Levy creates innovative learning environment
The Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle is expected to spend more than $92 million on school infrastructure in 2020, with the Federal and State Governments committing a combined $4m in funding.
Crossing that curricular bridge
St Bede’s Catholic College, Chisholm adopted cross-curricular work and co-teaching in its foundation year in 2018 through the clustering of subjects and teachers.
Spiritual journey to excellence in learning
The newly appointed principal of St Francis Xavier’s College, Hamilton, brings a commitment to the vitality of learning and an understanding he will be surrounded by like-minded passionate educators and learners.
Life can be a beach
Refugee programs offered by the Development and Relief Agency (DARA) continue to expand, providing vital support to new Australian immigrants.
Families, not orphanages
Imagine being 12 years old and living in an orphanage in rural Kenya with no family around you and no other pathway in your life until you turn 18, when you must leave to find your own way in the world. You don’t really know your story and you don’t belong to anyone. You are alone.
Take the chance to respond
As a priest who sat through most of the special commission hearings in Newcastle, and some of the hearings of the royal commission in Sydney, I have heard firsthand of the damage of sexual abuse on those who experienced it.
Of some new ‘things’
Where I lived when I was a teenager, one of the aspirations of many a Catholic schoolboy was to be dating a girl from PLC, the Presbyterian Ladies College.
Jacob’s famished fields
With the prolonged absence of steady rainfall across the country, images of arid and cracked landscapes, dust storms and cattle with bones protruding are commonplace. Hostage to severe weather conditions, the lack of moisture has far-reaching impacts.
