Meet our New Principals for 2023

Jodi Jefferson

Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Catholic Primary School (OLPS), West Pymble

Jodi commenced as Principal at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Catholic Primary School, West Pymble at the start of Term 1, 2023.

Jodi brings to Catholic Schools Broken Bay (CSBB) extensive and diverse leadership experience with Catholic Education, Diocese of Parramatta, most recently as Assistant Principal at St Madeleine’s Catholic Primary School, Kenthurst. She has also held a variety of other roles including instructional leadership of numeracy and literacy and worked with a system led specialist unit for diverse learners across multiple schools in the Parramatta Diocese.

Jodi is deeply committed to her faith, with building connections with Parish and with engaging students to know and love Christ. She has a highly collaborative leadership style and brings to OLPS a strong understanding of curriculum, how to lead, coach and mentor others to maximise learning growth for students.

Jodi hopes for her new role "To create a positive culture, where people value and support each other. I would like to develop the capacity of my team and bring out the best in people. I would like to establish a community that is built on a foundation of faith and bound by commitment to a common purpose – to meet the needs of every student.”

Charlene Reid

St Brendan’s Catholic Primary School, Lake Munmorah

Charlene Reid has been appointed to the permanent role of Principal at St Brendan’s Catholic Primary School, Lake Munmorah. Charlene was formerly the Principal of St Joseph’s Primary School, Kilaben Bay. She also previously held the position of Principal of Holy Spirit Infants School, Abermain. She has demonstrated exceptional leadership as a Principal and brings with her a real passion for learning and making a genuine difference in the lives and education of students through continuous improvement and learning initiatives. Charlene is a deeply driven, innovative and faith-filled school leader with a remarkable ability to build strong relationships with staff, families and Parish.

Charlene hopes to bring great collaboration to her role, “My number one priority is the student, therefore we as a staff community and family/parish community need to be on the same page and have the student at the centre of our focus.”

Sonia Tannous

Holy Cross Catholic Primary School, Kincumber

Sonia is an innovative leader with experience in School leadership roles within Sydney Catholic Schools. Sonia has recently worked as School Principal for Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Villawood. Some of her other positions have included Acting Principal for Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Primary, Sefton and Assistant Principal at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Primary, Sefton. Sonia is deeply committed to our Towards 2025 vision of authentic, professional Catholic education and will bring a new strategic leadership style that focuses on creating a school-wide professional learning culture to continue improving student outcomes that are authentic and effective.

Pauline Dinale

Holy Family Catholic Primary School, Lindfield

Pauline brings to Catholic Schools Broken Bay strong School Executive Leadership experience from her various roles at Sydney Catholic Schools.

Most recently Pauline has held the role of Principal at St Margaret Mary’s, Randwick North where she has embedded an evidence-based school-wide professional learning culture of consistent pedagogical practices to ensure growth and achievement for the students and to foster their potential to be the very best they can be.

As a principal and leader in a Catholic school, her mission is to accompany others by welcoming and supporting them to discover the meaning of Christ in their lives by developing an environment that fosters a thriving Catholic community.

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Pauline is passionate about whole-school strategies that increase literacy and numeracy outcomes through innovative practice and teacher wellbeing support. As a leader of curriculum, she has successfully led imperative change by developing a learning culture through a number of school strategic and annual plans to address the needs of students which she will bring to Holy Family.

Pauline is also strongly committed to our Towards

2025 Strategy and our Vision of continuing to provide authentic, professional Catholic education, delivered with care and compassion.

“As principal, I will mentor and assist teachers to adopt best practices that positively impact students’ learning outcomes and growth. I want to create a learning environment which is authentic, challenging, innovative and caters for the diversity of all learners with high expectations that all learners can and will learn and flourish in a safe, effective and fun learning environment.”