St Joseph’s students have bags of attitude!
Teacher Jo Williams felt strongly that she could give children a variety of practical tools to empower them to self-regulate and understand their feelings when they were experiencing anxiety or anger − so she wrote a Well Being Program.
Stay awake to hear the voices of those who need you
During the recent school holidays, my wife, Alison, and I led an immersion to Kesheni which was facilitated by local Edmund Rice Education Beyond Borders members in Kenya. Appropriately, Kesheni means ‘stay awake’ in Swahili.
Are you ready for a spa day for the mind?
Aurora invited Bronwyn Melville, Pastoral Care Worker at St Pius X High School and Chair of the Parent Education Working Party of the Federation of Parents and Friends, to share a new initiative of the Federation.
Achieving HSC success: tips for students and parents
The Higher School Certificate (HSC) examinations will soon be here for thousands of local students, their teachers and family members. As a teacher of HSC students for many years and having my own two children take on the challenge, I know first-hand that the next two months will be a trying time for all involved. The HSC exams begin on 16 October with students receiving their results on 14 December.
St Dominic’s responds to community need
From 2018, St Dominic’s Centre, Mayfield (formerly St Dominic’s Centre for Hearing Impaired Children), will begin to offer a schooling option for students diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. This decision is a direct response to local community need.
Six in 10 teens have a career in mind
Despite only being halfway through their secondary schooling, 60 percent of 14 and 15 year olds say they know what job they would like to have once they’ve completed their education, new Australian Institute of Family Studies research has found.
DR MICHAEL SLATTERY: Fathers Day
A very Happy Fathers Day to all the dads of the students in our diocesan schools.
St Mary’s presents Escape to Everywhere
It was easy for audience members to forget they were sitting in the Civic Theatre on Wednesday 29 August as the students of St Mary’s Primary School, Warners Bay, took them on an engaging musical adventure in ‘Escape to Everywhere’.