Catholic Education

Dozens of Special Religious Education (SRE) Catechists, together with students and educators from around 17 Catholic Schools celebrated this year’s annual Confraternity of Christian Doctrine Mass, led by Bishop of Parramatta, Bishop Vincent Long OFM Conv together with Fr Robert Riedling, Episcopal Vicar for Education and Dean of the...

Greg Whitby AM KSG will retire as Executive Director at the end of the 2022 school year. Having given over more than forty years of service to education, Greg has been a champion of innovation and change in learning and teaching. ...

This week we marked National Reconciliation Week in Australia. In the Diocese of Parramatta Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta attended a powerful event highlighting Reconciliation in action...

Draft New Curriculum for Religious Education to be shared....

We, in the Diocese of Parramatta and Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta, take the trust you have placed in us to educate your children extremely seriously. We would never teach anything contrary to Catholic Scripture and Tradition....

Please suspend your judgment - Weekly Column from the Executive Director of Schools, Diocese of Parramatta...

Weekly Column from the Executive Director of Schools, Diocese of Parramatta Those of us born before the 1990s have had the experience, and some might say benefit, of living in two worlds. The pre-digital world was the word of VHS tapes, pay phones and typewriters. In the digital world...

Weekly Column from the Executive Director of Schools, Diocese of Parramatta Recently, Senator Pauline Hanson suggested that children with disabilities, including children with autism, should be removed from mainstream classrooms because they are holding their classmates back. Some people chose to defend the comments as an attempt at highlighting...

Weekly Column from the Executive Director of Schools, Diocese of Parramatta   One of the first questions I ask when I have the opportunity to sit and speak with students is ‘What do you like most about school?’ Can you guess their response? Overwhelmingly the majority of them say...