What's On

06 Jul 2022

From CEDP Facebook

We hope everyone's rugged up safe and warm🤗🧤 amid all the cold🥶, wet☔️ weather recently.☃️ Students have certainly been making good use of their pyjamas recently with many of our schools taking part in special pyjama days and winter sleepouts in support of various good causes such as Vinnies NSW Winter Sleepout.😇🥰 "We raised money for homelessness and charity to give others an equal life. We pray that the people of our community will gather and help give people equal life" - written by the 2022 FIAT Team at Holy Family Primary School, East Granville (Samuel, Krista, Trisha, Leonardo, Olivia, Amelia, Thomas) Students from Chisholm Catholic Primary Bligh Park enjoyed lots of fun activities including lolly jar guessing competitions and pyjama designing, all in support of Vinnies.😴😄 Students from St Nicholas of Myra Primary Penrith donated toiletries for Vinnies. Josephine from St Vinnies at Holy Family visited Sacred Heart Primary School Mount Druitt and explained how the donations 🧤🧣from our school 🏫community would help those in the community keep warm this winter.🌟 And students and parents from Our Lady of the Nativity, Lawson NSW' held a special winter sleepout outside, which was covered through this lovely story in the local Blue Mountains Gazette.🤩👏👏👏 https://www.parra.catholic.edu.au/2022-Sleepout

06 Jul 2022

Young achievers honoured

Victoria Carr was crowned Champion of Champions at the inaugural Cumberland Young Champions Awards earlier this month. Over 100 young achievers from all over Cumberland were honoured at an inspirational and glittering awards ceremony.

06 Jul 2022

From CEDP Facebook

Continuing the NAIDOC Week celebrations💛🖤❤️, here's some pictures from the wonderful Aboriginal incursion events recently held at Our Lady of the Way School, Emu Plains.😎😃 Students and staff really enjoyed the presentations by the Muru Mittigar team, including demonstrations on how to throw a boomerang, making clay stories and learning about artefacts. Students especially enjoyed being able to throw some boomerangs themselves.🪃🪃🪃😁 #NAIDOC2022 #NAIDOCWeek #NAIDOC

05 Jul 2022

From CEDP Facebook

😇 This is such a great opportunity for students to connect, ask questions, understand and share faith❤ Year 11 students from Emmaus Catholic College College recently visited St Mary's Cathedral and the Blacktown Osman Mosque, while St Patrick's Marist College and Gilroy Catholic College joined Unity Grammar and Australian Islamic College of Sydney to visit Auburn Gallipoli Mosque and St Patrick’s Cathedral. So wonderful to see students exploring their understanding and appreciation of other faiths and cultures alongside their peers from other schools 🙏.

05 Jul 2022

From CEDP Facebook

This week we Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! 🖤💛❤ As Year 7 students from St John Paul II Catholic College, Schofields & Nirimba learned more about the Aboriginal flag in Term 2, demonstrates our hands-on commitment to celebrating and recognising the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal peoples. #NAIDOC2022 #NAIDOCWeek #NAIDOC

04 Jul 2022

From CEDP Facebook

Such a clever idea for our littlest learners🥺 to experience a day at big school.😎💪💖 Marcus had a great day exploring the lovely community🥰 at St Canice's Primary Katoomba and would like any interested parents or families to take a look too! 😁👋 You can attend this great school's Open Day on the 27th of July from 10:00am - 12:00pm or explore now and take the virtual tour here: https://ceo-web.parra.catholic.edu.au/tourstcaniceskatoomba/

04 Jul 2022

Yarn Up inspires meaningful dialogue

“It’s about sitting together in this circle. In our culture, there’s no hierarchy. This is a circle of friendship, circle of connection, circle of listening” - Julie Waddell, CEDP Jarara Indigenous Education Unit 🖤💛❤️ We are proud of how members of our Catholic community recently gathered at CathWest Innovation College in Mount Druitt for a Yarn Up. We share this great video created by Uncle Roberto to celebrate these opportunities to chat, share ideas and feedback, cultural knowledge, build relationships and support reconciliation 🤝🙏 Read the full story here: https://www.parra.catholic.edu.au/2022-YarnUP #NAIDOCWEEK #NAIDOC2022 #NAIDOC

04 Jul 2022

From CEDP Facebook

03 Jul 2022

From CEDP Facebook

Today we begin a week long celebration for National NAIDOC Week 🖤💛❤️ We embrace the 2022 theme: Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! and look to forward to sharing with you some of the wonderful ways we celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in our schools; not just during NAIDOC Week but throughout the year. We love the artworks created here by St Patrick's Guildford students as they learn more about using Aboriginal symbols in their artwork and storytelling. For more information about NAIDOC Week visit: https://www.naidoc.org.au #NAIDOC2022 #NAIDOCWeek #NAIDOC

02 Jul 2022

From CEDP Facebook

It's awesome seeing so many of our students (and former students) benefiting from Vocational Education and Training (VET) which is certainly the case for those who were finalists at the recent regional NSW Training Awards. Check out some of the great pics from the night: - Holly Zaccaria (Catherine McAuley Westmead) VET in Schools Student of the Year + classmates Macy and Daniella who were finalists. Read their story here: https://www.parra.catholic.edu.au/2022-CMW-VET - Lucinda Boreham (CathWest Innovation College) School-Based Apprentice of the Year - Ammaleah Astruc (former Caroline Chisholm College) Trainee of the Year + Jessica Libreri (former CathWest) who was a finalist. *Special shoutout to 2021 NSW state winner of the VET in Schools Student of the Year Ethan Zammit from St John XXIII Catholic College. You can also check out this fun video from the event featuring all our finalists: https://fb.watch/d_8lSSk0ma/

02 Jul 2022

From CEDP Facebook

HIP, HIP, HOORAY for Yale!😍🤩🥳🎂🎈🎉🐾However the bigger celebration is surely the amazing impact the birthday boy has had on students since arriving at Trinity C.P.S Kemps Creek.🦮🥰☺️ Take a look at the beautiful birthday messages created by students for Yale's 2nd birthday... they highlight perfectly how Yale is helping improve wellbeing for students and staff at this lovely school in Kemps Creek. 😇😍 You can find out more about the caring school community at Trinity CPS here: https://www.trinitykempscreek.catholic.edu.au/About-Us

01 Jul 2022

From CEDP Facebook

Who did a better Maverick & Goose? The teachers or students.🤔🤣🤣 Cyndi Lauper and Olivia Newton-John were also in attendance.😆 Big hair, colourful outfits, legwarmers,🥳👩‍🎤🕺 Our Lady of the Way School, Emu Plains did it all for their super awesome 80's bash🤩🙌 and even used it to donate to a flood-affected school in Lismore, Our Lady Help of Christians. 💞😇🤲 What a wonderful way to wrap up Term 2! We absolutely love it.😍👏👏 Don't their smiles say it all.😁