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Eastern suburb’s new co-ed school
Preparations are well underway as Champagnat Catholic College readies itself to transition from a high school for boys to the first co-educational Catholic secondary college in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Enrolments for boys and girls are now being accepted for 2023 and every intake year after that will be co-ed, said Principal Craig Mooney, an experienced Principal who previously led the co-educational De La Salle Catholic College Cronulla and has held leadership positions in four other large co-educational colleges. "We’re excited to be bringing more choice to parents in the area who want to experience a quality Catholic education for...
Principal’s bald fundraising move
Inspired by the courage of Nicholas, a Year 1 student currently receiving treatment for leukaemia, St Michael’s Catholic Primary School Meadowbank principal Brian Story has had his head shaved for the World’s Greatest Shave. And the entire school community has got behind him and helped him raise more than $21,000 for the Leukaemia Foundation, making him their eighth top shaver!* “I’m very, very touched,” said Nick’s mum, Janet Chrisafulli, who watched as Nicholas, better known as Nick, took a clipper to his principal’s head spurred on by his brother Leo and all his classmates who enthusiastically chanted “World’s...
Photo Gallery: Go Inside Marist Penshurst
The incredible makeover of Marist Catholic College Penshurst is nearing completion. These photos (below) offer you a glimpse of the exciting new changes. The seven stage Marist building program is due to be completed by September 2021, bringing with it new learning areas, specialist spaces – and a new school hall. “The multi-functional space, that has a state-of-the-art NBA (National Basketball Association) style playing surface, serves both as a hall and an indoor court,” Sydney Catholic Schools’ Project Delivery Specialist, Oje Ativie, said. School Principal, Ray Martin, said the adaptive building design of the new classrooms would...
