St Vincent de Paul (Mini Vinnies) Winter Appeal

Students of Mini Vinnies have been selling hot chocolates each morning before school.  For a coin donation parents can come along and have a ‘cuppa with their kids’ of a delicious hot chocolate.  This has been a huge success, with Mini Vinnies selling out quickly each day.  Thank you to the parents and students who have supported us.

We are also calling for donations of beanies, scarves and socks from Kindergarten to Year 2 students and tinned food and blankets from Years 3-6. The deadline has been extended to next Friday, 19 August to enable a representative from St Vincent de Paul to come to our school to receive our donations.  Thank you so much to all of our amazing families who have already contributed.  All monies raised go to St Vincent de Paul in support of families in need this winter.

Class Masses

On Wednesday, Year 6 and Year 1 will be attending 9 am Mass.  It has been wonderful to see some parents and family members attending Wednesday masses with the students. We welcome all parents, family members or friends who wish to join us at any of the Wednesday masses.

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

In Year 5, we have been learning about the Catholic Church’s story in Australia. From the arrival of the convicts and early settlers, to what the Church looks like here today.

We have learnt about significant people and events, as well as their contribution to building the Catholic Church community.

We have particularly enjoyed learning about our diocese, the Diocese of Wollongong, led by Bishop Brian Mascord. We have explored the role of our Bishop and many others. Today our learning culminated in a very intense and excitable Kahoot game.

Well done Mason Reid for winning this knowledge quiz on our diocese.

1S have been doing a lot of work and having a lot of fun with our new class pet Rex.

In Religion we have been learning about how special the Bible is and listening to Bible stories and the word Precious!

In English, we are learning about comprehension strategies when we are reading. We have been visualising, predicting and making connections so far. Here are some pictures of us visualising and predicting.

In writing we are learning how to write recounts and use time connective words, like first, next, then and finally. We are also learning how to re read our work to check that it makes sense.

We are becoming great writers.

In Science we are learning how to code and had a great time programming our bee bots to make them go where we want them too. This is helping us learn positional language especially our left and right in mathematics.

We are reading book week books and really looking forward to celebrating book week! 

Companion Dog - Ita

Year 4 met Ita our new companion dog and we wrote some persuasive texts about her.

Why All Schools Should Have a Companion Dog

We must all have a companion dog at every school because we all get stressed out. Wouldn’t you be more calm if there was a companion dog? Imagine how much more calm it would be in the classroom with a companion dog. No one would ever be calm without a companion dog. Companion dogs have been making improvements with grades and behaviours. Clearly every school should definitely have a companion dog for the benefit of the school system.
By Sebastian 4A

I strongly believe that our school should have a companion dog. A companion dog would benefit our learning because the dog can help with people with or without a disability. Do you think that a companion dog will benefit your learning? How calming and relaxing would it be if you had a companion dog right by your side? When you get a companion dog your grades should go through the roof. Doctors have seen that there are less people with depression thanks to companion dogs. It is clear to see that all schools need a companion dog.
By Amelie 4A

What do you call your Grandma?

The Learning Centre enjoyed reading the book “What do you call your Grandma?” We enjoyed the visuals in the text and learning new ways to say grandma in different languages. After we read the text, we spoke about what we all call our own grandmas:

“I call my dad’s mum abuela and my mums mum nan” – Charlie Dall’Asta

“My dad’s mum is called grandma and my mum’s mum is called nanny”- Oliver Sandona

“I call my dad’s mum Grandma and I call my mum’s mum Nanny” – Ellie Cooper

“I call my grandmas babushka” – Liza Komotouv

Nazareth Athletics Carnival

Unfortunately, we were unable to hold a regular carnival due to the weather. On Monday the 1st, the events that were held were long jump, high jump, shot put and discus. On Tuesday the 2nd, were the races such as the 200m, 100m and the 800m. All the students should be proud of the way they competed, trying their best and showing great sportsmanship. 40 students were selected to compete in the South Coast Regional carnival on the 9th of August.

South Coast Regional Carnival

On 9 August, 38 students representing Nazareth competed in the South Coast Regional carnival, at Beaton Park, Wollongong. Although the weather was not kind and it was a rainy day, the students still gave it their best. All the students should be proud of the efforts that they displayed despite the weather. Out of the 38 students competing, the following 10 students qualified for the Diocesan Carnival. 

Ashton Anic - 12 Years | Long Jump - 1st | 4x100m relay - 4th

Jayden Boztepe - 12 Years | 100m - 2nd | 200m - 4th | 4x100m relay - 4th

Morrsion Cocksedge - 10 Years | Shot put - 2nd

Sonny Cocksedge - 11 Years | 800m - 3rd

Nathaniel Costas - 12 Years | Shot Put - 4th

Jack Kauter - 10 Years | Discus - 2nd

Harley Bermudez - 12 Years | 4x100m relay - 4th

Jesse De’Onelas | 4x100m relay - 4th

Aubury Pepper - 8 Years | 100m - 4th

Shimmah - Lee Williams - 11 Years | Shot Put - 3rd

We would like to wish these students the best of luck next tuesday 16th of August, where they will be competing for a place in the McKillop representative team. 

NAZARETH AWARDS

Daniel Khomoutov

Amelie Clark

PRINCIPAL'S AWARDS

Amelie Clark

Mason Sangiuliano

Ayden Lees

William Lakovski

Patrick Schonrock

Sebastian Maksovic

Scarlett Belo

Romeo De Ornelas

Liam Maksovic

Amelia Perez

Katie Sarin

Jayden Khoury

Amarni King 

Layla Markovski

Annabelle Darke

Ashton Plociennik

MERIT AWARDS

Jude McMullen, Alyssa Ryan, Layla Ryan, Alessandra Barrass, Adam Stojanoski, Ava Aitchison, Rennan Rey, Lucas Cartwright, Romeo De Ornelas, Isaiah Carrasco, Zoe Cockayne, Chelsea Alaban, Molly Bronish, Alexander Popovski, Cristian Banovic, Ruby Evans, Jacob Sekulovski, Lilijana Tivey, Saxon Rogers

PB4L Secret Mission

Over the next week, each class will set themselves 3-4 secret missions to complete as part of our PB4L focus. These secret missions will be for non-classroom behaviours and procedures. Teachers will attempt to guess the secret missions of other classes based on their behaviour and will report back when they have noticed someone completing the mission.

Students will be rewarded for displaying their secret mission with playground tokens for individual students or with whole class rewards.

Good luck and may your mission be successful.

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/