Governor goes back to school
We could all feel the excitement in the air when the Governor of NSW and Sydney Catholic Schools (SCS) alumna, Margaret Beazley, and husband Dennis Wilson turned up at Holy Spirit Catholic Primary Schoo …
Students shine at ArtExpress
Nine students from Sydney Catholic Schools (SCS) have been chosen from 9,000 entries to have their works displayed in the annual ArtExpress HSC showcase exhibitions.
Splash-tastic: Zone 5 Swimming Carnival
More than 250 students from Sydney Catholic Schools (SCS) dove into the Zone 5 Swimming Carnival in Sutherland today.
Water riveting day of action in the pool!
That includes the cheeky duck that took a dip in …
A splash of blitz spirit
“First place, Sienna Bautista!”
Six times this rang out over the loud speaker at Liverpool’s Whitlam Leisure Centre as the 2021 Zone 6 Swimming Carnival’s swimming sensation picked up blue ribbon after blue ribbon.
Her podium sweep began with the Senior Girls 100-metre Freestyle in which s …
Following St Joseph’s example
A powerful prayer life throughout 2020 led Berala parishioner Ivica Kovac to a unique new role as a Sydney Catholic primary schools’ Family Educator.
“Encouraged by two priests, I was praying to St Joseph; I wanted to do something more,” Mr Kovac, who comes from an equipment rental business b …
Carnival goes off with a splash
New Family Educators welcomed
Today we welcomed 16 new Family Educators into the Sydney Catholic Schools (SCS) family.
“It’s really exciting to actually have all our primary schools – bar three – with a Family Educator now,” SCS’ Educator Officer: Church Engagement, Bernadette Bridle, said.
“They’re all really eager an …
Three sets of twins start school
Teachers were seeing double at St Anthony of Padua Catholic College Austral at the start of this school term.
Principal Lea De Angelis said the school has welcomed three sets of Kindy twins, who couldn’t be more excited to go to “big scho …
HSC 2020: Sydney Catholic College with the most All-round Achievers
Freeman Catholic College’s HSC results are cause for celebration.
The Bonnyrigg Heights secondary college had the highest number of All-Round Achievers recipients from Sydney Catholic Schools’ cohort, with eight of the total 46 received.
According to the NSW Education Standards Authority ( …
Celebrating 80 years in pictures
New history picture book Discovering Our Past tells the story of St Therese Catholic Primary School Mascot in its 80th year.
Books for 5-8 Year Olds
My child is 5-8 years old. What should I look for when picking a book they will want to read? We asked Sydney Catholic Schools’ Education Officer: Reading Recovery, Rosemary Peric.
1. What should a parent/carer look for in a children’s book?
- Interesting voca …
Don’t Worry, Be You@Bosco
Students and staff say they are calmer and more settled since a suite of wellbeing and mindfulness activities have been rolled out at St John Bosco Catholic Primary School Engadine.
“The student …
HSC 2020: The results are in …
Sydney Catholic Schools’ Executive Director, Tony Farley, has congratulated our 2020 HSC top achievers on their outstanding results in a challenging year.
Banding together through faith and music
Sydney Catholic Schools’ Youth Ministry Band is giving students like Marcus Edwards and Gala Alemany Traconis the rare chance to explore their faith through music.
Marcus and Gala, from De La Salle College Ashfield and Domremy College Five Dock respectively, said they both joined the band aft …
Koala-ty learning in action
Students from Sydney Catholic Schools (SCS) schools have had the rare opportunity to get up close and personal with one of Australia’s biggest icons … the koala!
Easy Christmas recipes
Looking for some family cooking fun these holidays?
A new cookbook, released by Villa Maria Catholic Primary School in Hunters Hill, has you covered.
Titled Villalicious, the cookbo …
Pictures tell the Christmas Story
The silent witness of the donkey at the Nativity scene, Herod the puppeteer, and modern-day Magi depicted as a farmer, doctor and fireman – they are among the themes portrayed in a Catholic schools’ Christmas Story Art Exhibition and Competition.
