College Dean | Mr Chris Ryan

Staff News

This week we welcomed Mr Tony Nicita who will be with us for some time as Mrs Karyn Negus is on leave. Mr Nicita is a regular member of our relief and contract staff and we thank him for joining us and look forward to his contribution. We wish Mrs Negus well for this time. 

As explained previously, Dr Carroll will take some leave during a part of Term 4 to have a knee reconstruction. During this time, I will act as College Principal and we congratulate Mr Damien Fall who will act as College Dean and Mr Damien Cuddihy who will act as Dean of Students. We are presently facilitating a selection process for Acting Dean of Waterford.

EREA Deputy Principals' Conference

I have spent this week as a participant at the annual Edmund Rice Educational Australia Deputy Principals' Conference. This is always a professionally rewarding time to spend with peers and colleagues for reflection, consultation and learning. We chose as our theme to use the motto of the Christian Brothers, ‘Facere et Docere’ – ‘To Do and To Teach’. This is a most apt theme for 2018 as we celebrate and acknowledge 150 years since Br Patrick Ambrose Treacy and his fellow Brothers arrived in Australia, but also 150 years of faith and educational leadership of the Christian Brothers throughout our country and New Zealand. It has been an extraordinary contribution to education. For our conference, we were inspired by the informed pragmatism of the Brothers and chose to focus on the core business of doing and teaching. Our keynote speakers, workshops and rituals all came to focus on contemporary practice in leading and supporting quality teaching and learning. For our conference dinner, we had the pleasure of welcoming as our guest keynote speaker, Mr Li Cunxin, the Director of the Queensland Ballet and famously known as ‘Mao’s last dancer’. This was an inspirational address that explored the themes of an aspiration to excellence, resilience, diligence, relationships and hope. These ideas meld nicely with that of Ambrose Treacy’s original mission in 1868 and were well received by all present from throughout the extended EREA community, including the Terrace College Leadership Team who joined us for this special occasion at the Gallery of Modern Art.