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05 Jun 2025
From CSPD Instagram
This is how you combine collaboration, creativity and catering! 🍟🤝 Year 9 Young Entrepreneurs and Food Technology students at Marian Catholic College Kenthurst recently worked on the final stages of their Food Truck Project. 👨🍳👩🍳🚛🚚 The students needed to work together on designing a unique food truck concept, complete with marketing strategies, financial and operational plans. 🤝📈 Each group then pitched their ideas to a panel of Shark Tank-style judges in an attempt to secure “investment dollars”.📑💰 And the best part was when they cooked the delicious menu items they’d serve. Yum! 🥞🍔🥙🥰 #catholicschoolsparramattadiocese #parracatholic #westernsydney #bluemountains #kenthurst #foodtechnologystudents #foodtrucks @mariancatholiccollege
04 Jun 2025
From CSPD Instagram
It was amazing🤩😎 to have former NRL player Will Smith🏉 and NRLW player Taneka Todhunter🏉 as special guests at CSPD's National Reconciliation Week (NRW) breakfast at Patrician Brothers' College, Blacktown last week.🖤💛❤️ As NRW 2025 draws to a close, one key message is the importance of sharing Indigenous culture, history and achievements with each other and especially young people who are crucial to keeping that culture alive and "Bridging Now to Next". @reconciliationaus #Reconciliation #NRW2025 #BridgingNowtoNext #VoicesForReconciliation #SolidRock @patsblacktown #cspd2025 #catholicschoolsparramattadiocese #parracatholic #westernsydney #parramatta #reconciliation #NRW2025 #blacktown #culture #indigenous
03 Jun 2025
From CSPD Facebook
I am, you are, we are Australian...it's so inspiring to see vibrant school multicultural celebrations like the one held recently at St Patrick's Guildford. 🌍✨ The school came alive with colour, music and unity as students proudly wore traditional dress or colours representing their heritage 🇮🇳🇨🇳🇫🇯🇵🇭🇸🇦🇳🇬🇧🇷 showcasing the beautiful diversity within the school community. What a powerful celebration of identity and pride! Our Catholic schools are places of welcome and inclusion, where all cultures are celebrated and respected. 🇦🇺🤝 Learn more about the St Patrick's community by following them on Instagram and Facebook, or visiting their website: ==> stpatsguildford.catholic.edu.au/why-us
03 Jun 2025
From CSPD Instagram
Standing together as one! We were so inspired by the vibrant multicultural celebration held recently at St Patrick's Primary Guildford.🌍✨ The school came alive with colour, music and unity as students proudly wore traditional dress or colours representing their heritage 🇮🇳🇨🇳🇫🇯🇵🇭🇸🇦🇳🇬🇧🇷 showcasing the beautiful diversity within the school community. What a powerful celebration of identity and pride! Our Catholic schools are places of welcome and inclusion, where all cultures are celebrated and respected. 🇦🇺🤝 Learn more about the St Patrick's community by following them on Instagram and Facebook, or visiting their website. @stpatricksprimaryguildford #cspd2025 #catholicschoolsparramattadiocese #parracatholic #westernsydney #multicultural #diversity #inclusion #guildford
02 Jun 2025
From CSPD Instagram
It warms our heart to see so many of our proud Indigenous students and staff paying their respects, remembering and honouring the incredible sacrifice and service given by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander veterans.❤️🖤💛 Attending the 2025 Indigenous Veterans Commemoration Service at Hyde Park🌺, students and staff, let by the Jarara Cultural Centre, laid wreaths and heard some powerful stories about the significant role Indigenous veterans played in serving and protecting our nation. ❤️🖤💛 It's estimated than more than 3,500 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples served in the First and Second World Wars but the exact number will never be known because ethnicity was not noted on enlistment documents.❤️🩹 They went on to serve in Korea, Malaya, Borneo and Vietnam and continue to serve in all branches of the Australian Defence Force in conflicts and other operations around the world.👏👏 Lest We Forget 🌺🌺🌺 @xavierllandilo @penolaemuplains @stlukesmp @emmauscspd @cathwestinnovation @catherinemcauleywestmead @sacmarayong @stagnes_rootyhill @nagleblacktown @stmarysrydalmere @rslnsw @catholicschoolsnsw_