About 12,000 Year 5 and 6 students from school …
A show of hands for NAIDOC Week
Southern Cross plies new trades
Students keen to ply a trade can now tap into their passions from Year 9 at Sydney Catholic Schools’ Southern Cross Catholic College at Burwood.
The Innovation and Enterprise specialisation provides a special focus on employability through a wide range of available traineeships and apprentice …
Sydney’s First Catholic Performing Arts High School in 2021
Students keen to leap into the spotlight can now tap into their passions at Sydney’s first comprehensive Catholic performing arts high school.
Starting from next year Sydney Catholic Schools’ (SCS) Southern Cross Catholic College at Burwood will offer full-time courses for students in Years 9 …
‘Like magic, I was getting A’s and B’s in maths’
Does your child struggle to reach their full potential in class? The Arrowsmith program may be the answer.
Year 6 student Amelie Kovse always struggled to keep up in the classroom until she found the Arrowsmith Program.
“I thought that I was stupid, that something was wron …
‘Art runs in my blood’
This young indigenous Sydney Catholic Schools student is making big waves in the art world.
Not only has Billy Reynolds designed kits for Cricket Australia’s ‘Woolworths Cricket Blast’ program, which teaches Aboriginal kids aged 5 to 10 years the basic skills of cricket.
Tech Girls Movement gains momentum
An app with a bio consciousness designed by Sydney Catholic Schools students has won a national competition designed to bolster girls’ interest in science and technology.
Solar challenge goes to school
For the first time ever, Fairfield Patrician Brothers’ College will not only take part in the annual UNSW SunSprint Model Solar Challenge – but will host half the competition.
SunSprint invites pri …
Kudos to our teachers
Let’s send virtual apples to all our amazing teachers on World Teachers’ Day (Friday 30 October).
What better day to recognise seven of Sydney Catholic Schools’ (SCS) teachers, who have been named winners of the Teachers’ Guild of NSW 2020 World Teachers’ Recognition Awa …
First in world: Our language star
A Sydney Catholic Schools student has eclipsed 181,000 students to take out the Arabic crown in the Education Perfect World Languages Championships.
“I have participated in this competition for the past two years and achieved great growth in my mother language, which is Arabic,” Katlen Ghanem …
Care squares for charity
Students and staff at Bethlehem Catholic College Ashfield have been giving up their lunchtimes to knit care squares for blankets that will warm those in need around the world.
The school’s learning …
Step back in time
In 1880 it was not uncommon to see a sisterhood of nuns en route from their convent home in Pitt Street, Sydney, to St James Catholic Primary School Glebe where they taught.
Among them was their first pr …
Accolades keep adding up
Who hasn’t seen a kindergartener with a backpack so big it’s almost dragging on the ground.
Four kindies at Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Primary School Fairfield have taken matters into their …
Kids speak up
Every child is a public speaker at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Primary School Kingsgrove.
This is after all 440 students, from Kindergarten to Year 6, took part in the school’s first public spea …
Shake and shimmy
More than 40 Sydney Catholic Schools (SCS) have jumped on board a new craze designed to get active while having fun.
The brains behind the fun ‘40-Second Challenge’ is Peta Haynes, the sports coordinator at St Christopher’s Catholic Primary School Panania.
She said she and her colleague …
Giving from the heart
Buddying up spells success
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark,” according to celebrated French romantic author, Victor Hugo.
With this idea in mind Our Lady of Fatima Primary …
Publicity to purpose
For more than 15 years, Laura Neeson owned a successful PR agency. She worked with big fashion, beauty and lifestyle labels but often felt she had to push her faith to the side to fit in.
It was on a life-changing pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina, that the mother-of- …
Out-of-this-world learning
Year 9 students at De La Salle Catholic College Caringbah have built and programmed a robot car – also called an mBOT – that can search for life on Mars.
