WelCom April 2024
Jennifer Ioannou, Principal | Tumuaki
St Brigid’s School, Johnsonville, acknowledges and celebrates Deputy Principal Fiona Kearns on her remarkable 30-year tenure at our school – an impressive milestone!
Fiona began her teaching journey at St Brigid’s in February 1994 as a beginning teacher. She has held various roles in the school over the past three decades, from classroom teacher, team leader, Director of Religious Studies, Deputy Principal and Acting Principal.
Fiona has seen the school change and develop over the years, from staff and students starting and departing, new buildings added onto the Phillip St site or refurbished, and the school growing in size from a few classrooms catering for 180 students to 14 classrooms for 330 students as the school is today.
Fiona has brought a myriad of skills and talents to St Brigid’s, and has worked incredibly hard to ensure it is a school of choice and is highly regarded in Wellington’s northern suburbs’ community. She upholds our school values of whakapono (faith), māia (courage), aroha (love) and kotahitanga (inclusiveness), and seeks ways to promote these every day, demonstrating our school’s vision, ‘Learning together with strength of character and gentleness of heart’.
Fiona’s dedication and positive interactions with students, staff, whānau and our parish community, demonstrate her commitment to Catholic Education and to St Brigid’s School. She has made lasting and positive impacts on the hundreds of students she has taught, her colleagues, and the entire school community.
The St Brigid’s Board of Trustees celebrates, acknowledges and thanks Fiona on behalf of the school community for her three decades of dedicated outstanding service and leadership at St Brigid’s School.