November 23, 2015
Meet Angela Myles, the new principal who will be taking over at St Mary’s Catholic College on January 1.
Angela, her husband Rodney and four-year-old daughter Grace are moving to Kingaroy; Grace will be enrolled in Prep at the school next year.
Angela has spent 13 years at Shalom Catholic College in Bundaberg, including the past five years as Deputy Principal.
Before that she taught at St John’s in Dubbo.
She was born in Mudgee in central NSW.
“I am a country girl and I am looking forward to getting back to that again,” she told southburnett.com.au.
When she left school she studied accountancy and worked with KPMG in Sydney, but the call to become a teacher was too strong.
“It was the best move I ever made. I always wanted to be a teacher but for some reason I did not head in that direction at first,” she said.
So she enrolled at the Australian Catholic University and completed a post-graduate Diploma of Education.
Angela visited Kingaroy last week as part of the familiarisation process with her new school.
She has already met with the St Mary’s P&F Committee and the School Board, and attended the Year 12 Valedictory Dinner at Cassis.
The final day for current principal Michael Nayler is December 4, but he will be “on call” until Angela starts.
He’s heading off to become principal at St Michael’s Secondary College at Merrimac on the Gold Coast.
The school has about a thousand students, almost double the number at St Mary’s.
He has overseen many changes at the school in the four years he has been in Kingaroy.
The school was staffed for 290 students when he arrived; the projected number of students for 2016 is 555.
And Angela will be taking over a building site when she moves in.
Michael said he had hoped to have the current building program at the school completed on his watch, but the construction was about 10 weeks behind because of weather delays.
A two-storey building under construction facing Kent Street will contain six classrooms and a student services room; it will be serviced by a lift.
A music room is also under construction.
Michael said the school was also applying for funding for three more primary classrooms which he hoped would be available for 2017.
He said he wanted to thank the South Burnett community for their help over the past four years.
“They have been so welcoming and kind – the principals of the other schools, the mayor, Deb Frecklington … everyone. They have been amazing,” he said.
