News & Events

Dear Friends of St Paul’s

What a term!

Over the last two years we have all had to live with the challenges of our new COVID world. Term 1 2022 has been by far the most challenging of these. Our community, like many schools has been hit extremely hard with the sheer numbers of staff and students who have either contracted the illness or have been deemed close contacts and forced into isolation. Every level of our staff from senior leadership to all sections of our ESO staff have been impacted. This has caused many significant challenges and our staff lead so admirably by our Deputy Principal, Josh Foulis and our amazing College Organiser Ms Bonnie Phillips have navigated our way through a myriad of relief lessons and juggling of staff to ensure a sense of continuity in learning and commitment to the student has been maintained. While we should mention more than just a few, Mr Foulis and Ms Phillips have worked tirelessly and been of huge support to the staff, all of whom, in turn, have been formidable.

At the beginning of the year, we welcomed over twenty-five fresh staff and their introduction to the College could not have come at a more challenging time. Each of them has made a significant contribution to the College and we thank them sincerely. Ms Marianne Loftus as Head of the Primary, Ms Nadia Morris as Head of Teaching and Learning in the Primary, Mr Joe Hicks as APRIM and Mr Matthew Muscat as Head of Teaching and Learning in the Middle and Senior Years have excelled in their senior leadership roles and laid the foundation for continued growth and development across the College.

Co-education success

The 2022 year also signalled the beginning of a new era for the College as we welcomed young girls in all year levels from Reception to Year 8. This has been an outstanding success, due to the diligent work by many staff, through eleven different working parties, which explored and researched all structures, procedures and programs that would make this stage in our proud history, successful. We should congratulate Ms Donna Nguyen in her role as Transition Coordinator and Mr Nick Callary as Head Student Development whose preparation and ongoing work with and support of the girls has been outstanding

Building challenges and progress

Another of our challenges this term was the delay in the finishing of both our main courtyard and the sports and learning centre. This delay caused staff, students, and classes to be relocated to different and some unusual spots. The great news is that we have received our Certificate of Occupancy to the new building, and we have started moving in and classes will begin in there by week two of next term.

We also hope to be announcing some more exciting news in terms of building development early next term. Our continued growth and development have resulted in unprecedented demand on enrolments and this in turn has provided us with the opportunity to provide even better resources for our families and broader community.

Thank you

On behalf of the senior leadership team of the College I would really like to thank all our staff, students and families for their ongoing support and commitment to making St Paul’s such a wonderful community. Despite the challenges of the term, it continues to be an amazingly positive and welcoming family environment. Have an incredibly happy and very Holy Easter season and relaxing holiday period. May the joys of the risen Christ bring much happiness to you all.

God Bless

Paul Belton