north east regional extra | May 29 - June 4, 2024
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May 29 - June 4, 2024
New face to lead Borinya By SIMONE KERWIN
INVOLVEMENT in an alternative year 10 program at his first school in North Keilor sparked the passion which has now led Eamonn Buckley to take on the principalship at Borinya Wangaratta Community Partnership. Mr Buckley, who has most recently spent two years as assistant principal at Albury’s Xavier High School, and before that was deputy principal at Catholic College Wodonga, is taking over at Borinya this term from Genevieve O’Reilly, who has been at the helm since 2018. He said helping to develop and seeing the achievements made through North Keilor Catholic Regional College’s Nitor program (which won praise in well-known parent educator Steve Biddulph’s 2019 book ‘The New Manhood’ as “the most exciting program I have come across in years”) had sparked his passion for such work. Nitor, which Mr Buckley developed with fellow teacher Brian Horan, was offered to year 10 boys disengaged with their learning or seeking a different challenge to prepare them for their final years of secondary school. “We saw a need around school disengagement and low level literacy; sometimes, even if you’re going along quietly, you can sometimes slip through in a class of 22 to 26 students,” he said. “I had been at the school for six years prior to the program, but I think Nitor probably lit the fuse for work in that pastoral space.”
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◆ SEASON OF CHANGE: New Borinya Wangaratta Community Partnership principal Eamonn Buckley is taking the reins from Genevieve O’Reilly, who has been principal since 2018. PHOTO: Simone Kerwin
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