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The Community Leader Awards
22
Brisbane Catholic
Education is committed
to high-quality teaching
and learning for more
than 70,000 young
people enrolled in our
schools and colleges
from Prep to Year 12.
Their community of
137 schools within the
Archdiocese of Brisbane
is founded on Christ
and is at the service of
our students, families,
society and the Church
– teaching, challenging
and transforming.
Brisbane Catholic Education
is the proud sponsor of the
School Leader of the Year
2017 Category
What do you do in your
community?
In my school community at St Rita’s,I spend a
lot of time here. Again, we celebrate monthly
everyone’s birthday or some sort of feast like
that. We have celebrations together. We’re a
rather large staff now so you don’t see everyone
every day but simply the people that are in your
area or that you teach with or that you work
beside so, there’s a community spirit there too.
I think St Rita’s is known as a friendly school.
How did you get started?
As a little girl my dad died and it was decid-
ed that I would go to boarding school. They
tried various schools but I couldn’t get there
and eventually I think it was Monsignor Leo
Carlton, said at the time, “I know a good little
school”. So I came here when I was about eight
and I’ve been here almost ever since.
Sr Elvera Sesta has helped shape the lives of thousands of young women at St Rita’s
College, Clayfield. She’s been part of the school community for 60 years
Winner
- School Leader of the Year 2017
sr elvera sesta