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Education

NAPLAN scores soar after return to old-school teaching methods

A Catholic school cluster has shot to success in this year’s NAPLAN results, after abandoning failed teaching fads through the nation’s biggest experiment in the science of learning. Source: The Australian.

Education

Catholic boys school joins fight against gender-based violence

A Catholic boys school in Ballarat, Victoria, is taking part in a program organised by a local community health service to help drive change in the fight against gender-based violence. Source: ABC News.

Education

Education program empower Indigenous leaders of tomorrow

A Townsville Catholic Education program that empowers students to become proud, confident and capable leaders of tomorrow by addressing educational disadvantages faced by First Nations students has been extended.

Appointment Education

Two new enrolments for class of 2025

Catholic Schools NSW is set to start the new year with two new members of its leadership team as Marita Winters and Jeremy Gasperov start with the peak body in January. Source: The Catholic Weekly.

Education

Study finds serious school incidents taking toll on principals

More than 80 per cent of Australian principals have experienced critical incidents in their schools including violent security threats, mental health crises, suicide attempts and medical emergencies, new Australian Catholic University research shows.

Education Pope Francis

Schools should be centres of formation, not achievement factories: Pope

Culture and education must go hand-in-hand to form students into agents of social change driven by hope, Pope Francis said yesterday. Source: CNS.

Education

Principles blueprint to support changes in diocese

Catholic Schools Broken Bay’s new incorporated structure from 2025 will be supported by a “Shared Mission Principles” document to protect and strengthen Catholic education in the diocese.

Digital Life Education

Catholic school chatbot filters lessons through religious lens

A world-first Catholic school chatbot is filtering lessons through a religious lens while saving teachers nearly two hours a day in preparing lesson plans, marking assignments and even writing report cards. Source: The Australian. 

Education

College celebrates its past while looking to the future

St Paul’s Catholic College, Manly, celebrated its 95th anniversary on Friday but the school has its eyes on the future as it prepares to welcome girls and its first female principal in 2025. Source: Catholic Schools Broken Bay.