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Watch it together: New Holy Week children’s video
Join acclaimed musician John Burland and Sydney Catholic Schools’ Education Officer: Church Engagement, Cheryl Fernandez, as they take us on a journey through Holy Week in a new family video. Free to watch online, the Holy Week video is brought to you by Sydney Catholic Schools’ Mission and Identity team. It is part of an ongoing YouTube series titled Faith, Fun and Celebration. The Holy Week episode incorporates Scripture, doctrine, song and prayer to remember and reflect on this very special time in the Church year. Faith, Fun and Celebration Faith, Fun and Celebration began as a zoom...
Project Compassion: ‘The donations keep getting better each year’
A fun in-school coin challenge has helped raise nearly $1000 for Project Compassion, while teaching students the benefits of giving back. Students in all six houses at Mount St Joseph Milperra dug deep in their pockets for the Caritas Australia annual appeal raising much-needed funds for people living in poverty. Part of the challenge was to also see which house could make the longest coin line with its donated coins. Mount St Joseph Milperra students inspect each others’ lines of coins. For the third straight year Penola had the longest coin line, which is apt considering their...
Deep interest in new water polo competition
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 Sydney Catholic Schools competition for Marcellin College Randwick, just hours after competing at the State Championships Nippers (U9-U12’s) in Manly. The goal gave Marcellin an early lead over Holy Cross College Ryde in the weekly competition, which launched on 24 February. “I am confident that the weekly competition will only get bigger and better as time goes on” - Sean Mullaly Zenn’s father Joel said...
