Documentary unearths ANZAC history
Transport app promotes disability access
Bethlehem College Ashfield students have been named the winners of the 2020 NRMA Future of Transport Challenge for an app giving people with a disability better access to trains.
The Tra …
Students light up learning for PNG peers with STEM
An amped-up focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics is breathing new life into the curriculum at McAuley Catholic Primary School Rose Bay.
Dedicated STEM teacher Odette Esber was appointed this year to hone …
Family in focus at Clancy Prize
A vivid portrait of a migrant family, visual reflections on the wisdom and resilience of generations and an exploration of Pablo Picasso’s personal life have taken four major awards at the 21st Clancy Prize for Student Religious Art.
The Clancy Prize is open to student in Years 7 to 12 at sch …
First SCS language Centre of Excellence a success
More than 2,500 students at Sydney Catholic schools have embraced the Japanese language in the virtual world, and their learning journey continues in a real space.
It has been a year since Sydney Catholic Schools’ Japanese C …
Principal power: New faces lead with heart
Catholic Schools Week is a time to celebrate the skills and qualities our dedicated staff bring to their school communities to ensure students grow and thrive in their learning and in life.
While administration comes with the territory for new principals in 2020, at Sydney Cathol …
Catholic Schools Week 2020: faith and learning take centre stage
On the eve of Catholic Schools Week, Executive Director of Sydney Catholic Schools Tony Farley shares why families may choose to embrace and be part of the thriving communities and classrooms that are Sydney Catholic schools.
So why send your child to a Sydney Catholic school …
New confidence: Reading Recovery writes early script for literacy success
Reading Recovery is part of an approach to literacy at SCS that is based on a deep understanding that acquiring it is a complex process.
History-making cricketer leads sports at OLR
With a long appreciation of the opportunities sport provides – for structure, friendship, resilience and life lessons – to stoke his commitment on and off the pitch, Rob Aitken has made first-grade cricket history.
The Year 5 teacher and sports coordinator at Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic P …
Relics reveal kindness in Menai community
Holy Family Catholic Primary School and Aquinas Catholic College Menai students seized the opportunity to be in the presence of three saints when the relics of St Therese of Lisieux and her parents visit …
Kindy teachers on double duty as twins start ‘big school’
Catering for the educational needs of not one, but four, sets of twins is an exciting prospect for the Kindergarten teachers at St Patrick’s Catholic Primary School Mortlake.
The students were among the 62 Kindergarten starters who met their first day of primary school with a smile alongside …
McAuley’s new principal shines at old school
Nicole Jones has become a leader at McAuley Catholic Primary School Rose Bay for the second time in her life, close to 30 years after graduating from its Year 6 class as school captain.
As the school’s new principal, Ms Jones has found that while education has changed dramatically in that time th …
Wellbeing program empowers student leaders
Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School Miranda’s 2020 Year 6 class will hit the ground running as their school’s new leaders, after championing a program that models and rewards positive behavior in their classrooms and playground.
Their values of safety, respect and responsibilit …
Sydney Catholic Schools celebrate top HSC achievements
Sydney Catholic Schools have achieved their best HSC results in five years, with their highest number of students among the state’s course-toppers and all-round achievers.
HSC First in Course 2019: Lessons and success beyond school
Three students from Sydney Catholic Schools have proved that a balanced approach to the HSC is best after receiving First in Course awards while pursuing the things they love.
The awards place them among NSW’s top achievers from the 75,000 students who sat one or more HSC courses this year, a …
Paralympian inspires young sports stars to dream big
Young athletes saw how far the representative sport pathways offered at Sydney Catholic Schools and a determined attitude could take them when St John Bosco College Engadine graduate and paralympian Sarah Walsh spoke at the 19th annual Sydney Archdiocesan Primary Sports Awards.
Sar …
Community at heart of Pope Francis Awards
Year 6 students from Sydney Catholic primary schools have collectively spent more than 17,800 hours this year helping their school and parish communities as part of the Pope Francis Awards.
The effort is the equivalent of 106 weeks, or more than two full years, of volunteering and almost trip …
Peer learning boosts popularity of indigenous performance
The students in Sydney Catholic Schools Performing Arts’ (CaSPA) indigenous ensemble drew on a rich tradition of caring for the earth to give their primary school peers a lesson in Aboriginal culture that is relevant today.
The 2019 Murrawadeen Goodjarga ‘Growing in Culture’ tour visited 12 p …
‘Marathon runners of voice’: Teachers develop vocal skills
Talking for eight hours a day presented few problems for Reyabel Villanueva as a young teaching graduate but after taking on a different grade four years into her career, she began to feel the strain on her voice.
“Being in a Kindergarten classroom for the first time this year, I just felt st …
Drama ensemble leads in theatre for change
Drama has given students from Sydney Catholic schools in this year’s Senior Theatre Works production an outlet for their inner activist.
Seven students performed Revolution Society, a comedy by British playwright Sarah Power about students keen to make a difference where they feel go …
First STEM symposium inspires innovation
Sydney Catholic Schools’ first STEM Symposium and Competition has inspired the creation of more than 100 exciting student projects, including a glove that speaks Australian sign language, a robot turtle designed to prevent pollution, and a search engine for those w …
Brigidine students drive change with electric vehicles
Brigidine College Randwick students have hit the accelerator on an environmental sustainability initiative that brings the number of electric vehicle charging stations in their part of the suburb from zero to two.
Informatio …