01 Jun 2025
From CSPD Instagram
This isn't your usual decathlon! 💪🎽🏃🏃♀️👟❌🤯 Years 5, 6 and 8 students from Santa Sophia Catholic College Gables took part in the Da Vinci Decathlon at Knox Grammar School for the first time, showcasing their creativity, critical thinking and teamwork. 💡💭🧠🎓 The Da Vinci Decathlon is an academic competition designed to challenge and inspire students in areas like engineering, mathematics, code breaking, poetry, art, philosophy, and more, all inspired by the incredible mind of Leonardo da Vinci. ➕🗣️🤩🥰🙌 With over 200 teams taking part, the Year 5 team outsmarted the competition in the Legacy section to take home first place.💥🏆🥇👏 #catholicschoolsparramattadiocese #parracatholic #westernsydney #bluemountains #davincidecathalon #gables #boxhill @santasophiacc
31 May 2025
From CSPD Facebook
As you look through these photos😇📸 from the 2025 Indigenous Veterans Commemoration Service🌺, our Indigenous students and staff and members of the Jarara Cultural Centre ask you to give some thought to the sacrifice and service given by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander veterans.❤️🖤💛 It's estimated than more than 3,500 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples served in the First and Second World Wars but the exact number will never be known because ethnicity was not noted on enlistment documents.❤️🩹 These veterans found their war service did not bring an end to discrimination and many didn't get the recognition🎖🎖 they deserved. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples went on to serve in Korea, Malaya, Borneo and Vietnam in the years after the Second World War and continue to serve in all branches of the Australian Defence Force in conflicts and other operations around the world.👏👏 Lest We Forget 🌺🌺🌺 @Xavier College @Penola Catholic College Emu Plains @St Luke's Catholic College @Emmaus Catholic College CathWest Innovation College @Catherine McAuley Westmead @St Agnes CHS Rooty Hill @St Andrews College, Marayong (Official) #StMary'sPrimaryRydalmere @Nagle College, Blacktown South
31 May 2025
From CSPD Instagram
What is it called when you combine books, dress-up and fundraising? An adventure, of course! 📚🧛♂️🧞♂️💰😇🙌 Students and staff at St Columba's Catholic College Springwood recently immersed themselves in a week-long "Book An Adventure" celebration dedicated to the joy of books and the power of reading. 🤩🥳📚📖😍 There were daily treasure hunts, magical decorations (Hogwarts, Middle Earth, Wonderland, Narnia, to name a few ), a themed cake stall and picnic lunch boxes, with the week culminating in a day to dress up as their favourite book characters. 🪙🔍🦸🧙♂️🧚♂️🍰🧁🎂🥡🗺️🫶👏 And the best part? The College raised an incredible $1,646.10 for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, with more to come from a second-hand book stall later in the term. 💰🙏💛❤️🖤📚 #cspd2025 #catholicschoolsparramattadiocese #parracatholic #westernsydney #bluemountains #springwood #books #fundraising #indigenousliteracyfoundation @columbasdoves
30 May 2025
From CSPD Facebook
It's definitely not the usual type of decathlon! 💪🎽🏃🏃♀️👟❌🤯 Years 5, 6 and 8 students from Santa Sophia Catholic College Gables took part in the Da Vinci Decathlon at Knox Grammar School for the first time, showcasing their creativity 💡, critical thinking 💭 and teamwork. 🧠🎓 The Da Vinci Decathlon is an academic competition designed to challenge and inspire students in areas like engineering, mathematics ➕, code breaking, poetry🗣️, art, philosophy, and more, all inspired by the incredible mind of Leonardo da Vinci. 🤩🥰🙌 With over 200 teams taking part, the Year 5 team outsmarted the competition 💥in the Legacy section to take home first place.🏆🥇👏