I extend a warm welcome back to school to students, staff and families. The Winter Term is generally filled with activities and events including the Catholic Schools’ Performing Arts Festival, …

Address to the Community of Holy Cross College
Autumn Term Assembly
Friday 3 July 2020

Who am I

• I live on a farm
• I play hide and seek
• I feed

On the evening of Wednesday 17 June 2020, Holy Cross College hosted a dinner for the School Boards of St Helena’s Catholic Primary School and Holy Cross College. The evening …

Congratulations to Clarissa See from St Helena’s Catholic Primary School who is the recipient of the 2021 Br Pat Kelly cfc Middle School Academic Scholarship. Clarissa’s strength is in writing …

To minimise the spread of the Coronavirus one of the strategies was to house homeless people in city hotels. Suddenly, the streets seemed almost empty of people who, only days …

A question that I have never been asked, but perhaps should be asked, is “what do teachers do on a pupil free day” or, as we say at Holy Cross …

Throughout all cultures of  the world, people have unique physical ways of greeting people. The traditional Maori greeting, the hongi is performed by two people pressing their noses together; some …

If you have driven along Westgrove Drive in recent weeks you would have noticed the new sports centre rise like a phoenix from what was a field covered in wood …

Role models are important for young people to learn from and aspire to be like. We often look to the star power of sports men and women, actors or singers …

During the move to alternate modes of learning to assist in minimising the spread of the Coronavirus, and especially learning from home, I have heard some amazing and heart-warming stories …

Many of us will remember Bobby McFerrin’s song – Don’t Worry, Be Happy. Just listening to the song would make us smile and we would become even happier. The song …

Today we welcomed back more than 45% of students after a short break of learning at home. It was wonderful to see so many smiling faces keen to be back …