Clonard Embeds a Culture of Child Safeguarding

New Victorian Child Safe Standards came into effect on 1 July 2022 in all Victorian schools.  An important inclusion in the 11 standards is Standard 3: Child and student empowerment – Children and young people are empowered about their rights, participate in decisions affecting them […]

Respect, Consent & Media with Richie Hardcore

St Joseph’s College, Iona College and Thomas Carr College present Respect, Consent & Media with speaker Richie Hardcore. Through sharing his personal journey, Richie helps young people foster respectful relationships with themselves and others. Richie discusses the challenges young people face in a modern world […]

Clonard Community Cook-Up

Our Year 12 Living Justly leaders, Emma and Mieka, oversaw another Community Cook-up last week at Clonard. On Wednesday after school, 24 student volunteers, doing their best ‘Master Chef’ impersonations, created over 50 meals for the Clonard community. These meals, comprising of beef and vegetable […]

Educating for Social Justice Seminar

On the 23 and 24 March, the Year 10 and Year 11 Living Justly Leaders attended the Educating for Social Justice Seminar at the Edmund Rice Centre in Lower Plenty, Melbourne. We were one of six schools across Australia to attend the overnight seminar run […]

2023 Reunion Wrap-Up

Thank you to all the Past Collegians who attended the 2023 Clonard Reunion on March 25 2023. It was lovely to see you all again, hear stories of your time at Clonard, show you around the college grounds and share our plans for the future. […]

Year 7 Camp Wrap-Up

What a wonderful three days we had recently at the Year 7 Lake Dewar Lodge Encounter. Apart from experiencing new and exciting activities for the first time, students came home knowing many more Year 7’s than before their time away. These new connections, and blossoming […]

Year 8 Humanities – Volcano Work

In Humanities this Term for Year 8, we are learning about landforms and landscapes. In this topic, we were given the opportunity to work with our friends to create a volcano outside of school. While making this volcano we learnt how volcanos could erupt in […]

VCE Environmental Science Excursion

The VCE Environmental Science students were busy doing field work out at Mt Rothwell late into the night. They trapped, tracked and collected valuable data about the critically endangered Eastern Barred Bandicoots.

Geelong RE Network Leader’s Meeting

On 16 March, Clonard hosted the first Geelong Religious Education Leader’s network meeting for 2023 run by Mark Shafton from Melbourne Archdiocese of Catholic Schools. Leaders from Clonard, St Joseph’s, Iona, St Ignatius and Sacred Heart Colleges gathered in the Nagle room to explore the […]

Seasons for Growth : Young People’s Program

Invitation to attend Seasons for Growth Children and Young People’s Program beginning in Term 2. Seasons for Growth® Program : Learning to live with change and loss. Change and loss are issues that affect all of us at some stage in our lives. At Clonard […]