Who’s your buddy?
This year I am in the privileged position of having a child in Year 6 and a child starting kindergarten (with another one in between). The reason I feel lucky about this is not just because I will finally get the much coveted school photo featuring all of my kids at once, but because I’ve been able to witness the buddy system at St Benedict’s Primary School, Edgeworth, from two perspectives.
CCSP thank outgoing Education Minister
The peak body representing Catholic school parents in NSW, has thanked the outgoing education minister Adrian Piccoli for his significant contribution to education in NSW over the past six years.
DR MICHAEL SLATTERY: VIDEO welcome from the new Director of Schools
Welcome back to a new school year in our Diocese.
KINDY STARTERS 2017: Seeing doubles (or rather triples) at Abermain
Three sets of twins will be starting ‘big school’ at Holy Spirit Infants School, Abermain next Friday. Fraternal twins Lucy and Thomas and Peta and Jimmy will join identical twins Hugh and Flynn in Kindergarten on February 3.
Superstar of Ballet
Year 8 student, Hannah Finley of St Paul’s High School, Booragul, has achieved great success in her dancing and drama in 2016 and 2017 is looking just as promising.
Strong is your only choice
Some will recall the June Aurora cover depicting teacher Michael Eccleston and students from St Joseph’s Lochinvar participating in #3weeks2days, an imaginative honouring of John Sandy’s walk for three weeks and two days in order to make a phone call to his wife. John came to Australia as a refugee from Sierra Leone and is now a project officer with CatholicCare Refugee Service.
Our Lady of Lourdes visit Happy Healthy Harold
Last month, students of Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School, Tarro, took their annual trip to the Life Education Centre, Edgeworth, to learn some valuable lessons about their health.
The times they are a changing…
“Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!” St Catherine of Siena.