Our Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle communities – including Catholic Schools, St Nicholas, CatholicCare and Parishes – decorated a visible space to recognise National Child Protection Week 2025.

The creativity and effort displayed by each Diocesan community was outstanding, making the judges’ task incredibly challenging due to the high quality of all the entries.

Despite this, our judges were able to select our 2025 winners. Find out who they are below:

Catholic Schools

Duilio Rufo, Assistant Director Catholic Schools, shares our primary and secondary winners:

• Primary Schools:

• Secondary Schools:

St Nicholas

Jacinta Gillies, Head of Early Education, shares our early education and OOSH winners:

• St Nicholas Early Education:
• St Nicholas OOSH:

CatholicCare

Find out who our CatholicCare winner is:

Parishes

Congratulations to Jesus the Good Sheppard, East Lake Macquarie who have won the Parishes category for Decorate Your Space 2025.

Learn more about Decorate Your Space and National Child Protection Week: