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SPORT UPDATE 🏏 The following cricket selection events have had a date change, please update your records!!![]()
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NSWCCC Boys U/19 Cricket Selections![]()
Date moved to: 23rd – 24th February 2021![]()
Venue: Lance Hutchinson Oval, Riverwood![]()
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NSWCCC Girls Cricket Selections![]()
Date moved to: 3rd March 2021![]()
Venue: Lance Hutchinson Oval, Riverwood![]()
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When your child is playing games and making music, they are learning about sounds, letters, rhymes, shapes and numbers!![]()
Do you know that a positive transition to school sets up your child for success at school? Visit the Early Years Foundations for Learning website designed to assist you and your child with a strong start to school earlyyears.csnsw.catholic.edu.au/
MEDIA RELEASE: Expert Teachers New Ingredient in Curriculum Reform via Sarah Mitchell MLC.![]()
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The Catholic school sector is represented by 73 teachers in the Teacher Expert Networks referred to in the announcement below 😊
The Catholic school sector will spend $173 million on new facilities and upgrades for 36 of its schools 📸 via Daily Telegraph![]()
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The Catholic school system will spend $173 million to upgrade 36 of its schools, most of them in Sydney’s southwest and northwest.![]()
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As well as building new facilities, the money will also be for a backlog of maintenance and refurbishment.![]()
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Revamped and expanded schools will be dotted throughout Sydney’s southwest from Lakemba to Edmondson Park and across to Engadine and Riverwood.![]()
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In the city’s northwest schools in Marsden Park, Castle Hill, Baulkham Hills, South Windsor and Llandilo will undergo construction.![]()
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Schools in regional and rural NSW are also part of the building blitz, from Mullumbimby in the north to Oak Flats in the south and as far west as Bourke.![]()
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As well as replacing aged and dysfunctional classrooms, the schools will get everything from cafes to greenhouses and computer fabrication laboratories.![]()
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The Catholic school system is getting back enrolments it began losing from early 2018 in the wake of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, when some families turned to private schools. A year later the state government committed a record $6.7 billion during the current term of government to building and renovating 190 public schools.![]()
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Catholic Schools NSW boss Dallas McInerney said his organisation needed to play catch-up to maintain and grow its enrolments.![]()
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“The Royal Commission impacted on enrolments, but we have since stabilised and there are indications we’re climbing back,” Mr McInerney said.![]()
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“We also dropped because our competitors came at us hard and we didn’t respond in time. The state schools started a big capital push two years before we did.![]()
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“We have to do more with less but we have gotten smarter with our spend using a more sophisticated approach to the planning and design of our schools.”![]()
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One way the Catholic system hopes to gain a competitive edge is by building preschools, primary and secondary on the same site.![]()
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The building works were made possible with $300 million from the state coffers, which is to be spread out over four years.![]()
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At Oran Park, in one of Sydney’s fastest-growing areas, St Justin’s Primary School is expanding on the same site as St Benedict’s. Both schools will share a new hall at the start of next term as part of the staged construction.![]()
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“The investment means we can offer families a truly outstanding education just minutes from where they live,” Principal Kevin Devine said.![]()
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Read the full story & check out the school tool via the link below:![]()
www.dailytelegraph.com.au/education/catholic-schools-nsw-to-splash-173-million-in-building-blitz-...
Advice from the experts: What’s one thing that helps you to be happy at school? Watch this short video for some expert advice from the kindergarten class of 2020! Click here for further advice earlyyears.csnsw.catholic.edu.au/resource/#videoId