For Tim Cleary, the phrase "full circle" has been coming to mind a lot lately. Subscribe now for unlimited access . $ 0 / (min cost $ 0 ) Login or signup to continue reading Continue with Email Continue with Google Continue with Apple See subscription options The experienced educator and one-time Manly Sea Eagles chief executive will return to where his career started when he takes up his new post as St Edmund's College principal.
When he walks through the doors next year, it will be his fourth stint at the independent Catholic boys' school. The very first time he was a 20-year-old new scheme teacher stepping into his first teaching role in 1986. He came back to the school as a coordinator and then returned as deputy principal from 1997 to 2001.
"I'm very excited to be back in Canberra, and also leading St Edmund's," Mr Cleary said. "It's a place I love and it's a place that I want to make sure that builds into the future with great strength and unity." Mr Cleary is currently interim principal at St Thomas Aquinas Primary School in Charnwood after the former principal Leah Taylor was appointed to run the Catholic early learning centres late last year.
His previous roles include working for his own consultancy business, principal at All Saints College Maitland and a director role in the Sydney Catholic Education Office. Mr Cleary was headmaster at St Augustine's College, a Catholic boys' school in Sydney's northern beaches, from 2002 to 2016. In that time, he grew enrolments f.
