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Beginning teachers, new school principals and leaders gathered for a moving celebration at St Patrick’s Cathedral Parramatta as Bishop Vincent Long and Parish Priests blessed and welcomed Catholic Schools Parramatta Diocese staff to their new roles.

With more than 20 years of experience leading some of Australia’s largest not-for-profit organisations, Executive Director Jack de Groot is excited to begin a new journey with Catholic Schools Parramatta Diocese (CPSD)

Greg Whitby AM KSG will retire as Executive Director of Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta at the end of the 2022 school year. Over more than 40 years service to education, Greg has been a champion of innovation and change in learning and teaching.

With the HSC Exams starting this week, our whole community should be celebrating Year 12 students' resilience and dedication to their studies. These impressive young people faced COVID-19 challenges during both their senior years at high school, not just during the recent Delta outbreak. Read more...

With remote learning returning for Sydney schools for the first week of Term 3 due to COVID-19, a Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta school leader has shared his reflections on how the changes to learning during last year’s extended lockdown will serve us well this time around. Read more...

Trial exams written by the CSSA - once known as the Catholic Secondary Schools Association - which are purchased and run by more than 500 Catholic, independent and public schools were due to begin on July 26 but have been delayed until August 9, system leaders were told late on Thursday. Read more...

As night gathered over Parramatta Park on a cool May night, Xavier College Llandilo School Captains Paige Manning and Huntley Jones stood together to greet guests at a civic reception to celebrate 200 Years of Catholic education in Australia. Read more...

In his first video for ACER Teacher magazine this year, Greg Whitby interviews inspiring educator Renee Blyth. Renee teaches HSIE teacher at Xavier College Llandilo. Check out this great conversation about how staff at the College have maintained a continuous culture of transformation in learning here. Watch the video...

This year 661 students from Catholic schools across Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains stepped up to take the Executive Director’s Summer Reading Challenge! In total, 4185 books were read as part of the competition: over 1000 more books than last year! Today the winners were announced. Read more...

In the final days of the summer holidays, more than 500 leaders from Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta (CEDP) schools gathered virtually to prepare for the 2021 school year. Read more...