A Principal's Perspective

  1. Comforting a family in crisis

    I was doing duty after school early last year when a father came up to me, shaking and upset. He told me his wife had just passed away suddenly and […]

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  2. Your role at your child’s school

    As a School Principal, and a father of four school aged children, I often find it difficult to be involved in my children’s schools. I can’t help in the school […]

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  3. Lunch treats at the canteen

    There is something special about parents sending their children to a Catholic School: a choice has been made.  As a family, they have actually chosen their school for their child.  […]

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  4. Getting lost in the busyness of life

    Meet David Austin, 43, the principal of St Francis of Assisi Primary School in Calwell, who has joined “My Family, My Faith” to write our ‘Principal’s Perspective’ Column.  Primary school […]

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