St Vincent de Paul (Mini Vinnies) Winter Appeal

Students of Mini Vinnies have been selling hot chocolates each morning before school.  All donations going to the Winter Appeal and students raised a whopping total of $744.60.  Nazareth families also donated an amazing amount of scarves, beanies, socks, tinned food and blankets.  Anna and Yvonne from St Vincent de Paul joined our assembly on Friday to be presented with all money and donations.  Both ladies were so overwhelmed with the generosity of Nazareth families and could not believe their eyes.  A big, big thank you to the kind and generous families of the Nazareth community.  Your donations will go to help many deserving families this winter. 

World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation

On Monday, Year 5 led the school in a liturgy for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.  From 1 September to 4 October we celebrate the season of Creation, inspired by Pope Francis' landmark encyclical Laudato Si’, which calls on "every person living on this planet" to care for our shared Earth.

First Holy Communion

For students in Year 3 or older, who have previously celebrated the sacrament of Reconciliation, there will be a parent information session on Thursday evening in the Hall at 7 pm.  Parents will receive information about preparing their child for First Holy Communion.  At least one parent must attend the parent information session.  Enrolment will be after any of the parish masses this weekend.  The celebration of the sacrament of Holy Communion will be held on Sunday, 20 November 2022 at 11 am and 2 pm.  If you are preparing your child for First Holy Communion, please keep this day free.

Today is RUOK? Day. The RUOK? initiative encourages people to stay connected and to have conversations that can help others through difficult times in their lives. Students were encouraged to wear something yellow, such as socks, scrunchie or a ribbon. Students engaged in lessons in their classrooms around how to ask their friends if they’re OK. Look out on Facebook to see some videos of students drumming in support of RUOK? Day!

ACTIVATE Fire

Next Wednesday, 14 September Year 6 will participate in ACTIVATE fire. ACTIVATE is a primary school Youth Ministry initiative for Year 6 students. The theme of this event centres on the Sacraments of Initiation with a focus on Confirmation, based on the Year 6 unit Confirmation: Celebrating the Gift of the Holy Spirit. The day is facilitated by Catholic Youth Mission Wollongong, where students will engage in activities, games and dance.  A letter to Year 6 parents is being sent home via COMPASS.

Class Masses

This week Year 4 attended Mass on Wednesday at 9am.  Next week, Year 2 will be attending. We welcome any parents, family members or friends who wish to join their children 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 KN, we have been wondering about the uniqueness of God's creation in our Religion lessons. We know that every cloud, rock formation, tree, beach, mountain, sunrise, sunset etc is different. How great is our God! We have written prayers of praise, painted beautiful pictures and drawn amazing things of our beautiful creation.

Congratulations

Congratulations to Sonny Dafkovski in 1S for taking part in the MS Readathon. Sonny read as many books as he could in August to raise funds to fund vital support services for people living with multiple sclerosis.

Altogether Sonny raised $1077.00 and read 63 books. We are very proud of Sonny! What a fantastic effort!

Special Vistors to Year 2

On Wednesday the 7th of September students from Corpus Christi brought 7 senior citizens to visit Year 2. During this time, students read to and with our special guests and then had an opportunity to draw one of the senior citizens. The students had a great time chatting to the special guests, asking them about their lives and having a laugh with new friends. Here are some of our experiences:

Layla - We enjoyed spending time with our special visitors. 

Alex - I learnt that when Bob came to our desk that he likes to read murder mystery books

Aubrey - I learned that Vicki loves drawing swirls. 

Zach - I especially enjoyed drawing Bob.

Saxon - I learned that Marie has a granddaughter in year 2 at Stella Maris. 

Home Readers

If any home readers are found at home (i.e those that we thought were lost but now are found), please return them to the school - no questions asked! 

School Assemblies are held at 2 pm each Friday unless otherwise notified. Usually, they will be held in the hall. 

In Maths, 3H have been learning about Fractions, 3D Space, Position and Patterns. We enjoyed learning about the faces, edges and vertices of 3D Objects and using playdough and matchsticks to create 3D Objects we know. Here are some photos of our learning. 

Last week our Nazareth community had a wonderful time celebrating Book Week.  Thank you to all our students, families and staff for taking the time to dress up and join in our Book Parade with such excitement and enthusiasm!  The children continued the celebrations on Friday joining in Stage rotations celebrating Book Week and their love of reading.  At Friday afternoon’s assembly the following winners were announced for our Book Week competitions, congratulations to the following students:

Class:	Names of winners
Colouring in competition Kindergarten winners	April Cassanego, Michaela Saveski, Beau Smith, Kendrix Jonovski, Ariana Gigliotti, Reign Mastrodomenico
Colouring in competition Stage One winners	Maci Mackaway, Ivy Telfa, Dylan Clapham, Christian Barrass, Claudia Sears, Georgia Hannaford, Cohen Garbayo Vergan, Nikka Moulas, Sofia Kitchener, Ana Keelan, Charlie Barr, Layla Ryan
Photo competition Stage Two winners	Lucy Vu, Hayden Reitsma, Amalia Rodrigues, Aria Phillip, Liam Maksovic, Aria Vengetas
Cake and Story box competition Stage Three winners	Madeline Schonrock, Hailey Gropp, Kaiden Murphy (cake), Aliana Maguire (storybox), Sophie Hulbert, Taurus Ivanovski, Memphis Coble (cake), Chelsea Formosa (storybox)

Carnival Book Fair

Our recent book fair was a huge success, thanks to all the parents and children who purchased books.

