Strengthening Catholic Education

IN 2021 SCHOOLS continued to adapt, balancing online lessons with class bubbles to ensure that pupils continued their education. Pastoral care played an important role, with schools making provision for the physical and spiritual care of their pupils and pupils in turn stepping up to provide for people in the wider community. Some ran food projects, such as foodbanks and food voucher schemes, to ensure local families from the wider community could eat.

This cooperation was also evident in the continuing development of the academisation programme. Three new Catholic Academy Trusts were created, taking the number to eight across the diocese. Working together, these schools share expertise, resources and opportunities to strengthen Catholic education, and to educate the whole child to encourage flourishing of the individual pupil, generating profit for society and the Kingdom of God.

Listening to the voices of students.

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Pupils at St Francis of Assisi Catholic Academy Trust in East Hertfordshire and Lea Valley learning about the natural world.