The new year will bring changes for Oxley College.
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Kate Halcrow will be the new head of Oxley College Junior School from January 2020.
The college selected Kate from a field of local, interstate and overseas candidates. In the selection process, she stood out for her outstanding teaching experience, engaging leadership style, excellent interpersonal skills, and her vision for education. She is committed to building strong relationships and developing colleagues and students through positive and supportive leadership.
Kate joins Oxley from Trinity Grammar School. Her education career has spanned more than 20 years where she has held leadership positions at Penrith Anglican College, Canberra Grammar School and worked for the Catholic Education Office in Canberra. As a teacher, Kate's students benefit from her passion, warmth and teaching expertise in drawing out the individual strengths of each student.
"I am delighted to be joining the Oxley College community in 2020. In particular, I am looking forward to getting to know each of the students from kindergarten to year six, to understand their strengths and interests. I am also looking forward to forming positive relationships with all college families. After having had the opportunity to tour the school last week, I have a sense of Oxley's Junior School being a very dynamic, happy and energetic place of learning," Ms Halcrow said.
Kate will take over from Justine Lind who has left to join the Wenona School in Sydney.
The chairman of Oxley College, Frank Conroy AM, has announced that Dr Stephen Barnett has been elected by the board of governors as the new chairman of Oxley College.
Mr Conroy will retire from the board on May 11 next year after serving twelve years as a governor and chairman.
Dr Barnett, a former student of Oxley College during its formative years, has been a governor since 2012. He was educated at The University of Newcastle where he completed his medical degree, then two years of further training at Concord Hospital, he undertook post graduate studies in the United Kingdom where he gained a Diploma of Child Health at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, followed by two years training as a General Practitioner. He joined the Bowral Street Medical Practice in 2002 where he is a director. Dr Barnett is a parent with three children attending Oxley College.
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