacher’s Award to Chris Wilkinson, who completed his A-levels after surviving a life-threatening infection.
10 Pupils at Loreto Preparatory School present a cheque for £620 to Kate Puc, fundraising officer of Francis House, a children’s hospice in Didsbury, Greater Manchester.
11 Staff and pupils from Saint Paul’s Catholic High School attend an Advent Mass at St Anthony’s Church, Wythenshawe.
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