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Alyssa Faith
Alyssa Faith was the Communications Manager for the Catholic Schools Office, Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle from 2016 - 2017 and a regular contributor to Aurora and mnnews.today.
Catholic school principals from across NSW came together Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (24 – 26 May) at the Crowne Plaza in Pokolbin for the 2017 Association of Catholic School Principals (ACSP) State Conference.
On Wednesday, 24 May, 400 Catholic primary school students from across the Maitland region gathered for a special sporting gala day at Maitland Park to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the death of boxing legend, Les Darcy.
St Francis Xavier’s College graduate, Sam Harrison, was earlier this year awarded 2016 Dux of the Diocese, with an ATAR of 99.50. You may be interested to learn that Sam actually chose a Catholic education for himself.
Diocesan principals and student leaders, members of the Catholic Schools Council and Catholic Schools Office (CSO) staff gathered at St Joseph’s College, Lochinvar on Thursday, 27 May, for the launch of the new CSO Learning Framework.
On Friday, March 17, the school community of St Joseph’s Primary School, Charlestown, joined over 1,810 schools across Australia to say “Bullying. No Way!” for the seventh National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence.