Our Lady of Mercy College (OLMC) Burraneer has welcomed a new high profile mentor for students as part of a strengthened future-focused learning approach.
SBS and BBC World News journalist, Tanya Dendrinos, spoke to the coll …
A ‘Healthy Kids Pitch’ has kick-started a renewed wellbeing and fitness focus at St Peter Chanel Catholic Primary School – and their passion for health has not gone unnoticed.
Four Champagnat Catholic College Pagewood staff have received 2022 Teacher’s Guild of NSW Awards in recognition of their outstanding work in Mathematics, English and Human Society and its Environment (HSIE).
From digital publishing opportunities for students to givin …
A dynamic education master plan for Catholic schools in Matraville and Pagewood has been fast-tracked, with the new Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School Matraville to open a year ahead of schedule in January 2023.
The school is an amalgamation of the current St Agnes’ Catholic Primary School …
To mark the beginning of their careers and acknowledge a positive start to the 2022 school year, Sydney Catholic Schools held a Commissioning Mass for all its beginner teachers at St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney.
The Mass, held …
Students at McAuley Catholic Primary School Rose Bay showed that their sense of social justice runs deep by assembling emergency water filters for use in central African refugee camps.
The year 5 and 6 students drew on the s …
Joining the junior school of St Mary’s Cathedral College Sydney marks the beginning of an enriching experience with a specialist music and academic education that is highly rewarding.
The St Mary’s Cathedral Junior Sc …
With memorable goals and help from water polo’s elite, Sydney Catholic Schools’ (SCS) first inter-school water polo competition is already making a splash.
Zenn Pemberton scored the first-ever boys’ water polo goal in the Sy …
The St Mary’s Catholic Primary School Georges Hall community has held true to the famous words of their patron, Saint Mary-Mackillop, to support flood relief efforts in NSW.
New Youth Ministry Coordinators have been inducted into their roles including Sydney Catholic Schools’ first primary school-based Youth Ministry Coordinator.
All 16 Youth Ministry Coordinators (YMCs) were formally inducted during an Archdioc …
Three Sydney Catholic Schools graduates have earned a place in prestigious HSC visual arts showcase ARTEXPRESS this year.
From sculpture to hyper-real drawings, the artists share the ideas and challenges behind their dynamic …
Maria Soliman is ahead of the curve after achieving phenomenal results in two HSC mathematics exams a year before graduating high school.
The Bethlehem College Ashfield accelerated mathematics student achieved marks of 99% and 98% in Mathematics Advanced …
Mary MacKillop Catholic College Wakeley has welcomed six – yes, SIX! – sets of Year 7 twins this school term.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, it is the first time in the college’s 30-year history that there have been so many twins in the one year group.
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A sector-blind education initiative to help Year 12 students give their HSC Design and Technology major projects a life beyond the classroom is gaining momentum across NSW.
UpRising is the brainchild of Sydney Catholic Scho …
John Coppola planned to use his piano and songwriting skills in a music career, before following his heart into teaching and then a Religious Education Coordinator role at Trinity Catholic College Auburn.
“In my early 20’s I …
Bethlehem College Ashfield Year 8 students – Nia, Emma, Caitlin, Lucia and Benedicta – have imagined an information campaign to protect West Papua’s critically endangered leatherback turtles.
Their ‘pitch for the planet’, at The Orbispace In …
Featuring a Biology superlab, balcony rainforest and woodlands ecosystems, St Patrick’s College Sutherland’s new Alpha Crucis building is a game-changer for the sciences and applied studies.
The innovative building design is the result of a collaboration …
Sydney Catholic school students have presented a reflective and vibrant take on Christmas scripture for the 2021 Christmas Story Art Exhibition and Competition.
Close to 600 students in Year 5 and 6 from schools in the Archd …
A holiday musing when travelling across San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge has turned into a STANSW Young Scientist Award for Year 11 student Hayden Westwood.
The Science Teachers’ Association of NSW (STANSW) Rowe Sci …
What can a group of long-dead philosophers teach a student today? The answer is plenty.
Amid the more prescriptive elements of the NSW curriculum, two Sydney Catholic schools have created imaginative and intelligent courses to develop their students’ crit …
From resilience to a powerful ‘brain boost’, parents, students and teachers are seeing the many benefits of learning an orchestral instrument as part of the groundbreaking Amadeus Music Education Program.
Nidal Abou Arrage remembers the February day in 20 …
Auslan meets Yawuru language in St Mary – St Joseph Catholic Primary School Maroubra’s virtual choir rendition of ‘I Am Australian’. Watch it here:
A group of 50 students in Years 3 to 6 at the school lent their voices to the virtual choir, singing Bruc …
The cliche, ‘your eyes will go square’ rings true in lockdown. So writes winner of the 2021 UNSW Bragg Student Prize for Science Writing winner, St John Bosco student Emilia Danne.
In her response to the 2021 theme The STEM in Everyday Life, Year 8 studen …
St Clare’s College Waverley is officially one of the most innovative schools in Australia.
