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2025 CEDoW Employee Engagement Survey – Now Open

For: Principals and CEO Leadership Team
Due: Now, from Monday 5 May 2025
Contact: Workplace Safety and Wellbeing Team at whs@dow.catholic.edu.au
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The survey has been developed in collaboration with Xref Engage, is research and evidence-based, designed to take around 20 minutes to complete. 

It will remain open for three weeks, closing on Friday 23 May 2025.

Your role as a leader is instrumental in encouraging participation across your school or service area. The survey offers staff a valuable opportunity to share honest and thoughtful feedback about their workplace experience.  The feedback received via the survey will be used to enable continuous improvement of staff engagement and wellbeing, organisational culture, and performance over time. 

Action: We ask for your support in promoting the survey and encouraging your staff to complete the survey. To help you communicate the details of the survey, we have developed some resources:

• 2025 Engagement Survey: Leaders Talking Points
• 2025 Engagement Survey: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s)
• 2025 Engagement Survey: Poster 1
• 2025 Engagement Survey: Poster 2

Your support makes a difference. By actively promoting the survey and encouraging participation, you help ensure that every voice is heard and that the insights we gather genuinely reflect the experiences of our staff.

*Eligible staff: *Permanent, temporary, and eligible casual (casuals who have worked 60 days since November 2023).

If you have any questions regarding the Engagement Survey, please contact Rochelle Borg or Susan Phillipson, Workplace Safety and Wellbeing Team, at whs@dow.catholic.edu.au.

For CEDoW’s full range of workplace, safety, and wellbeing resources, please visit the Workplace Safety and Wellbeing Hub on Gateway.

Secondary Principals’ Term 2 Zoom Catch-ups with Jo Kenny – Assistant Director, Catholic Life, Education and Mission

For: Secondary principals
Due: Wednesday 14 May 2025
Contact: Jo Kenny at kennyj02@dow.catholic.edu.au
First notice

Action: Please read the correspondence from Jo Kenny, Assistant Director, Catholic Life, Education and Mission, in which secondary principals are asked to nominate a suitable time for a one-hour Zoom meeting during Term 2.

Confirm your school’s ClickUp users

For: Principals/SSSOs
Due: Tuesday 20 May 2025 (two weeks’ time)
Contact: Assistant Director - Strategy and Communications at matthew.baxter@dow.catholic.edu.au 
First notice

ClickUp member licences are intended for school leaders who actively contribute to the ongoing oversight of your SSIP and AIP. This is typically your core leadership team.

Action: Please review your school’s ClickUp members and confirm who needs a licence. When complete, please notify matthew.baxter@dow.catholic.edu.au.

Why? We have a limited number of licences so making sure that only staff actively using ClickUp are registered will ensure we make the most of our licences and keep unnecessary costs down.

Reminder: Shape the CEO’s 2026 priorities

For: Principals/APs/RECs/CEO leaders
Due: Monday 12 May 2025
Contact: Assistant Director - Strategy and Communications at matthew.baxter@dow.catholic.edu.au 
First notice

Principals, APs, RECs, and CEO leaders received an email on Monday 28 April, inviting you to contribute to a short survey that will directly inform the CEO’s 2026 priorities.

Action: Take 5 minutes to complete the survey (using the link in the email from Matt Baxter on 28 April).

Why? Without your input, the CEDoW Leadership Team risks missing key insights during the annual planning process. This is a great opportunity to get your ideas and feedback on the table.

Australian Catholic Youth Festival Update

For: Secondary Principals & RECs/Leaders of Mission
Due: End of May
Contact: Matt Turner at turnerm12@dow.catholic.edu.au, or Claire Cooney at cooneyc02@dow.catholic.edu.au 
First notice

The Catholic Life, Education & Mission team continues to work with Harvest Journeys to determine arrangements for a CEDoW student delegation to the ACYF in Melbourne (30 November – 2 December 2025).

Action: Please read the detailed update here.

After reading the update, it would be appreciated if, by the end of May, each school could advise Claire Cooney of the staff member who will be accompanying the student group to the ACYF. Claire will then share a calendar invitation for the Zoom briefing session on 3 June, along with all other events leading up to ACYF. This nominated staff member will be considered the primary point of contact for all ACYF-related arrangements. RECs and Leaders of Mission will continue to be copied into all communications.

Parable of the Lost Sheep: A book reading by Bishop Brian Mascord

For: System leaders and SSSOs
Due: Tuesday 27 May 2025
Contact: Mark Rix - Manager, Improvement, Learning and Wellbeing at rixm02@dow.catholic.edu.au
First notice

The Council of Catholic Schools Parents (CCSP) warmly invites all families to join Bishop Brian Mascord in a very special online reading of the classic Bible story ‘The Parable of the Lost Sheep’.

This unique online event, organised as part of the Jubilee Year of Hope, will take place on Tuesday 27 May from 7.00 pm to 7.30 pm. A flyer promoting the event is linked here.

Action: Schools are asked to promote the event with parents and carers via your usual channels.

The first 100 registrations for the reading will be posted a free copy of the book to read along with Bishop Brian!

A link to Bishop Brian’s statement on the passing of the Holy Father, Pope Francis, is also available here.