Their Mars Mission included analysing rock sa …
How to ask ‘R U OK?’
We caught up with CEO of the Mental Health Coordinating Council, Carmel Tebbutt, ahead of RU OK?Day (Thursday, 10 September).
Carmel Tebbutt is perhaps best known for being the first woman to hold the position of Deputy Premier of New South Wales.
The Sydney Catholic Schools’ alumni and fo …
Making learning count
Gifted maths student Tracie Duong, 16, was among 102 students and 24 teachers from Sydney Catholic schools to give up a day of their school holidays to build their problem solving and analytical skills in the lead-up to the new Mathematics HSC.
Formula for success
During National Science Week, we caught up with a Marist Sisters’ College Woolwich graduate who has followed in the footsteps of 20th century scientists Einstein and Rosalind Franklin and made a breakthrough dis …
Reaching out to refugees
Charity begins at home … and ends with nine carloads of donatable goods!
This was the experience of families at St Mary’s Catholic Primary School North Sydney who have show …
Schools stand with Lebanon
Sydney Catholic Schools (SCS) parents have been overcome by people’s show of love and support for Lebanon after a huge explosion shook Beirut on 4 August, killing more than 170 people and injuring thousands.
Is this Australia’s best primary principal?
Sydney Catholic Schools has so many great teachers. One has been recognised at a national level.
Helen Elliott, a Sydney Catholic Schools’ teacher lauded for her extraordinary ability to lead by example, has been named a finalist in the Australian Education Awards 2020, in th …
Applause for our Principals
Say thank you on Australian Primary Principals’ Day.
If you get the chance, take the time to thank your school leaders on August 7, Australian Primary Principals’ Day.
Every day, our primary school principals inspire their teachers and students in our classrooms, staff rooms, and ev …
Help keep your child safe online
While educators were adapting their lessons to teach from afar, Sydney Catholic Schools’ (SCS) Child Protection Team had been bracing for these changes by creating remote learning guidelines to ensure young isolated learners are safe in their (home) school.
“Zoom and Google Hangouts are new m …
Why are the arts so important in school?
The importance of the arts in a well-rounded education is sometimes lost on parents. What they may not realise is that while their child is having fun singing, acting and dancing in the classroom, deep inside the unconscious of their minds something magical is happening.
“While taking part in …
My child is struggling in school
If you are concerned that your child is falling behind at school, it is important to intervene early.
One of the most costly mistakes a parent can make in their child’s education, is to delay dealing with any potential problems. The NSW school curriculum is delivered via learning progressions …
Get your child ready to start school
Sending your child to “big school” can be nerve-wracking, especially when it’s your first child taking that exciting step. But our experts say it doesn’t have to be.
Choosing the right start date for your child, ensuring they’re socially ready, preparing them to learn well and setting up the …
Sky’s the limit when you Zumba
St Francis of Assisi Regional Catholic Primary School Paddington has taken fitness to new heights, offering rooftop Zumba classes.
Zumba instructor and school assistant princi …
Teachers paint a bright future
The term ‘masterpiece’ has taken on a whole new meaning at Our Lady of Mt Carmel Catholic Primary School Mt Pritchard.
Teachers have spent their holidays, weekends, and before and after school …
Blessed are the Zoomers
The coronavirus has seen a growing number of lapsed, irregular and curious churchgoers join a congregation using online technology.
By dipping their toes in digital worship, people can enter a church discretely before making a commitment with their feet, said Sydney Catholic Schools ’ chaplai …
Homelessness in Sydney: Four ways you can help
Sydney Catholic Schools’ Team Leader: Family Educator Project, Meredith Lemos, has been warmed by the empathy and generosity of the Sydney Catholic Schools (SCS) community.
Family Educators have led students, teachers and staff in jointly raising nearly $28,000 for the lay Catholic organisati …