St Paul of the Cross Dulwich Hill in Sydney, Australia | Religious school

St Paul of the Cross Dulwich Hill

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9558 5308

Address: 14 - 16 May Street, Dulwich Hill 2203 Sydney, NSW, Australia

Website: http://stpcdulwichhill.catholic.edu.au

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25.01.2022 Our AFL program starts today thanks to the Australian Government’s Sporting Schools program!

25.01.2022 Applications are invited from parents wishing to enrol their child at St Paul of the Cross for Kindergarten 2021. Applications can be downloaded from our website or you can contact the school office on 9558 5308.

25.01.2022 Learning In Action - Middles, Day 1: Mathematics Our Middles were recently involved in the Numerical Acumen Challenge 2020. The students have been completing the challenge as part of their fluency in our mathematics program. We are thrilled to congratulate Archie and Jordan on their incredible performance and dedication in this year's challenge!

24.01.2022 Learning In Action - Kindergarten, Day 3 In Kindergarten we enjoy practising our fine motor skills. One of our favourite activities is beading. As part of our guided reading rotations, the children are practising their fine motor skills and beading their sight words.

22.01.2022 They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.

22.01.2022 Happy National Science Week! Check out all of the amazing experiments as well as the design and make projects our students have completed!

21.01.2022 Learning In Action - Year 2, Day 2: English Welcome to Year 2 English, where we are focusing on reading fluency and positive engagement with a variety of spoken and written texts. We are reading superstars in Year 2!

20.01.2022 Learning in Action - Year 2, Day 4: Religious Education In Religion we have been learning about the New Commandment given to us by Jesus, Love one another as I have loved you. Today we read from the Gospel of John and shared this prayer with our school community. Dear Lord, show us how to be more like you. Please give us strength and courage to always make the right choices. May the Holy Spirit help us to love one another. Amen.

20.01.2022 Seniors are excited to take over our Facebook page this week and showcase all the learning that is happening in the classroom! Learning In Action - Seniors Day 1: Visual Arts With our resident art teacher Mr Baydoun, our Seniors have been exploring the techniques and style of the famous Australian artist Sidney Nolan. How amazing do our artworks inspired by the Kelly Gang look?

20.01.2022 The community of St Paul of the Cross Catholic Primary School wishes to acknowledge all fathers, grandfathers, uncles and significant males in our beautiful community a very Happy Father's Day!

20.01.2022 Dear Parents, Carers and Friends, We are delighted to announce that St Paul of the Cross Dulwich Hill has launched a Facebook Page! We will use this page to promote and celebrate all the wonderful things that happen at our school throughout the year. We welcome you to like, comment and share our posts with others. We ask our visitors and contributors to always: remain respectful and polite only contribute positive comments - if you have a question or concern, please conta...ct the school directly please communicate with acceptable language only (no profanities). Remember this is our school Facebook Page for our present and future community to engage with us. Let’s have fun and be kind to one another. Thank you. See more

20.01.2022 Learning In Action - Kindergarten, Day 1 The students in Kindergarten enjoy their daily sight word practise during our morning English block. Today, we grabbed our paint brushes and painted our sight words!

20.01.2022 Welcome to big school! This week we welcomed next year’s kindergarten students to our school. This is Billy and Evelyn with Miss Zagame enjoying their second day of transition at St Paul of the Cross!

19.01.2022 Today we ended a busy week of celebrations and reflected on the values Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop brought to our lives and the ways in which we live out her motto to never see a need without doing something about it. We especially celebrate Chloe in Seniors and John-Michael in Middles who received our Mary MacKillop award. They are both outstanding examples of how we can follow in the footsteps of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop and open our hearts to others.

19.01.2022 Learning In Action - Seniors Day 2: Mathematics Our senior Mathematicians love exploring all things to do with ‘Position’. With the help of Google Maps and old street directories, the seniors have been creating routes using landmarks, compass directions and positional language.

18.01.2022 Fridays are so much fun when we get to wear our pyjamas to school! Thank you to our wonderful Senior House Captains who organised a Pyjama Fun Day with sports activities for our students!

18.01.2022 Here at St Paul of the Cross, we support people who do not have access to safe, secure and adequate housing. Will you join us in lighting a candle for homelessness this Friday night? #familywintersleepout@home

18.01.2022 Learning In Action - Year 2, Day 1: History In Year 2 we are learning about the history of our school by being detectives of the past! We interviewed Mrs Porteous who has been working at the school for 21 years. Look at what we learnt: * Hannan Court was named after Tom Hannan who was the school handyman. * The original St Paul of the Cross school was across the road in the Church hall.... * St Paul of the Cross school has always been a co-ed school. * The school office and staff room were originally the convent used by the Sisters of St Joseph. See more

17.01.2022 Learning In Action - Seniors Day 3: Writing Our senior students definitely know how to convince their readers! We’ve been working hard on improving our persuasive writing using the Seven Steps To Writing Success. Check out the dynamic dialogue in our advertisements!

