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Celebration As School Expands Catholic November 2017 FREE East Anglia Newspaper of the Diocese of East Anglia www.rcdea.org.uk Norfolk Peñafrancia Fatima statue convent opens celebration on visits Norwich doors to reality Norfolk Broads TV - page 3 - page 5 - page 7 St Martha’s doubles in size with £3.5m building Catholic high schools help students show real progress I Four Catholic High Schools in East Anglia have achieved impressive results in the recent GCSE Progress 8 figures which shift the focus of school league tables from attainment to progress of students and added value. Notre Dame in Norwich came top of the table for schools in Norfolk in the GCSE results with 87% of students achieving Grade 4+ in English and Maths while posting a Progress 8 score of +0.44. St John Fisher High School in Peterborough was named in the top five schools nationally which made the biggest jump in the Progress 8 results, by education magazine Schools Week, with a score of +0.39. St Bede’s Inter-Church School in Cambridge scored +0.52 in Progress 8 along with an 81% GCSE score and St Benedict’s in Bury St Edmunds scored +0.49 in Progress 8 alongside a 74% GCSE score. The new Progress 8 measure, which came in last year, compares the progress of a school's students with the progress of students nation - Headteacher, Aidan McGovern, and King’s Lynn mayor, Carol Bower, with pupils at St Martha’s outside the new building. ally with the same prior attainment data from primary school. Notre Dame Head of School, Neil Cully, said: “We were delighted with our summer exam results. They were among the best results we have ever had. “Our Progress 8 score for this summer’s GCSE results is +0.44. This means that our Year 11 students made almost half a grade Celebration as better than expected progress across their best eight GCSEs compared to students across the country who had achieved similar results to our own in their SATs at the end of Year 6. Our disadvantaged students also did very well as indicated by their Progress 8 score of A full day of celebrations on with a connection to the school filling building open. school expands +0.36.” the church to overflowing. Inside the new school hall, head - September 25 marked the 60th St John Fisher head teacher, Sean Hayes, A school choir led the singing and teacher, Aidan McGovern thanked all anniversary of St Martha’s said: “The move to judging schools on the pupils participated in all elements of involved with the school over the last Catholic primary school in progress each individual student makes is one the Mass. 60 years, including those who had King’s Lynn and the official that we very much welcome as it takes into In his homily, Bishop Alan spoke made the extension possible. He also account the actual prior attainment of each opening of a new £3.5m about how the school, along with fam - spoke about the school, its history and student. The previous system merely took extension which has enabled it ilies and the church and Catholic what it means to him today: “As staff, their raw exam results with no regard to prior to double in size from 210 to faith, gives pupils the chance to build we continue to strive to be the best attainment. We are not surprised that this has 420 places. solid and sure foundations to their that we can be, so that our children, caused a dramatic change in how we are lives. who we serve, can be the best that they ranked as a school, and I would suggest that The major expansion at St Martha’s “All these things are shaping your can be. this highlights the flaws in the previous was funded through Norfolk County lives, just as 60 years ago this school “All of my four daughters came to system. Council, the Diocese of East Anglia was shaped into being,” said Bishop this school and I feel a deep and and central government. Alan. “If you build your life on sure profound sense of belonging to St It has provided the school with eight foundations you can be sure that you Martha’s. I hope I will leave a legacy new classrooms, a sports hall, a new will be in the right place, doing the for those who come after me.” staff room and group rooms. It has right thing because God will have Pauline McSherry, one of two origi - also created a parent ‘drop-off’ area brought you there with the best of nal teachers at the school 60 years ago, behind the church in order to improve foundations, who is Jesus Christ.” helped Aidan cut an anniversary cake. congestion at peak times, and an The celebrations moved to the new The day’s celebrations continued enlarged staff car park. There is also a school extension and after some songs with a display of dancing through the new 3G multi-use games area. from the school choir, Bishop Alan decades from all the school’s pupils, The day of celebrations, on Septem - was joined by Mayor of King’s Lynn followed by an international food festi - ber 25, began with a School Mass at and West Norfolk Carol Bower and val staged by parents, stalls and nearby Holy Family Church cele - senior officer of Norfolk County games, rock climbing, a giant slide and brated by Bishop Alan with pupils, Council’s Children Services, Chris other activities well into the evening. staff, parishioners, parents and others Hey, to cut a ribbon and pronounce the I More pictures on centre pages. Page 2 latest online news at: www.rcdea.org.uk Catholic East Anglia / November 2017 news in brief Church secures New prior named at Clare Priory I A new Prior has been appointed as also worked as a parish priest in Ire - head of the Augustinian Community at land, at St Brigid's church, Co Cavan. £250,000 grant the historic Clare Priory in Suffolk. In autumn 2008, Fr Stefan moved to Fr Stefan Park OSA, who has been London to establish the UK Augustini - I The Catholic Church of the Sacred Prior and parish priest at St Joseph's ans' first vocations discernment Heart in Southwold has been awarded Augustinian Priory in Edinburgh, community. This ran for five years, and a Heritage Lottery grant of £250,000 to Scotland, for the past two years, has produced 16 candidates for religious life repair and restore the church tower arrived to take on the role. and priesthood to the dioceses as well as and to improve the heating and light - He succeeds Fr Ian Wilson OSA, who a variety of religious orders. ing, subject to satisfactory progress became Prior at Clare in July 2015, “As Vocations Director I travelled with initial development work on the following his return to the UK after widely,” said Fr Stefan, “connecting proposed work. more than ten years as a member of the with young people all over the UK, and Recent structural surveys revealed Augustinian community at San giving talks and retreats in the UK, that the church tower was in danger of Gimignano in Tuscany, Italy, close to Ireland and Europe.” collapse unless urgent work was the area where the first friars of St Fr Stefan is currently Chaplain for carried out. Augustine had originated in 1244. the Medjugorje Apostolate for England Built at the height of WW1, the Father Ian has now taken up his new and Wales, for Cor Christi Trinitate, church is a unique example of the position as Prior at St Joseph's in and to Heriot-Watt University Catholic work of priest and architect Fr Bene - Edinburgh. Society. dict Williamson, who built around 30 Fr Stefan, a Glaswegian, worked in IT Father Stefan was at a shared outdoor churches in the years from the late for many years before joining the lunch at Clare Priory on Sunday August 1890s to the early 1920s, mostly in and Augustinian Order of friars in 1992. His 27 after the 10.30am Mass. The shared around London. father was Ukrainian and his mother meal was to mark St Augustine of It is built in the Late Gothic style and Fr Stefan Park OSA. Polish. “I moved away from the faith as Hippo's feast day and to thank parish - is a significant feature of the South - a teenager,” he said, “reconnecting Christ in Glasgow, and then the Antioch ioners and friends for their work. wold landscape. The view from the again in my mid-thirties. Community in Acton.” Parish Priest at Clare Priory, Fr tower is outstanding taking in the “I worked as an IT specialist for many He was ordained a priest in Edin - David Middleton OSA, said of the whole sweep of Sole Bay and the River years before making a rather abrupt life burgh in 2001. He has previously served lunch: “Our parish and priory commu - Blyth out to Halesworth. change after rediscovering the reality in Augustinian communities at St nity has so many reasons to be Parish Priest Fr Roger de Lacy- of God, after being introduced to the Mary's, Harborne, Birmingham, at St thankful. Today’s Mass and shared Spencer said: “This grant will ensure charismatic dimension of Christian life Augustine's in Hammersmith, London, lunch have given us all the opportunity that the Church can continue to wel - through the Community of the Risen and at Austin Friars in Carlisle. He has to say thank you to God and each other.” come both parishioners and visitors.
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