Meet Our Staff

Kate Flynn

Role at Sacred Heart 

Grade 2 Teacher 

How many years have you been in education?

10 years- 3 years in Ireland and 7 in Australia

What’s your favourite subject to teach?

I love teaching English 

What’s your favourite food?

It has to be a roast dinner!

What’s your favourite book?

Anything by Colleen Hoover

What’s your favourite movie?

Bridesmaids or Step Brothers- I love funny movies!  

Who’s your favourite band/singer?

At the moment, Luke Combs

Do you support a sports team?

Ireland and Essendon in the AFL 

What do you enjoy doing outside of school?

I enjoy running, and I hope to complete the Melbourne Half Marathon later this year!

If you could go anywhere in the world on holiday, where would it be?

Back to Ireland to see my family- and maybe stop off in Italy on the way back for some sun!

Tell us a joke!

What do you call a big Irish spider? Paddy long legs!

Jo Collins

Role at Sacred Heart 

Year 4 Classroom teacher

How many years have you been in education?

Teaching since 1987 mainly back home in Seymour and at Sacred Heart fulltime since 2010 but started emergency teaching in 2004 and have loved the place ever since.

What’s your favourite subject to teach?

I love the sciences as they lead to investigations and discoveries; making sense of the world in many ways.

What’s your favourite food?

See-Food (see food and eat it)

What’s your favourite book?

That’s like picking a favourite child, but I love novels that are based on Australia’s history.

What’s your favourite movie?

Don’t have one, but love anything I can sing along with from ‘Sound of Music’ to ‘Mamma Mia’

Who’s your favourite band/singer?

Daryl Brathwaite

Do you support a sports team?

AFL- Hawthorn

NRL - Melbourne Storm

What do you enjoy doing outside of school?

I love cooking, crafting, (teeny bit of gardening) reading books and going on adventures with my family

If you could go anywhere in the world on holiday, where would it be?

Anywhere, as long as I don’t have to cook, clean or organise.

I want to explore northern Australia and the top of the west coast.

Overseas doesn’t really interest me although I know others can not fathom that.