1 A team of students from Ampleforth College has qualified for the 20/20 Chess National Superfinal, becoming the first school team to reach that stage of the competition.
2 Fr Alan Robinson, Dame Maggie Smith and Richard O’Callaghan, chairman of CaAPA (the Catholic Association of Performing Arts), at the reception after the Mass of Thanksgiving for actor Frank Finlay.
3 Stonyhurst pupils put on an African-themed fashion show to raise money for the Goedgedacht Trust in South Africa.
4 Bradford Catholic School Youth Choir, directed by Tom Leech, gives a concert in St Joseph’s Church, Bradford, with the Gabrieli Consort and Players.
5 Members of the Catholic 17th Harrow Scout Group, Greater London North West, have invited 120 parishioners to Sunday lunch in the Scout HQ in the grounds of the Church of Our Lady and Saint Thomas Canterbury, Harrow on the Hill. Proceeds went towards the restoration of the Scout HQ and charitable causes.
6 His Beatitude Fouad Twal, Patriarch Emeritus of Jerusalem, visits Oxford, where he spoke in favour of religious freedom in a debate at the Oxford Union.
7 Sarah Teather from the Jesuit Refugee Service talks to students at Stonyhurst.
8 Bishop Alan Hopes of East Anglia blesses a £3.5m extension at St Martha’s Catholic Primary School in King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
9 Members of the new cheerleading club at Saint Paul’s Catholic High School in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester.
10 Students at Saint Paul’s Catholic High School take part in a cooking club.
11 Pupils at Grays Convent High School in Essex perform Annie.
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