Principal Report

Mother’s Day Celebrations

Thank you to all our wonderful mums, step mums, carers, nans, aunts, sisters, and significant ladies for coming to our Mother’s Day afternoon.  Thank you to the following for coming together to make our Mother’s Day Celebration an amazing afternoon:

• Carley Padman, for putting together the Mother’s Day gift which was given out on our Mother’s Day Celebration. 
• Staff who brought a plate of food to share with our special ladies in the afternoon. 
• Catherine Dunn for organising our liturgy. 
• Teachers who worked with students in creating a treasured gift for mums for Mother’s Day and organising an activity for our special afternoon.
• All staff for working together to make this special event happen.

Preservation of Religious Freedom in Australian Catholic Schools

Currently, protections exist in the commonwealth which allows faith based schools to discriminate with regard to students and staff in order to maintain the integrity of their religious mission and purpose. The Albanese government is proposing to remove the protections contained in section 38 of the SDA, effectively leaving our schools with no legal protections to ensure mission alignment and regard to what is being witnessed or taught in our schools. The proposed legislation will severely impact the Catholic School’s ability to remain Catholic. 

We as a Catholic school employ staff, and enrol students who are non catholic on the basis that we are a Catholic school and teach the tenets, beliefs and doctrines of our faith to those who seek Catholic education. Staff are not forced to work in Catholic education, and families are not forced to enrol their children in our Catholic schools. People will seek employment, or enrolment elsewhere if it does not align with their personal views. His Grace, Archbishop Julian Porteous and Catholic Education Tasmania have written to the prime minister Anthony Albanese to ask that these laws are not passed and allow Catholic Schools to enact a Religious Freedom Law and preserve the rights and freedoms to uphold beliefs and practice. See attached letter from His Grace Archbishop Julian Porteous. 

Carmen Aylott

Principal