News

Almost 65,000 kindergarten students will start at NSW public schools this week as a new syllabus that mandates the use of phonics when teaching pupils to read is rolled out in all classrooms. Read more....

Six Year 6 students selected from across 59 primary schools in Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains recently competed in the Diocesan Voice of Youth Public Speaking Competition Grand Final on the 20th of September.

Congratulations to our winners and all who entered the 2021/22 Executive Director's Summer Reading Challenge (EDSRC), it has been an incredible competition this year with a large number of entries.

Diocese of Parramatta Bishop Vincent Long has blessed and officially opened Santa Sophia Catholic College in Sydney’s North West Growth Area. Read more...

With no end in sight for homeschooling we picked the brains of principals and school captains from across the Hills to get their top tips to making studying from home a success. Read more...

Students have been enjoying some fun science investigations for 2021 National Science Week, highlighting how Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta (CEDP) schools are using research-based learning to engage students with their education. Read more...

It was a big day for Year 1 students and teachers Miss Messina and Miss Espiritu, as Year 1 students dressed up to the theme 'Past and Present', as a fun exploration of their unit on family history. Read more...

We have our first official book for our Knowledge Centre (the library) at Box Hill. 'The Voyage' has been donated to Santa Sophia by the book's illustrator, Andrea Edmonds. Read more...

The children at Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Out of School Hours Care (COSHC), have a whole lot of new friends each afternoon when they are joined by the children from Santa Sophia Primary School, the new primary school currently sharing their school grounds. Read more...

On Friday 30 April, Year 2 students went on an excursion to Elizabeth Farm, where they learnt about how people lived in the past compared with how we live today. Read more...