Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Harkaway Hills College Upcoming Information Sessions

We are hosting several information sessions over the coming months - please see the details below.

Introduction to the PARED model of education and Harkaway Hills College

  • Who: October - Frank Monagle, founding member of PARED; past principal of Redfield College and Wollemi College, Sydney; current member of Melbourne school steering committee.
  • November - Andrew Mullins, former teacher, tutor and headmaster at Redfield and Wollemi Colleges in NSW, schools of the PARED Foundation.
  • What: An introduction to the PARED model of education and Harkaway Hills College, for new parents and families.
  • When: Saturday 10 October, 2:30pm
and again on Sunday 22 November, 2:30pm

  • Where:  October - home of Damien & Tatiana, Guys Hill 
          November - home of Trent & Isabelle, Beaconsfield
  • October: Friday 9 October.
  • November: Wednesday 18 November.
For babysitting purposes, please indicate how many children you intend to bring.


What does it mean that the school has a "Catholic ethos"?  And what is Opus Dei and how is it involved?
  • Who: Andrew Mullins, former teacher, tutor and headmaster at Redfield and Wollemi Colleges in NSW, schools of the PARED Foundation.
  • What: Harkaway Hills College, and all PARED schools, are schools that have a Catholic ethos and teach the Catholic faith, but they are not "Catholic schools".  Andrew Mullins will explain what this means.

    Further, Andrew will explain the spirituality of Opus Dei, which has inspired this model of education, and will describe the involvement of Opus Dei in the chaplaincy of the school.
  • When:  Tuesday 27 October, 7:30pm
  • Where:  Home of Trent & Isabelle, Beaconsfield

Orientation day for 2016 families
  • What: Orientation day for both parents and students.

    Frank Monagle will address parents about practical details and arrangements whilst Roisin Watson meets her 2016 class of students.
  • When: Sunday 13 December, 2:00pm
  • Where: Please introduce children to Miss Watson at the home of Trent & Isabelle, Beaconsfield.

    Then parents to head across the road to home of Elizabeth & Daniel.
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