Why these ACT students and teachers headed to class during the holidays

Brooke Wardana with students Edward Young, Ava Ballesteros, Gabriele Pearman, and Aahan Das, at St Thomas the Apostle Primary School in Kambah. Picture by James Croucher

Classrooms across Canberra were mostly empty and dark during the school holidays, but not at Kambah's St Thomas the Apostle Primary School.

More than 90 teachers gave up three days of their well-earned break to participate in a new form of professional learning provided by the Catholic Education Catalyst program.