From the CEO | Concluding 2020
As 2020 draws to a close, I look back with a profound sense of pride. Every adaptation, every implementation, every spontaneous action required to ensure the safety of our students and staff, every step…
Conversations During Covid
Keeping the ‘C’ in Covid, our Directors of Mission build on their last newsletter article, which focused on connection, with a reflection through the prism of conversation..
LSAC Student Leadership Conference 2020
On Friday, November 27th, the School Captains of our Australian Loreto schools gathered for their annual student leadership conference, online, as 2020 would have it…
Reflections on 2020
As a newly appointed director and Chair of Loreto Ministries (LM), 2020 commenced with a sense of anticipation and excitement around my new role. I’d already had exposure to Loreto through personal experience…
Positive Change
November 2020 was an unforgettable month for Loreto Vietnam. During weeks of travel across An Giang province in Southern Vietnam, we were overwhelmed with happiness…
Engaging With The Bigger Picture
A Mary Ward education has always been a global reality. In a recent virtual response to Pope Francis’ Global Compact on Education, Sr Noelle Corscadden ibvm, Global Institute Leader, affirmed…
VCAL: Access to Excellence – Life Ready.
At the beginning of 2020 our first project was to refresh VCAL. We wanted to put our Loreto stamp on this unique program. What our students developed encapsulated the essence of a Loreto…
Music as Medicine
“By the end of my time at Loreto, I walked out into the world thinking I could genuinely do anything I wanted to.” Long before Sophie Payten became Gordi, the much-loved ARIA-nominated musician…
Clean Hands, Happy Hearts
“A toilet is not just a toilet. It is a lifesaver, dignity-protector and opportunity-maker. Whoever you are, wherever you are, sanitation is your human right”…
The L Plates of Leadership
Julia Gillard, Australia’s first and only (so far) female Prime Minister, has recently co-authored a book with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, called Women and Leadership…