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Semester 1 student reports have now been made available (Years 1 – 6) and I am pleased to note that all students have displayed improvement with their learning. I hope that parents have found the reports and the subsequent parent/teacher interviews to be informative. I have noticed that the vast majority of parents have engaged with their child’s teacher and I thank the teaching staff for their availability of time to meet with parents over the last week.
Despite illness continuing to impact on students and staff, I believe that Term 2 has been very successful in relation to students remaining engaged and focused on their learning. A number of school events, including the Mother’s Day stall, Grandparents Day, the school Disco and the Year 5 and Year 6 excursions have enabled the school to further emerge from the constraints of COVID restrictions to re-established a greater sense of community across the whole school. This will continue next Term particularly with our school Athletics Carnival now scheduled to occur Thursday July 21 (Week 1) and the launching of the school’s involvement with Jump Rope for Heart.
Refer to additional information about the Athletics Carnival in this newsletter.
Information in relation to Jump Rope for Heart (the promotion of skipping to raise awareness and funds for heart health education) will be communicated to all families at the commencement of next Term.
Next Term, for the first 3 weeks Mrs Lisa Tyson will fulfil the role of Acting Principal at St Thomas More Catholic Primary School Ruse and Mrs Lisa Mammone will fulfil the role of Acting Assistant Principal at Nazareth. I congratulate Mrs Tyson on her appointment and I thank Mrs Mammone for her preparedness to fulfil the role of Acting Assistant Principal.
Following a time of preparation a large number of children from across the parish will receive the sacrament of Confirmation this Sunday. Bishop Brian Mascord will confer the sacrament upon 80 children at an 11:00am Mass.
I wish to extend my thanks to the Nazareth staff for their ongoing extra-ordinary work and I hope that staff and all families enjoy the break over the next 2 weeks.
I look forward to welcoming everyone back to Nazareth Monday
July 18.
Enjoy the weeks ahead.
Peter Dempsey
Principal
All mass times can be found in the All Saints Parish Bulletin and all other important information. A link can be found on the Parish Website: https://www.dow.org.au/parish/all-saints-catholic-parish-shellharbour-city
This week in 6U students have been preparing for their Confirmation.
Each student was required to investigate and research the Saint that they had chosen as their Confirmation name. Included in this investigation students researched the special qualities of their saint, what their saint did to inspire others and why they were recognised as a saint.
On Friday Year 6 will participate in a Confirmation Retreat Day in readiness for Confirmation on Sunday.
As part of our age appropriate pedagogy, Kindergarten have been engaged in a unit this term called, ‘Saving Humpty Dumpty’. KS students conducted scientific investigations to learn about push and pull forces and the properties of materials. They investigated ways to keep Humpty from breaking, and designed, made and evaluated ways to build a stable wall, marble runs and Rube Goldberg devices.
Year 6 excursion to Cataract Scout Camp
This term, Year 6 went on an excursion to Cataract Scout Camp. The students were very excited for the excursion and the students' excitement was at a high, despite the early morning start. We got to go on the giant swing, complete a rescue mission and then hit the obstacle course (which included some water activities). The students were exhausted by the end of the day and ready for a rest on the bus ride home.
Here are some recounts of our excursion:
"We arrived at the giant swing, it was so high! When I looked at it
I was so scared. There was a ladder crew, and a rope crew. The ladder crew had to bring in the ladder and take it out when the person was ready to enter and exit. The rope crew has to pull the person up that was currently swinging. When the person was ready at their height, they stopped. “THREE, TWO... ONE!!” Mark yelled. When I went up, it was so scary!!
They drop you unexpectedly and you get butterflies." - Mia De'gidio
"We had to walk about a kilometre to get there but I enjoyed walking alone in that area, it was like a Forest and I really enjoyed walking. Once we got there we ate recess and he explained what we had to do, it was boys vs girls to do it and Mia and I were telling everyone what to do and no one would listen by the end of it. I had a sore throat but while we were doing the team rescue our celebrity was JJ from Outer Banks. We had to jump on tyres and logs to get across. I fell off about 6 times. All of the girls were getting frustrated because the boys were coming closer and all the girls were stuck on one tyre. We had about 13 girls in our team. Once we made it across we had to go across swing and Mia went first. Once she got over, the swing hit her in the chin and she got a bruise. She still has it right now then I went across and got over pretty quickly but once I got across David said it was finished but not all the girls made it over." - Chelsea Alaban
"When we were walking to the obstacle course I was not expecting much after that team rescue activity, but I was in shock when I saw the first obstacle. There was a ladder then underneath there was WATER! We had to climb up the ladder, climb down some stairs and then jump in water…. All I can say is the water was FREEZING! It went up to the top of our legs. The next obstacle was ANOTHER water activity, we had to climb up some stairs, cross a bridge and then swing into the water ON A ROPE, It was crazy! Thankfully the next activity wasn’t as bad, we had to simply climb up and down stairs and then jump in a really shallow pool of water after that we had to rub mud on our face! But the next one was the WORST out of them all, we had to crawl through a tunnel with water in the middle, we only had a little bit of air space! I nearly pulled out of that one but I wanted to try every single one. The next one was another crawling obstacle and it was the last water one, we had to race someone while crawling in a water pool under a net. That was the last water activity and after that there were dry activities like a bridge or a ladder that we had to climb.” - Sebastian Forlano
Year 5 Excursion to Calmsley Hill Farm
On Wednesday 22nd June, Year 5 visited Calmsley Hill Farm, to further our knowledge about the Food and Fibre industries in Australia.
