Fresh approach to schools engagement

Catholic Mission has a long-established reputation as an outstanding provider of formation services and fundraising opportunities for the Catholic Education sector. Our innovative and interactive schools program engages the heads, hearts and hands of students and their families, enabling them to contribute support to communities in need around the world. This year we unveiled a new and groundbreaking strategy to closely integrate our range of offerings in the Catholic Education sector.

A team of Catholic Mission staff from across the country, highly experienced in education and mission formation, led the development of the strategy, drawing out the core expressions at the heart of our work in schools: Form in Mission; Pray, Advocate, Act; and Fundraise.

The team then identified the six key pillars of engagement with schools. These pillars are the areas where we offer Catholic schools the greatest value for their mission needs: Student Formation; Staff Formation; Immersions; Socktober; Community Partnerships; and Workplace Giving. The Catholic Mission Schools Strategy was adopted at the 2022 National Conference, coinciding with the delivery of the latest Strategic Plan (2022-2025), the Ecological Action Plan, and the Reconciliation Action Plan. This was deliberately timed, not only to make use of the national gathering of staff to introduce the strategy, but also to acknowledge the influence of the other three plans in the development of the schools strategy. The new strategy will guide Catholic Mission staff who are faced with the enormous and critically important responsibility of engaging the emerging generation of Catholic-educated Australians in the global work of mission. For decades, Catholic Mission has delivered a strong strategy for mission engagement among students and staff in Australian schools. The refining and formalising of this strategy is a significant step toward strengthening the relationships we have with schools across the country.

Schools Community Engagement

The School Community Engagement wheel guides educators in looking for year-round opportunities to empower their students to respond to the call to mission. By following the simple conceptual flow of the strategy. Education professionals can visualise their mission engagement plan for the year or expand their visionary planning to a period of several years. Learn more about our work in schools