
Cultural diversity celebrated at colourful Children’s Festival

The Catholic Schools Music Festival has wrapped for another year.
Running from September 20 to 23 in 2021, the annual festival brings together approximately 1400 students from Catholic schools across South Australia to showcase their vast musical gifts.
Innovative students from across Adelaide have come together for the inaugural CESA STEM MAD Showcase.
The Showcase is the culmination of months of work by students in Years 4 to 12 across Catholic Education SA (CESA) to design a product, service or innovation to Make A Difference (MAD) to others or the environment.
Over 300 students from 34 Catholic schools across SA attended a breakfast celebrating Women in STEM, supported by Optus.
Catholic Education South Australia partnered with the communications giant to host the event for students, industry and educators, designed to provide girls with role models who currently work in STEM occupations.
Young people aged 17 to 24 can now enrol at a unique new Catholic school opening next year in the northern suburbs.
Excitement is building at Davoren Park, as Compass Catholic Community achieved significant milestones in the past month, with enrolments for 2022 opening, construction now well underway, and branding released.
Principal Kelly Bunyon said the response to Compass so far has been “overwhelmingly positive”.
Three students from Catholic schools have been named among the winners in the 2021 Premier’s Anzac Spirit School Prize Competition.
The Catholic Church in Australia marks Safeguarding Sunday on the second Sunday of September - at the conclusion of National Child Protection Week.
Catholic Education SA has been named among the winners in the 2021 SA Child Protection Awards that recognise the contributions government, non-government and philanthropic partners have made to improve the lives of families, children and young people.
CESA has been awarded for its scholarship program which provides scholarships to 200 children and young people to attend Catholic primary and secondary schools across the state.
St Brigid’s Catholic School, Evanston and St Catherine’s School, Stirling have been named among the winners in the 2021 Coles Sustainability4Schools Competition in recognition of their sustainability initiatives.
First launched in 2016, the Charter for Staff in Catholic Schools South Australia has been re-launched in 2021.
The Charter guides the way staff within Catholic Education SA interact and work with students, colleagues, parents, school community, professionals and other school community members.
The South Australian Commission for Catholic Schools invites input into the Student Inclusion and Diversity Policy (draft) together with the associated document From Policy into Practice: Strategies, Procedures and Guidelines (draft).