News & Events

Dear Friends of St Paul’s,

We are in week eight of term three already and the year is flying by. As always, the College is full of vitality, energy and experiencing wonderful celebrations. The highlight for us over the last week or so was the Reception Rite of Welcome Celebration that we held this week on Monday afternoon. Over the last few years, St Paul’s has been continuing to develop an overall “Rites of Passage” programme that begins with this Reception Rite of Welcome and ends with our Year 12’s graduation celebrations (which are not far away now.) These celebrations are a significant part of our acknowledgement that students go through several stages in their lives, while here with us, and that we need to celebrate those, acknowledge their importance, and use them to continue both our holistic approach to education as well as strengthening our three-way partnership with students, families and staff.

The Reception Rite of Welcome is both a beautiful liturgy with prayers and readings as well as a symbolic presentation to the students of an incredibly special plant. This year we presented each student and their family representatives with a raspberry plant and hope that they will plant, care for, and nurture this plant throughout their 13-year journey with us, as we will for them. A special thanks must go to Ms Kristynn Ross (Primary Years Religious Identity leader) and our three reception teachers, Ms Victoria Romeo, Ms Amy Barone, and Ms Ashley Bell as well as all Primary staff for their wonderful care of the students.

We will write more of the other Rites of passage as they are celebrated but we have them for our Yr. 3’s, Yr.6’s as they move out of the Primary Years, Yr. 9’s as they move out of the Middle Years and as mentioned in Yr. 12 for Graduation. Each of these has an incredibly significant message for the students, families and of course the staff. It is a blessing to be able to do these from our catholic perspective as well, which highlights the fact that each one of us is made in the image of God, and that is worth celebrating!

2023 – Planning and Preparation

While still in term three of the year we are quite feverishly preparing for 2023. It is the time of the year when we prepare budgets, advertise for staff, and followed all those procedures to make sure we employ the absolute best teachers and support staff we can, to assist us and join us in this amazing vocation we share.

We will share more news about staffing over the coming weeks. It continues to be exciting times at the College

Take care,

God Bless
Paul Belton