Professional Culture and Growth
Staff End of Year Professional Learning
As 2023 draws to a close, we are busy preparing our resources and curriculum for 2024. On the 13th and 14th of December, staff will be preparing for 2024 in their Learning Teams. Part of this is ensuring all curriculum and assessments are reviewed and updated as well as incorporating new activities and topics into the curriculum to continue our work in providing engaging learning activities for our students.
New Staff 2024
We are very blessed to be welcoming some exceptional staff to our Marist-Sion College community for 2024. We welcome the following new staff:
| First Name | Surname | Role at MSCW in 2024 |
| Chantelle | Baxter | Subject Teacher |
| Nicole (Nikki) | Davies | Subject Teacher |
| Amanda | Lee | Subject Teacher |
| Bradley | Cavalot | Subject Teacher |
| Sharryn | Marshall | Subject Teacher |
| Darren | Besanko | Head of House |
| Julia | Curl | Subject Teacher |
| Fiona | Dyball | Subject Teacher |
| Natasha | Gay-Wilson | Head of House |
| Ethan | Harkins | Subject Teacher |
| Amy | Hirst | Subject Teacher |
| Michał | Moser | Subject Teacher |
| Thea | Notman | Subject Teacher |
| Ruan | van Aswegen | Subject Teacher |
| Claudia | Webb | Subject Teacher |
| Matthew | Wirth | Subject Teacher |
| Tegan | Svetina | Subject Teacher |
| Menaka | Thirunadarajah | Subject Teacher |
| Pandora | Wang | Subject Teacher |
| Ben | Gaze | Applied Learning Leader |
| Jeanette | Farrington | Subject Teacher |
| Ross | Mirza | Subject Teacher |
I would like to give a special welcome to our 3 Graduate Teachers, Michal Moser, Thea Notman and Pandora Wang. They are already with us in Head Start and have had a fantastic beginning to their teaching career.
We are still looking for two more teachers and a POL for 2024. I am confident we will fill these positions prior to the commencement of the 2024 year.
Professional Culture and Growth
Over the course of 2023, our staff have been working on building their professional capacity through a series of colleague led workshops each fortnight on a Thursday afternoon. The feedback has been very positive with the short, specifically focused and informal nature of these workshops and the calibre of presentations has exceeded my expectations when I first submitted this concept to our staff.
Thank you to all of our staff who have led workshops this year and we look forward to continuing this collegial practice in 2024.
Georgie Erpisimidis
Deputy Principal – Professional Culture and Growth