Greg Whitby

Hundreds of members of the Catholic Schools Parramatta Diocese community came together to celebrate the life and legacy of former Executive Director Greg Whitby....

The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated by Bishop Vincent Long OFM Conv, Bishop of Parramatta, at St Patrick’s Cathedral Parramatta on Monday, 8 September 2025 at 10.00am. ...

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 If you’re a working parent, then you probably dread the note from school advising of a pupil free day, especially when those days fall before or just after school holidays. In today’s world, the demands on families are...

Weekly Column from the Executive Director of Schools, Diocese of Parramatta NSW Minister for Education Rob Stokes recently set the cat amongst the pigeons when he announced that there would be no new fully selective schools built in NSW. He argued passionately that every child needs to be viewed...

Weekly Column from the Executive Director of Schools, Diocese of Parramatta Last month, NSW Education Minister Rob Stokes suggested schools needed to avoid the over-promotion of STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) above other areas, cautioning against following education ‘fads’. The comments were controversial because they were at...

Weekly Column from the Executive Director of Schools, Diocese of Parramatta These days it is rare to find a teenager who doesn’t have at least one social media account. It is usually more than one. Clearly, social media is no fad. We are only at the beginning of what...

Weekly Column from the Executive Director of Schools, Diocese of Parramatta In 1998, Tom Herner, an academic working in the area of supporting students with challenging behaviours, wrote this: “If a child doesn’t know how to read, we teach; if a child doesn’t know how to multiply, we teach;...

Weekly Column from the Executive Director of Schools, Diocese of Parramatta Schools strive to deliver the best outcomes for students. However, schools sometimes miss a golden opportunity to do even more for their students when they fail to engage parents as partners in education. We know that parent engagement...