"St Augustine's Catholic Primary School near Norwich has been celebrating its 200th anniversary over the last year, including a Festival Finale in September and a visit from Bishop Alan Hopes back in May, reports Head Teacher Rachel Swindell." story continues.
image : Bishop Hopes with children at school.
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Sub-heading: "Catholics and council shocked".
"The re-organisation of Gorleston High School is back in the melting pot after the Bishop of Norwich rejected a plan for a joint church school." Some background to the project provided
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"Parents may be getting their children baptised to improve their chances of landing places at a high-performing Catholic schoo." story continues.
image caption: "Bishop of East Anglia the Rt Rev Alan Hopes"
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"Claim that parents may baptise children to get them into esteemed Catholic school." Story continues.
side panel - "What are the rules?"
Main image - entry gates to Notre Dame High School
3 head images: Bp Alan Hopes, Helen Bates (asst. director of schools' services, Diocese of East Anglia), Brian Conway (chief executive of St John the Baptist Multi Academy Trust)
Story 1: Community welcomes new roles, a Book of Life - and a shepherd's hut for prayer!
"The lastest news from the sisters at the Community of Our Lady of Walsingham (COLW) include a new role for Sr Camilla, the arrival of a shepherd's hut, a Book of Life and a special All Saints celebration." Story continues.
Image caption: "The new Shepherd's Hut at the Dereham COLW Convent"
Story 2: Prisoners' chocolate treats from Peterborough church
"An amazing 230 tubs of chocolates have been donated to prisoners at HMP Peterborough, thanks to St Luke's Parish in the town." Story continues
Image caption: "The three clerics with their stack of chocolate treats, which were sent to HMP Peterborough in time for Christmas"
Story 3: Norwich students quiz the 'naked scientist' on vaccines
"A-Level biology students at Notre Dame High School in Norwich interviewed 'Naked Scientist' Cambridge medical consultant Dr Chris Smith via Zoom before Christmas, with questions focusing on the challenges faced scientists in creating a Covid-19 vaccine." Story continues
"A clifftop special schoool ansd a city academy are amionfg four Norfolk schools to be earmarked for multi-million pound rebuilds by the government." Story continues.
image caption: "Helen Bates, assistant director of the schools service at the Catholic Diocese of East Anglia"
"Parents may be baptising their children to improve their chances of landing places at a high-performing Catholic school, its leaders have admitted." story continues.
2 images caption: "Notre Dame High School. Inset, Bishop of East Anglia the Rt Rev Alan Hopes"
"The legacy of a 100-year-old Catholic school will live on n a Norfolk market town after approval was granted for a new school in its place." (article continues...)
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Image: 2 pupils (Emma Gormley & Ivan Keeler) from Notre Dame High School.
text: Both are representing the Diocese of East Anglia and will meet the Pope in Assisi on Friday.
1 large image of children from St Thomas More Middle School gathered around the East Anglia banner.
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Sacred Heart School, in Swaffham since 1914, is a fee-paying school with some 160 pupils in its nursery, lower and senior schools. This year it has asked the community to help raise funds to keep it open. This was unsuccessful and the school recently announced that it would be closing at the end of the summer term. The Catholic Diocese of East Anglia has been working on plans for a new Catholic primary school, the first in Norfolk for decades, in its place. This week the plan was approved by Norfolk County Council.
"Sacred Heart Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School in Swaffham has been selected by the Department for Education to be
included in the latest round of its Schools Rebuilding Programme (SRP) for priority funding." Story continues.
image 1: two students
"Notre Dame High School in Norwich recently celebrated the wide cultural diversity among its students and staff and the rich heritage of their communities" Story continues.
image: large group of students
"A schoolboy from Thetford died from "severe head injuries" after being struck by a car, am inquest heard." Story continues
image caption: "Floral tributes left at the scene"
"Around 750 pupils from all 28 catholic schools across the Diocese of East Anglia gathered in St John the Baptist Cathedral in Norwich on Friday 29 September to celebrate the start of the academic year with a special schools Mass led by Bishop Peter Collins." Story continues.
Image 1: pupils in Cathedral House gardens
image 2: pupil reading at the lectern
Image 3: Bishop peter blessing a pupil
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Morris, Keith"Hundreds of pupils and staff from 28 schools across the Diocese of East Anglia came together on 20th September for a special Mass at St John the Baptist Cathedral to mark the start of a new academic year." story continues.
1 image captioned "Bishop Alan Hopes with representatives from diocesan schools"
"An unusual coincidence has seen a Catholic group in East Anglia embark on a sewing project to promote peace in Colombia - at the same time as the South American group was doing something similar." story continues.
image1 captioned: "Students from Notre Dame High School and the Explorer Scouts designed the squares and the CAFOD group sewed them together."
Article by Carina Murphy in The Tablet about the school places cap. Article makes reference to 2017 and Helen Bates, the assistant director of schools services in the Diocese of East Anglia; its severest shortage of Catholic schools in the country; Bishop, Alan Hopes (cap had “failed to create religious diversity” and stopped new Catholic schools from opening). Reference to St John Henry Newman Catholic Voluntary Academy (VA) (opened in 2022) and the Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School in Swaffham (opened in 2019).
"For more than 12 years, the Catholic Church in England and Wales has refused to build new Catholic schools as long as half the places must be open to children of all faiths or none. Is it time to think again?
The Catholic Union, backed by the Catholic Education Service (CES), has handed over its 1,058-strong petition to “Scrap the Cap” on faith-allocated places in new state-funded schools to Education Secretary Gillian Keegan and is waiting expectantly to hear whether the Prime Minister will push it through as part of his bold shake-up of the education system." Article continues.
Story 1: "A student at Notre Dame High School in Norwich has been named as 'World Changer of the Year' for her efforts in helping young people with their mental health during the pandemic. Year 10 student Chili Tozer won the Pearson accolade after teaching herself to use an electric sewing machine in lockdown with the help of her grandma on racetime." Story continues.
Image 1: Chili Tozer
Story 2: "Staff and children at the Sacred Heart VA Primary School in
Swaftham did not allow all the Covid-19 restrictions to dampen their Christmas cheer as they raised money for Uganda. A Christmas jumper design competition was one of many events which the school arranged in the lead-up to the Nativity. Won by Kimmie, the competition attracted a variety of artistic jumpers for the children to model. Money raised has been donated to the Sisters' mission in Uganda.". Story continues
Image 2 caption "Pictured above is Logan with his winning poster."