16.01.2022 Year 1 have been doing some amazing maths work over the past few weeks! They have been super busy learning to: - identify the faces of 3D objects - measure lengths using informal units - read analog and digital clocks

15.01.2022 That’s a wrap on Term 2! What better way to celebrate the end of a crazy term than with Crazy Hair Day! We wish all of our students, families and staff a wonderful break and can’t wait to see you back in Term 3!

13.01.2022 Today we were lucky enough to have a visit from popular children’s author Aleesah Darlison! We heard all about her books and discussed ways to improve our persuasive writing.

12.01.2022 We’ve missed our students so much, and look forward to welcoming them back when they return to full face to face learning on Monday 25 May. The safety and wellbeing of our school community is still our number one priority. We request parents drop students at the school gate and not come onto the premises in the morning and adhere to social distancing protocols during the staggered afternoon pickup.

12.01.2022 All classes spent time today in our Penola Chapel in reflective prayer to deepen the love within us so that we may live and be like Mary MacKillop.

11.01.2022 Learning In Action - Year 2, Day 3: Mathematics We are lucky enough to be using Beebots as part of our Maths lessons this week! We are learning the importance of instructions and have enjoyed programming the Beebots to move in different directions.

11.01.2022 The NAIDOC theme for 2020 is ‘Always Was, Always Will Be.’ St Paul of the Cross recognise and celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

09.01.2022 The Josephite charism was alive in our school community today as we joined together in our pastoral groups to celebrate the love and courage Mary MacKillop shared with others.

08.01.2022 Today our students participated in fun sports activities and wore brightly coloured mufti clothes to reflect the joy and kindness Mary MacKillop brought to so many people. We collected gold coins and raised $421 to be donated to Mary MacKillop Place at North Sydney. We hope you enjoy these snapshots from today!

07.01.2022 2021 Enrolments: Applications are invited from parents wishing to enrol their child at St Paul of the Cross for Kindergarten 2021. Applications can be downloaded from our website or from the school office. Please contact the school office on 9558 5308 if you would like to make an appointment for a school tour.

06.01.2022 Learning In Action - Kindergarten, Day 4 This term in Kindergarten we have been practising our independent reading skills to help build our reading stamina. As part of our morning routine, the children come into class and head straight for their favourite books and begin their independent reading. Each week we have added one minute to the timer and we are now enjoying a whole 10 minutes of independent reading! Go Kinder!

04.01.2022 Learning In Action - Seniors Day 4: Religious Education This week, Seniors have been exploring the structure and organisation of the Catholic Church in Australia as part of the ‘Universal Church’ under the leadership of the Pope. They enjoyed listening to and viewing photos from Mrs Porteous’ trip to Rome in 2012.

04.01.2022 We’d like to congratulate Sydney FC for their remarkable win in the A-League grand final on Sunday night. We have been fortunate to have their skillful coaching staff running a superb soccer clinic during the past 4 weeks! Our students have loved having you demonstrate and teach us passing, dribbling and shooting skills!

04.01.2022 Congratulations to our newly elected School Captains for 2021 - Rosie and Kodi.

04.01.2022 Learning In Action - Kindergarten, Day 2 Kindergarten have been constructing informative texts about different animals as part of their writing unit this term. We were lucky enough to have a very special visitor join our morning, Noodle the Blue-Tongue Lizard! The children observed Noodle and his features and engaged in a draw, talk, write, share lesson all about Noodle! We even saw his blue tongue!

03.01.2022 Learning In Action - Middles, Day 3: Writing Middles are loving their shared reading book for this term ‘Max and the Millions’ by Ross Montgomery. As they read through their book, they work together on improving their comprehension skills, expanding their vocabulary and linking the themes of this book with other Key Learning Areas!

03.01.2022 As a Josephite school, we take time each year to celebrate and honour Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop. This year is extra special because it marks the 10 year anniversary of Mary’s canonisation. It is through this week's celebration that we give hope for the future, keeping alive the vision and mission of Saint Mary of the Cross and the Sisters of St Joseph whose charism is reflected throughout our school community.

02.01.2022 At St Paul of the Cross we are learning how to start a conversation with one another and ask 'R U OK?'

02.01.2022 Learning In Action - Seniors Day 5: History In our History unit ‘The Australian Colonies’, we have been researching the various people and groups who have impacted and influenced Australia using a range of primary and secondary sources! It was great to learn from each other about these important men and women and their experiences during the 1800’s. Thanks for joining Seniors this week! Stay tuned for our Year 2 Learning in Action takeover next week!

01.01.2022 Learning In Action - Middles, Day 2: Visual Arts The students in Middles have been inspired by the work of Pablo Picasso. They used paper, pencils, crayon and texta materials to create these beautiful art pieces. Here we see the process and some finished works titled: Thinking Lady 2020.