SHOWCASE
News from our schools
Classroom comes to parents
To reduce separation anxiety caused by parents being unable to enter school grounds due to COVID-19, this school created a way to bring the classroom outside the school gates.
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 discovery of her own. Meet Dr Linda Thomas. Dr Thomas developed a passion for asking questions at a young age, never imagining it could lead to a career as a clinical psychologist and mucosal immunologist. Or that she might one day be quoted in her field. The human body. Photo: Robina Weermeijer on Unsplash. “Commencing with the first black box, our brain and our mind,...
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 the category of Primary Principal of the Year - Non-government. “It’s very humbling and rewarding to be recognised in this way,” All Hallows Catholic Primary School Five Dock principal Helen Elliott said. Mrs Elliott has worked for the Sydney Catholic school system for more than 40 years, 11 of them as a principal. She was...
