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• Calling young artists

  
  THE Bishop of Barking, Rt Revd David Hawkins, is once again inviting primary school children from the Barking Episcopal area to design his Christmas cards.

• Best results ever for St Edward's

  
  ST Edward's C of E School and Sixth Form College in Romford has achieved pleasing results at both GCSE and A level for this year.

• Loads of ideas for schools on Fairtrade trail

  
  Produced by the Fairtrade Foundation THE Fairtrade Foundation's new schools DVD called ‘Are you a Fairtrade school? – All you need to know’ has been launched.

• Values at heart of great schools

  
  NEW website launched by the CofE marks a groundbreaking initiative to identify the distinctive values that make Christian schools popular with parents and students, and promote ways of living out those values in the day-to-day activities of a busy school environment.

• Rob named new diocesan director of education

  
  THE new Director of Education for Chelmsford Diocese will be Rob Fox.

• Harvest for Hungry's team visit Bulgaria

  
  TWO Essex priests, Revd Sue Cruse and Revd Patrick Sherring, were part of a group that visited Bulgaria to see the delivery of items collected through the Harvest for the Hungry charity.

• New head is priest

  
  THE new headteacher of St Edward's Church of England Comprehensive School in Romford is a priest.

• Trinity St Mary expands

  
  THE Bishop of Bradwell, Rt Revd Laurie reen, attended the first whole school assembly at South Woodham’s Trinity St Mary school to dedicate the new hall extension.

• Chief Education Officer spells out school values

  
  The Chief Education Officer of the Church of England has given school governors, head teachers and clergy in Chelmsford Diocese a preview of work in progress at Church House, Westminster, on the importance of values in church schools

• Mac Leonard: My faith at work

  
  I WAS brought up as the adopted son of a working class family. I learned I was adopted the night after I saw the lady I knew as mother die, at the age of 17. My father was a labourer for British Railways as it was then, and my mother a school dinner lady.

• Today's lesson is... weddings

  
  CHILDREN from Millfields primary school have been pronounced ?special friends? in a mock-wedding ceremony performed by Revd David Thomas at St Mary's church in Wivenhoe.

• New courses brochure sent to church schools

  
  CHELMSFORD Diocese has published a new learning and development brochure ready for the start of the new school year.

• Fancy changing your world?

  
  HAVE you ever wondered how you can be involved in changing your world for the future?

• Tiddlywinks training day

  
  IF you work with children under the age of 5, don't miss the Tiddlywinks training day at Colchester Baptist Church, Eld Lane, on Saturday, April 19 (10am-4pm).

• Emma's award assists her students

  
  A CHURCH youth worker has won a ?1,000 award for her leadership skills which will be spent on the youngsters she helps.

• Higher education chaplaincies merit greater support, says CoE report

  
  A MAJOR report, commissioned by the Church of England and supported by many of the main faith communities in the UK, offers a tutorial in the valuable work of university and college chaplains.

• College Chaplains Build Bridges, says report

  
  A major report commissioned by the Church of England and supported by many of the main faith communities in the UK, offers a tutorial in the valuable work of university and college chaplains. Faiths in Higher Education Chaplaincy calls on Higher Education Institutions and the government to continue to invest in chaplaincies to help them further their significant contribution to social cohesion, at a time when 43 per cent of young people in England and Wales have experienced higher education.

• Cathedral School's new head commissioned

  
  COMMISSIONED by the Dean at Chelmsford Cathedral on Education Sunday - Mrs Marian Emuss ,new head teacher of the Cathedral School in Victoria Road, the Dean (the Very Revd Peter Judd) and the new chair of governors, Mrs Ann Whelpdale.

• Diocese is learning to help parishes develop stronger school links

  
  MANY church members visit schools regularly and many Christian parents work hard for their local schools too.

• Choristers unite for awards ceremony

  
  DECEMBER marked the first joint presentation of Deans' and Bishops' Chorister Awards for the Dioceses of Brentwood and Chelmsford.

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