The college features in The Educator’s 5 …
Is your child excessively self-critical, afraid of doing a task ‘wrong’ or prone to taking a while to bounce back from disappointment? They could be struggling with perfectionism.
Jan Robinson speaks regularly to students and teachers about the difference …
Sydney Catholic Schools’ Director of Mission and Identity, Anthony Cleary, discusses the unique wellbeing ‘lift’ that spirituality can bring in times of challenge, such as during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Farming may not be the first thing that comes to your …
St Agnes’ Catholic Primary School Matraville students have achieved honours in their first foray into problem-solving competition Tournament of Minds.
In …
Concord’s vibrant new ‘spoonville’ village is bringing the community together – one spoon at a time – under the creative power of St Mary’s Catholic Primary School.
Students, teachers and …
The 2021 International Day of the Girl Child – on Monday, 11 October – marks five years since the United Nations’ Gender Equality Forum called for governments, corporations and change-makers around the globe to make bolder moves towards gender equality.
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Hannah McMahon has lent her voice to more than a few Church youth groups and events.
She has completed more than 300 hours of community service, building on the 20 hours her Salesian school asks students to complete for com …
After he’d accrued enough volunteer hours for his Duke of Edinburgh Award, Christopher Hamilton kept up a commitment to preparing audio visual presentations for Mass at his parish. He could see it helped the parish staff.
It …
Gabriel Liu joined the Adopt-A-Park program with his family a few years ago, and helps to clean up his neighbourhood park once a month.
It is among the reasons the Eileen O’Connor Catholic College Lewisham student has recei …
A desire to raise awareness of mental health inspired 2021 Archbishop’s Awards for Student Excellence recipient, Julia Trassari, to host a whole-school push up challenge in June 2021.
The modest goal – to do a collective 3,3 …
The Year 12 students who received an Archbishop’s Award for Student Excellence this year are no strangers to the power of faith and action.
Each year, the awards acknowledge the commitment to their faith, academic life, comm …
Kindergarten students are taking remote learning in their stride, just months after starting their ‘big school’ adventure at Sydney Catholic primary schools. Year 1 students are used to learning online for a while – and are building their independence every day.
They let you travel without moving your feet, and you can think of books – lots of them – as your child’s passport to learning.
Teacher librarian at All Hallows Catholic Primary School Five Dock, Sharon Seymour, also reviews books for the Children’s Book Council of Australia.
Here are her …
Students at St Charles’ Catholic Primary School Waverley have embraced ‘a novel idea.’
About one in six of the school’s students are part of three before-school enrichment groups for students identified as gifted in literacy.
The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s (CBCA) 2021 shortlist is full of tales to take you away this Book Week and beyond.
Escape between the pages of these ‘Book of the Year’ contenders recommended by All Hallows Catholic Primary school teacher librarian, Sharon Seymour, and St Ursula’s C …
St Andrew’s Catholic Primary School Malabar’s book club for parents is made of the write stuff.
The book club was started in 2016 by the school’s then-Family Educator, Brenda Smith, to give parents a relaxed environment to connect with others.
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Two teacher librarians from Sydney Catholic schools share insights into their role.
Sharon Seymour, a teacher librarian at All Hallows Catholic Primary School Five Dock, reviews books for the Children’s Book Council of Australia and Premier’s Reading Chal …
Ever tried to build something as tall as a child out of just newspaper and masking tape? Or to make a model water slide better than one at a theme park?
More than 60 families at St Pius Catholic Primary School Enmore have e …
Need a ‘brain break’ or just some inspo to get moving in lockdown?
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School Randwick PDHPE teacher and wellbeing coordinator, Ry Kato, has you …
Students spoke with a confidence and clarity that left their teachers and parents in awe at the semi-final of the 2021 Botany-Randwick Public Speaking competition. Now, 13 progress to the grand final!
The inaugural Botany-Randwick Public Speaking Competit …
St Patrick’s College Sutherland student leaders have found the answer to staying focused and up beat at the end of a school week: Feel Good Fridays!
On Feel Good Fridays, students from all grades have joined dance, skipping, …
James Tirado has cone-rod dystrophy and visual acuity of 6/60.
This means he sees with the same clarity most people see across 60 metres in just 6 metres, and is very sensitive to light.
Sydney Catholic Schools’ (SCS) primary school students are encouraged to exercise their imaginations and writing skills in this year’s WriteOn competition. We sat down with our past SCS winners who shared their tips for success.
They are only in Year 3 bu …
A professional learning conference has highlighted the diversity of teacher librarian roles at Sydney Catholic schools, and how they are empowering students as literacy evolves.
Sydney Catholic schools teacher-librarians were among nearly 100 Catholic and …
Students from 92 schools will grace the stage in more than 400 solo and ensemble instrumental, drama, dance and choir performances, as part of Sydney Catholic Schools’ first Eisteddfod.
The Eisteddfod will be held over four Fridays at Sydney Catholic Scho …
Six years after Pope Francis wrote his encyclical letter on care for the environment, students at St Charles’ Catholic Primary School Waverley are embracing the lessons in it, to make their school more sustainable.
St Charles are leading plans to make the …
