Professional Learning
Who Am I? Scriptural Foundations for Our Search for Meaning and Purpose
Date: 19 September 2025
Venue: The Emmaus Centre, 4 Hyde Parade, Campbelltown
Are you a Secondary RE teacher, Pastoral Care, or Wellbeing leader seeking to deepen your understanding of meaning and purpose within a scriptural framework?
This professional learning day, Who Am I? Scriptural Foundations for Our Search for Meaning and Purpose is designed specifically for you.
We'll explore how foundational scriptures can empower you to:
- Enrich your Religious Education curriculum: Discover new ways to connect biblical narratives with students' personal journeys of self-discovery.
- Enhance pastoral care and wellbeing initiatives: Equip yourself with scripturally-grounded insights to guide students through life's big questions.
- Foster a deeper sense of identity and belonging in your students: Learn how to help students explore their unique purpose through the lens of faith.
Join us for a day of insightful discussion, practical strategies, and renewed inspiration as we collectively explore the profound question, "Who am I?" and its scriptural answers.
Click here to register.
Expression of Interest: Reconnect SPOT
Improvement, Learning and Wellbeing (ILW) Learning K–12 is pleased to share details about an upcoming professional learning opportunity for Kindergarten teachers who completed the KinderSPOT training in 2023–2024 and are currently teaching Kindergarten.
Reconnect SPOT is a one-day, optional professional learning session designed to deepen teachers’ understanding of key executive functioning and self-regulation skills—such as working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility. These foundational skills are critical for the early development of both cognitive and social capacities in young children, as supported by current research.
This session will be co-facilitated by an occupational therapist and a speech pathologist. Drawing on evidence-based research, they will support teachers to recognise common student behaviours that reflect executive functioning development within the Kindergarten classroom. Educators will also be provided with practical strategies and classroom-ready resources to support and enhance student growth in these essential areas.
If you are interested in attending, please first seek approval from your principal, then complete the Google Form below to register your expression of interest: Expression of Interest Form. Please submit your response by 8 August 2025.
If there is sufficient interest, the course will proceed, and the ILW – Learning team will coordinate registrations for participants through LMS.
Date: Thursday 28 August 2025, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Venue: Emmaus Centre, Building B, Level 3, Hyde Parade, Campbelltown
Funding Code: F02
For further information, contact Joanne Treffone at treffonej01@dow.catholic.edu.au.
Blended Online Learning – Semester 2
How can Blended Online Learning be used as a response to NCCD Data?
If you are interested in a BESPOKE course in Term 3 or 4 (delivered on-site at a time that works for you), please email wssadmin@dow.catholic.edu.au. You may also like to consider partnering with neighbouring schools that have similar interests or needs.
All courses can be offered as BESPOKE courses with a minimum participant cohort of eight.
Upcoming courses in Term 3 – Flyer link here.
Enrolment in only one course at a time.
See flyer for registration links.