It's a Knockout

On Saturday 2nd of July this year we are going to be hosting a huge event that you will all want to be part of! Between 11 and 4 there will be competitions, food & drink, stalls, a treasure hunt, bouncy castle and so much more for people to take part in as well as the main event of an It's a Knockout competition...

Year 6 Retreat

St. Cuthbert's and St. Teresa's Primary Schools joined up for a Leaver's Retreat at the Youth Village in May. This was the first time that the schools had come together for something like this but hopefully not the last. Taking the theme of "You are God's Treasure" the children were helped to learn about how...

Year 9 Retreat - Over & Under

One of the games that the Year 9s enjoyed when they were on retreat last year was the Over & Under race so it was only right that we would play the same thing again this year. Those who were on the Year 8 retreat with St Anne Line house last year will remember that Miss Malcolmsons team beat Mr Websters team...

Year 9 Retreat - Celebration Mass

On our final day at the Youth Village we celebrated mass together as the work of our few days on retreat all came together. We had been looking at the theme of choices during the time on retreat and the gospel for our mass was on the parable of the talents and the choices that the people who each had different...

Year 9 Retreat - Role Play

As part of the Year 9 retreat at the Youth Village with YMT each group had to do a short role play focusing on a key word. The first group acted out some of the wonderful things that Mother Teresa did during her amazing life, naming her as an inspiration to each of us: The second group took on the theme of...

Year 9 Retreat - Dance Off

On Friday morning Howard led a dance off between each of the groups. The first stage meant that each group got to perform their own two dances while everyone else watched then joined in for the Black Eyed Peas song Bebot: After this everyone took part in the final mash-up with some interesting results! ...

Year 9 Retreat - Video Roundup

We've finally put together a short video of the highlights of our Year 9 Retreat at the Youth Village. It was difficult cutting this one down to just 3 minutes because there was so much that could have been put into here but look out for a few other feature videos still to come! ...

Year 9 Retreat - Review

Hey its Shannon, Chelsie and Haleigh here! Over the past 3 days we have been to the the Youth Village on retreat. When we were there we had an awesome time! First to greet us was Howard or as he likes to call himself, Howay Howey. Although Shannon still believes they are different people. He is from the Philippines...

Year 9 Retreat - Day 3 Update

Today we continued our workshops and mine was drama! And once we had practiced, we wrote bidding prayers to say during our mass celebration. We learned a few songs to sing in it too. We woke up late and forgot to make Mr. Webster his daily cuppa! Don’t know how that went down with him. We took a lot of photos...

Year 9 Retreat - Day 2 Review

Today for dinner we had ham and cheese wraps, salad and then finished with shortbread biscuits. They were delicious! After that we split into our groups and we discussed lots of topics such as: our image of god, inspirational people and lots more. Then we had to make up an advert to advertise a quality in a...

Year 9 Retreat - Day 2 Update

Hey it's Annabelle and Marley! Today we have had a dance off between ours groups and it was brill. We danced to Thriller, Dancing Queen, Don't Blame it on the Sunshine, Kung Foo-Fighting, The Twist and Ice Ice Baby. Then we discussed who influences us and how we picture God. Then we decided wether we wanted...

Year 9 Retreat - LIVE!

Here is the first update live from the Year 9 retreat! We arrived not long after lunch and have been busy with activities ever since. Our first day here has gone really well and we've got a quick update from two of the girls so here goes... The first thing we did when we arrived at Consett Youth Village was...

Making Cranes

Yoko is a Japanese woman who works in the UK but whose family are back in Japan. In an effort to help her people she has set about making 1000 paper cranes, a symbolic gesture but also a way of raising money. Last week she visited English Martyrs school and was joined by a big group of students, plus a few parishioners,...

Musical Worship @ St Patrick's

A small group of young people and adults met-up at St. Patrick's to bring a fresh new sound to evening Mass. Led by the fearless Kev, we had 90 minutes to learn 5 new songs before leading an unsuspecting congregation to a musical place some of them had never been before! The reaction was very positive. One parishioner...

Feast of the English Martyrs

On the 4th of May we celebrated our patronal feast day of the English Martyrs in school. To mark this occasion we had a time of prayer and song and raised the school flag to honour those that make our faith possible today here in Hartlepool...