A listening ear

“We have many families who have come from a refugee background and have experienced trauma. So [chaplain] Brad has come into this community and the change has been profound. We once had something of an unspoken divide here between non-Muslims and Muslims. But I don’t...

One big family

“I see students and families who experience anxiety, domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse and with mental health and wellbeing concerns. Our Chaplain plays an important and critical role in our whole school process around Community and Parent Engagement and our...

A sense of belonging

“When my girls first arrived at school, they were practising Muslims and their accents were a bit different. Whenever a terrorist incident was on the news, my girls would feel the repercussions of that. Navigating differences like that in a school is hard, but...

Chaplaincy – Good for the Whole Family

I moved my two children from a school where they were very reluctant to go to school to this current school which has a chaplain. The chaplain offered a parenting course which I attended. I had been brought up with a single dad and so did not have a mother to ask,...

Never breaking trust

“When I was going to school and things were falling apart, I could just talk to [my chaplain]. There was a relationship there and I had built up trust in someone who never broke my trust. Looking back on it now, I was quite horrible going through my teenage years and...