College’s Houses

As a result of discussion and feedback, the College’s Catholic Identity Committee recommended to the College’s Leadership Team that a process of discussion, consultation and discernment be adopted to rename the College’s Houses.  

The Leadership Team endorsed this recommendation.  Consequently, throughout the remainder of 2024 and throughout the better part of the 2025 academic year, the Catholic Identity Committee along with a soon to be instituted Working Party will begin the process of selecting new names for the College’s Houses.  House colours will remain but a focus on a person, with a rich and Catholic narrative, will be selected to replace the current constellations.  The primary reason for this process is to enhance the Catholic Identity of St John’s Regional College.  It is important to note that the process we are about to undertake is but one of several, however, it is also the most significant.  

The underlying thinking for the adoption of the recommendation follows:

1. As is reasonable, a human face lends itself to a human relationship – one from whom values may be modelled.
2. One’s personal faith story and faith development needs to be connected to a person of faith and in doing so immerse ourselves and our students in the Catholic story.
3. The aims and objectives of a Catholic School ensures opportunities for evangelisation – knowing the narrative of those from our rich faith Tradition is one of the means to this end.
4. This is one of the opportunities we have to humanise our Christianity for and with our students.
5. This also honours our great Tradition of the Saints and the role they play in the lives of the people who venerate them.  We not only see their holiness but their humanity.

As the timeline for this process reaches certain key decisions we will update all families, students and staff to ensure the entire community is aware of the progress made.