A Tribute to Penny Penhall OAM
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80 people gathered on Wednesday 22 July at the Grange Golf Club for the launch of CESA’s ‘Children: Close to the Mystery of God’ stimulus paper. The publication is the result of 18 month’s work by the ‘Theology of the Child’ Working Party. It describes the profound value in which the Catholic theological tradition holds children and childhood. The document reflects a facet of CESA’s Reimagining Childhood initiatives.
Dr Stephen Kelly, Secondary Literacy Consultant at the Catholic Education Office, was recently awarded the degree Doctor of Philosophy from the Queensland University of Technology. Stephen’s graduation ceremony was on 22 July at the Performing Arts Centre in Brisbane. As a member of the literacy team Stephen takes a special interest in supporting schools to research the place of questioning and dialogue between learners -leaders, teachers and students- when reading texts and preparing to write. In this work Stephen is interested in supporting learning as a democratic process that enables critically discerning citizens.
On a cold July night, parents, educators and school leaders gathered in the Catherine Community Centre at the Nazareth Catholic Community primary campus for a conversation with Carla Rinaldi.
On Monday 29 June, six Christian Brothers College students were invited to attend the UniSA Magill campus for the State Finals of the Brain Bee Challenge and they won the Team challenge!
Dr Paul Sharkey returned to the Catholic Education SA Conference Centre, Thebarton on Friday where over 80 people gathered for the launch of his book “Educator’s Guide to Catholic Identity”. In his book Paul describes practical ways Australian schools are developing their pastoral care programs, curriculum, liturgy and teaching approaches to enhance their Catholic identity.
Once again braving a cold night outdoors, Anne Spencer, Languages Consultant at the Catholic Education Office completed her fifth sleep-out for the homeless as part of Vinnies Winter sleepout last Thursday Night. Cardboard boxes were the only wind-break as leaders hunkered down for the night. This year, Anne along with 90 other community leaders, slept in Victoria Square raising over half a $million between them.
The Ministry and Liturgy Centre (MLC), which houses the offices of the Ministry Formation Program and the Office for Worship, was dedicated and blessed at a beautiful ceremony on 30 June 2015. The celebration was led by Rev Dr Philip Marshall, Vicar General.
Over 25 reception children celebrated their 100th day at St Anthony’s School Edwardstown today! This morning Reception and Year 1 students and staff dressed as 100 year olds, made paper chains with 100 loops, built a castle out of 100 paper cups and made crowns to wear showing 100 candles on a cake. Students were set the challenge of building something out of 100 foam noodle pieces, 100 coloured sticks and painting one hundred dots in sets of 10.
The staff of St Joseph’s, St Thomas and St Therese’ Schools are witnessing amazing engagement and fantastic results from the unique and valuable Cluster Enrichment Program. Reflecting on the program, staff at St Joseph’s Kingswood decided to provide this experience across the whole school. Out of this excitement the Early Years and Primary Enrichment Programs evolved.
The Federation of Catholic School Parent Communities (SA) 2015 Tom Ffrench Award for Parent Leadership in a Catholic Education SA school was announced during the Federation’s Annual Conference on 30 May 2015.
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