Professional development programmes provide support for thousands of colleagues both within and beyond their Teaching School Alliance.

Bishop Challoner Catholic College are at the heart of the development and delivery of programmes to support non-specialist teachers in physics, maths and MFL and works in partnership with the Royal Society to develop STEM projects and resources that benefit pupils across multiple schools.

After weeks of rehearsals, the 10 students and 3 teachers joined the 2200 other choristers from across the country and were seated in the Grandstand directly to the left of the Pope as he delivered the Mass.

Continuing this success, the Choir secured one of three places in the final of a national search for the UK's best Glee Club.

The best club would win a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform on the West End stage at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre, home of WICKED, in December 2010.