Principal Message

As we progress closer to the Easter season through Lent it is timely to check in with how our progress is going with Project Compassion in support of Caritas Australia #BeMore. Across our Homegroups there is a real variability of support, some strong, some less so.

In speaking to the students this week I noted that I often hear arguments in favour of giving at Project Compassion time such as “It’s only one coffee per person” or “10 cents a day”. I’ve made these arguments myself. It does make one reflect how disappointing it is to have to make such an argument.  

In reality we should want to help, coming from a place of compassion, placing others at our centre ahead of ourselves. In reminding the students that this is how we live out our commandment from Jesus to ‘Love One Another’ we should be leaning in and proactively responding to help in such ways and that yes it isn't asking for much. 

Can you please encourage your child to think about this. Then, surely, we can have a healthy outcome to not only Project Compassion but also in our attitudes towards each other, placing others at our centre. 

#BullyingNoWay 2021

Our conversation with the students continues. Today, as we know, is the National Day of Action Against Bullying. We have been having an ongoing conversation with the students at every opportunity on this issue looking the importance of them being an ‘Upstander’. 

This involves acting on the empathy they feel towards others by acting in support of the bullied in the moment. We have been speaking with the students about the critical importance of what they do in that three second window after they witness bullying either in person or online. 

Do they lean in and support the bullied or do they stay silent? 

Do they take a screenshot of a bullying online post in Snapchat, House Party or the many other platforms they might use and bring it to the attention of a teacher at school or do they ignore it, knowing the harm it is doing? What are they a voice for - the bully or the bullied. There is no third choice.

As parents we need to have a conversation with our children ongoing about this to support our call for them to be Upstanders in our college.

Year 7 2022

Applications due by next Friday 26th March, 2021. At the moment we have more applications than places. If parents are considering enrolling a child for 2022 at Kildare Catholic College we must have all enrolment papers in by next Friday or the application won’t be considered for the first round offers regardless of when interviews take place. Please help us and yourselves by getting the paperwork in.