We have more than 200 young people of the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle among the 20,000 Catholic youths from across Australia at the Australian Catholic Youth Festival which started on 7 December.
Year 10 student, Nicola Owen of St Pius X High School, Adamstown, has accomplished an achievement that most of us would envy to have achieved at the same age.
St Joseph’s Primary School, Taree, students were jubilant at their decisive sweep of victories at the NSW Catholic Primary Schools Basketball Championships in Goulburn recently.
On Monday 6 November, St Paul’s Catholic College, Booragul, Year 11 student Tully Maurer travelled to Sydney to take part in the National Schools Constitutional Convention.
On Wednesday 15 November, the diocese held its public speaking final at the Catholic Schools Office which saw 46 students from Kindergarten to Year 6 represent their region.