St Agnes’ Catholic Primary School Matraville

Why choose us?

St Agnes’ Catholic Primary School Matraville is an inclusive and welcoming community. Our understanding of every child’s needs means that our passionate and professional teachers know their learning goals and are dedicated to meeting them.

Every child’s growth and wellbeing is fundamental to our approach. We encourage and challenge children in their learning and celebrate their achievements on this journey. Whether it be through students’ creative, sporting or academic endeavours, they are supported by strong Catholic values and our commitment to seeing every child thrive and achieve their full potential.

Principal’s Message

Welcome to St Agnes’ Catholic Primary School Matraville. We are an inclusive faith and learning community committed to educating children, acknowledging their uniqueness and challenging them to reach their full potential.

As principal, I am passionate about providing a values-informed and holistic education for every student, enabling them to grow across all domains: academic, social, emotional, spiritual and physical.

We believe children learn best when the curriculum is challenging, stimulating and relevant, and that teaching practices support the diverse learning needs of our students. The teaching of foundational literacy and numeracy skills is a key focus. We embed 21st century skills across the curriculum, including the ability to think in creative, critical and problem-solving ways, to communicate confidently, and to work collaboratively with others.

We value the partnership of faith and education between parish, school and home. We believe that this partnership will help our children to actively engage with their faith, learning and community.

I invite you to explore these and other features which make our school a special place of learning further on our website.

For those new to our community, I look forward to meeting you and your child soon.

If you are seeking enrolment, you are invited to attend our open day in March of each year to tour our school and collect an enrolment package. Get in touch with us if you’d like to enrol your child outside of the annual March-May enrolment period.

Mrs Rose Andre
Principal

Our History and Charism

History

Our school began as the ‘Bunnerong School of Our Lady of the Rosary’ in 1907. The Sisters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (OLSH) from Botany conducted the school. It commenced its first school term with 52 students in one classroom, catering for children of itinerant workers who lived in the surrounding sandhills and who were too poor to educate their children. New school buildings were added in the 1950s, also serving as the parish church.

Parish Priest Father James Munday expanded St Agnes’ School with additional land, and buildings for the school on the current site, as well as a new parish church, was officially opened and blessed in January 1966 as St Agnes’ Church. In 1981, the OLSH Sisters withdrew and the first lay principal was appointed. Further improvements to the school have included a new hall, multi-purpose library and playground areas in the last 10 years.

Charism

Today, St Agnes’ is a school that embodies the OLSH charism of its founders by committing to our school’s values of love, care, respect and justice in both our words and actions. These values continue to underpin our vision for learning.

Our Mission and Values

Mission
In valued partnership with our parents and the parish community we:

nurture our students to develop and grow so that they value and respect the importance of their faith life and community
provide a Catholic education founded on the Gospel values, with Jesus as our model, enriched by the charism of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
provide quality teaching and learning to cater for the individual needs of all students
provide quality pastoral care catering for the wellbeing of all community members.
promote an appreciation and sense of responsibility to care for our environment.

Our Values

With Jesus as our model, we are committed to love, care, respect and justice for each member of our school community:

Love – We welcome and nurture a diverse community that proclaims, models and celebrates the teachings of Jesus.
Care – We follow the example of Jesus by giving ourselves to others and the world.
Respect – We act with integrity, valuing long and life giving relationships by respecting the rights of others.
Justice – We foster a spirit of service that encourages children to share their gifts in order to make a difference in the world.

Our Parish

We work closely with St Agnes’ Catholic Parish Matraville to bring celebrations of our Catholic faith to the school community.

Parish Priest
Fr John M. Knight KCHS

Mass Times
Saturday 5.30pm
Sunday 10.00am

Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 7am

Thursday 9am

Contact Details
A: 509 Bunnerong Road Matraville NSW 2036
P: (02) 9311 1909
E: stagnesmatra@bigpond.com
W: www.stagnesmatraville.org.au

Annual School Report

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Proudly Part of the Community of Sydney Catholic Schools

Our school is part of a system of over 150 low-fee Catholic schools in the Sydney Archdiocese.

Sydney Catholic Schools are thriving Catholic communities that ignite a love of Christ through excellent teaching and learning to empower students to reach their full potential.

Love. Care.
Respect. Justice.

Committed to seeing every child thrive.

Why choose us?