It is with great pleasure that I welcome all of the new and continuing families for the 2025 Academic Year. We thank you for doing us the great honour of selecting Holy Cross College to educate your son. It is a sacred trust that you have placed in us
and we will endeavour to work with you in partnership to ensure that your son grows into the man that God wants him to be. Our College enjoys an enviable reputation and a 134 year tradition of educating the young men of Ryde and surrounding
districts.

Holy Cross College is an authentically Catholic school that strives to take seriously the charism of the Patrician Brothers who make hospitality and welcome their special care. This central pillar of the Patrician Charism extends from the perspective that we see Christ in all those that we meet and is reflected in the prayer attributed to St Partrick the ‘Breastplate of St Patrick.’ The “Breastplate of St Patrick” is how our  community commences each day.

Breastplate of St Patrick

2024 Higher School Certificate Results

I am pleased to report that 2024 was another successful year for our Year12 students.
With strong results achieved in Mathematics, English, Studies of Religion, Legal
Studies, Business Studies, Modern History, Ancient History and Personal Development Health and Physical Education. The College again improved in the media rankings, in fact 53% of students achieved in the top two bands and 22% achieved ATAR’s greater than 90. Angus Frawley was first in the State for Electrotechnology, Alex Mutimer and Alex Van Es achieved HSC Allrounder status by achieving the highest band in all subjects. The College is incredibly proud of our student’s achievements and look forward with much anticipation to what our current young men will achieve this year. I congratulate the students and teachers who have achieved such great results and look forward to meeting the young men in person at the High Achievers assembly on Friday 14th February.

New members of staff 2025

This year we welcome a number of new staff members to the College.

Jenna Redknap – (Barker College) Leader of Learning English
Madeleine Chong – (Sydney Distance Education) LBOTE
Christy Herrera – (Holy Cross College) HSIE
Stephen Belekas – (St Pauls Greystanes) Religious Education / HSIE
Stratia Vergos – (Narrabeen Sports High School) English
Natasha Philopoulos – (Casimir Catholic College) Religious Education / HSIE
Kathryn Mandoukos – Catholic Care Counsellor

2025 College Leadership Team

Your Contribution to maintaining the College’s high standards

The College has the highest expectations when it comes to the standards of academic effort, uniform, grooming, courtesy and respect. These expectations are demanded of every student. I am confident that this is being well communicated to your sons and shared with you by other leaders of the College. High standards don’t just happen, they are hard work, and they must be demanded by every adult member of the College community as an example to the youth for whom we care. Those ‘youths’ include your son and the ‘adults’ include teachers and parents alike. Your co-operation in reinforcing the expectation of high standards is necessary and important.

Sydney Catholic Schools Parent Charter Update:

“The Sydney Catholic Schools Parent Charterhas been updated and is available here.” 

I hope you share my enthusiasm and excitement for the year ahead. I look forward to
working with you as we continue to see Holy Cross College grow from strength to
strength.

The College has a number of significant events occurring over the next few weeks:

Objectionable Email filtering

Each Sydney Catholic School has an objectionable email inbox. Any email with objectionable content is redirected to this address, which the school monitors regularly. The filter for objectionable emails picks up poor language and violent, harmful, and antisocial content. 

The student acceptable user guidelines state that SCS is responsible for providing safe and secure online services.

• Students must behave ethically when using digital devices to access resources,
  communicate and interact with others.
• Online behaviour should at all times demonstrate respect for the dignity of each person.
• It is never acceptable to use digital devices to harass, bully or humiliate others.
• The school reserves the right to capture, store, and review all online activity and content created or accessed via the services provided by the College.

If you have any questions about this, please contact the College.