After a quick snack, we were able to visit the farm's nursery and meet: goats, sheep, ducks, chickens, pigs and mice! Then it was onto a stage three tour of the farm. Here we were able to see the farm from different viewpoints and appreciate the quieter side of life. We discussed sustainable farming practices and looked at how a farm operates daily.
Finally we were able to revisit some more animals, this time it included camels, cows, kangaroos, kelpies and foxes.
We ended our day at the farm with a whip cracking show! We loved it.
Thanks to our teachers for organising such a great experience for us.
Year 5
The Athletics Carnival will be held on Thursday July 21 at the Croome Road Athletics Field Albion Park.
All students are to attend the carnival at Croome Road. Students will not be on the school site on that day.
Students who have already pre-nominated for the 800 m running event (8 year old – 12 year) are asked to arrive at the field by 7:50am. All other students are to be at the field by 8:25am for the first activities/events to commence at 8:40am.
Parents /carers are welcome to attend for the day.
Students are to wear their sports uniform (and can incorporate the colour of their sporting house eg ribbons/scarfs, no coloured hair). A warm jacket will required in accordance with the expected cold weather forecast.
More information will be communicated Week 1 of next Term.
NAZARETH AWARDS
Alessandra Barrass
Ava Sirijovska
Azariah Ioannou
Brianna Bryce
Cristian Sangiuliano
Lydia De Jesus
Tyler Ryan
PRINCIPALS AWARDS
Christian Barrass
Emmanuel Vu
Milla Fullagar
Austin Clark
Lydia De Jesus
Jacob Hulbert
Amelie Clark
Cristian Banovic
Alexis Chase
Hailey Gropp
Jackson Horsey
Daniel Khomoutov
Amelia Higgs
Daniel Jebara
MERIT AWARDS
| CLASS |
Week 8 - Collaboration |
Week 9 - Excellence in Visual Arts |
| KN | Aditya Panda | |
| KN | Archie Wigmore | Patrick Batman |
| KS | Mia Hamilton | Jude Mcmullen |
| KS | Evie Miller | Reign Mastrodomenico |
| 1S | Oisin Mahon | Ava Aitchison |
| 1S | Bethany Farrugia | Emmanuel Vu |
| 1H | Cara Cave | Lukas Sarin |
| 1H | Claudia Sears | Claudia Sears |
| 2E | Scarlett Murphy | Harper Ross |
| 2E | Cohen Garbayo Vergan | Harry Urquart-Duchesne |
| 2L | Nate Reid | Tomas Rivera Marin |
| 2L | Aubrey Pepper | Zach Mayfield |
| 3L | Alexa Trencevski | Luca Wray |
| 3L | Oliver Hopgood | Bianca Pires |
| 3H | Amalia Rodrigues | Olivia Walton |
| 3H | Rennan Rey | Harrison Tanevski |
| 4A | Olivia De Gabriele | Liam Maksovic |
| 4A | Rocco Portelli | Thomas Markovski |
| 4R | Alessandra Barrass | Ella Moreira |
| 4R | Savannah Pepper | Lin Chey |
| 5B | Sonny Cocksedge | Anabel Sotomayor |
| 5B | Natalia Tanevski | Jordan Van Der Kooi |
| 5O | Ruby Smith | Jackson Horsey |
| 5O | Kaiden Murphy | Amarni King |
| 6U | Chelsea Alaban | Annalisia Ayoub |
| 6U | Mikhail Manalansan | Mikhail Manalansan |
| 6R | Maja Sofronijoski | Dion Chey |
| 6R | Amelia Higgs | Maja Sofronijoski |
Nikki Moulas, Grace Hopkins, Jacob De Gabriele, Cara Cave, Lin Chey, Ava Dukleski, Olivia Schmidt
Last week, the winning house colour for our PB4L tokens was announced!
The winning house is…
Bethlehem!
Well done to the children in 'Bethlehem' (red house)! The children were rewarded for their hard work with the privilege of wearing their house colour on Wednesday this week. Congratulations!
NAZARETH PROMOTIONAL FILM
The film captures a day in the life of a Nazareth student.
Click https://youtu.be/olug9FWvZQI to view the film
FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM PAGE FOR NAZARETH
If you haven't already please follow our school pages to keep up to date with events at school and for photos and updates from across the school.
Please click on the direct links to follow our pages:
www.facebook.com/nazareth.shellhabour
www.instagram.com/nazareth.shellharbour
SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY
Please click on the below link for a direct link to the social media policy.
https://www.dow.catholic.edu.au/about-us/policies/social-media-policy/
