St Paul’s Academy – SCIAF Campaign
Pupils at St Paul’s RC Academy, Dundee turn their hands to many different fund raising ventures to support the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund as part of their Lenten Alms campaign.
Visit to St Joseph’s Primary, Dundee
Bishop Stephen and chaplain Fr Leszek Wiecaszek, S.A.C. on a pastoral visit to St Joseph’s Primary School, Dundee
MISSIO spreads the news at St Dominic’s, Crieff
The Diocese of Dunkeld has its own Missio team based at St Bernadette’s, Tullibody that is going round all the primary schools in the Diocese. The team explores the theme: Children Helping Children. It also focus very much on the need to pray for those less fortunate. A huge coloured rosary (the missionary rosary) with five different colours representing the …
Papal Award for service to Catholic Education
Michael Woods was presented with the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Award by Bishop Stephen Robson and Mgr Ken McCaffrey for his work helping to rebuild the Dundee’s Catholic schools. Mr Woods served from 2009 as Head of Secondary Education in the city, and from 2011 as Director of Education. In 2016 he was appointed Executive Director of Children and Family …
St Paul’s 10th Anniversary Mass
Bishop Stephen celebrated Mass at St Paul’s Academy, Dundee to mark the 10th Anniversary of the school’s opening. St Paul’s replaced the city’s former Lawside Academy and St Saviour’s High School.
St Mungo’s PS – SCIAF Campaign
St Mungo’s, Aloa, 6/7 class successfully planned and led a fundraising campaign for SCIAF during Lent. They were slightly concerned that they would not be as successful as previous years as Ash Wednesday fell in our February half term and then the snow came and interrupted their initial activities. All that aside, they still managed to reschedule and change events …
Highly commended at St Thomas’, Arbroath
Celebrations are underway in Angus as St Thomas Catholic Primary School Arbroath Pupil, Stanislaw Rakowski, received a Highly Commended award in the British Council Commonwealth Short Story competition. More than 3,000 stories from a host of Commonwealth countries around the world took part in this year’s competition on the theme of Peace. The judging panel selected the top three stories …
Kilgraston Christmas Concert
Movie magic was truly in the air on Friday night when the Kilgraston girls took to the stage to perform to a sold-out Perth Concert Hall. The concert opened this year with Headmistress, Mrs Dorothy MacGinty, giving her traditional welcome speech. Staff, families, friends and of course the girls were welcomed and told of how the famous Christmas Day Truce …