We raised a total of $1,202.55. This money will be used to purchase resources for Stage 3 literacy.

Congratulations to the whole Nazareth community who so far have raised $13 597 for the Heart Foundation with our Jump Rope for Heart program. So far we have 138 students registered with a whopping 112 hours of skipping logged. This is a fantastic achievement so far! Congratulations to Amalia Rodrigues who is, so far, our top fundraiser with $1111.18. If you haven't registered your child(ren) for this program it isn't too late, jump online (pun intended) to the following link to sign up. https://www.jumprope.org.au/parents

We are looking forward to our Jump Off Day, to be on the last day of this term, Thursday 22nd September. All children will be required to wear their sports uniform so they are able to take part in the rotational activities. K-2 will be taking part in activities in the morning session with 3-6 getting involved in the middle session. We can't wait for this awesome day!

Thanks to everyone in our community who has joined our Jump Rope for Heart initiative with enthusiasm and excitement!

Students in Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 have been learning about different artworks that have been inspired by dreams during Book Week as our theme this year was ‘Dreaming with Eyes Open’. Here are some of the exciting things we have been learning about in Visual Arts:

In Years 3 and 4 we read the story ‘Iceberg’ by Claire Saxby and illustrated by Jess Racklyeft. We were inspired by the colours of the Antarctic and were very persistent when we created our own DIY scratchboard artwork. We used oil pastels and a skewer to create our very own dreamscape of the Antarctic environment.

Mia H and Amalia R are presenting some of the completed artworks by 3H.

In Years 5 and 6, we have been learning about artists who create dreamscapes, like Howie Green. Inspired by his art piece, ‘Cosmic Sun’, we are creating our own version of a dreamscape using pencil, marker and oil pastels. Although we are not quite finished yet, below are some of our awesome artworks in progress. 

Year 6 answer the big question:

What is a Dreamscape?

A dreamscape is a landscape that you imagine or create like an imaginary world. - Tauris I

A dreamscape is an artwork that includes strange elements like colours, shapes and patterns that make it look like a dream - Calahni D

Dreamscapes are like dreaming with your eyes open, like our Book Week theme.  - Daniel J

You can create a fantasy world from your imagination and it can include realistic and unrealistic characteristics - Lexi M 

This week we are learning about the many reasons why artists use and create digital art pieces such as, for an advertisement or commercial and for an illustration of cartoon characters in a film or video game. We are taking on the challenge to use technology to digitally create a dreamscape artwork of our own.

The Christmas Art Story Competition and Exhibition

A few of our Year 5 and Year 6 students have shared their interest and have been participating in an incredible art project this term known as the Christmas Art Story Competition and Exhibition. It is an authentic and creative opportunity for students to explore and share the role of the Arts in Religious Education with the wider community with a focus on the scriptures of The Christmas Story.  All the students have worked diligently, exploring their connections to faith, to which is reflected in their incredible works of art. As you may already know, The Christmas Art Story is a wonderful opportunity that takes place across the entire Diocese of Wollongong, allowing for students from all over our community to get involved and compete. 

As we come to the end of our Christmas Art project in Term 3, we enter the second stage of the competition that will take place in Term 4. Only 6 students from each school across the Diocese are selected to enter into the competition where the artworks will be shortlisted for numerous awards. Artworks that make it through to the shortlisting stage of the Competition will be displayed in the Wollongong Art Gallery, which will be open for public viewing in the month of October (from the 8th-28th). 

Below are the 6 students from Nazareth Catholic Primary School who have been selected to move through to the second stage of the competition, alongside their incredible scripture based compositions. We’d like to congratulate all the students who have participated this year and wish those moving into stage 2 all the very best. 

Anabel Sotomayor, 'Gifts fit for a King'

Carolynne Chalmers, 'Blessing'

Christian Forlano, 'The Path to the Saviour'

Jaida Robinson, 'Almost There'

Mikayla Carriage, 'In God's Hands'

Olivia Sarin, 'Open and Change'

Next Thursday, September 15, Students will be competing in the Rod Wishart, Paul Mcgregor rugby league and league tag gala day. Could students attending please confirm and consent via Compass as soon as possible? More information regarding teams and the draw will be communicated through Compass closer to the date.

NAZARETH AWARDS

Archie Dimovski

Alexis Chase

Mason Aranega

Lily Pallone

Madeline Schonrock

PRINCIPAL'S AWARDS

Ashton Hopgood

Lucas Sangiuliano

Parker Little

Mason Redfern

James Wheeler

Morrison Cocksedge

Alexis Chase

Daniel Bell

Daniella Jebara

Madeline Schonrock

Harry Tompkin

Alexander Jovanovski 

MERIT AWARDS

Anabelle Darke, Jorja Witt, Ariella Ramos, Ava Sirijovska, Mia Gutierrez, Ashton Plociennik, Kayden Moyo, Willow Ross, Morrison Cocksedge, Dylan Clapham

This week our PB4L focus is on eating time at recess and lunch. Students are expected to sit respectfully and eat their recess and lunch, in their designated area with their peers.

Classroom teachers will be revising with the children how they can show the expected behaviours during recess and lunchtime, including:

• Walking to their designated area with their teacher;
• Sitting in their area, including others and remaining sitting until a teacher dismisses them;
• Eating only their food and keeping their area tidy;
• Putting their rubbish in the bin once a teacher has dismissed them;
• Placing your lunchbox in the tub carefully;
• Walking to get equipment for play time.

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/