During the month of October Australia joins the rest of the world to celebrate “World Teachers’ Day”. The theme for World Teachers Day 2022 is, “The transformation of education begins with teachers”.

On Friday 28 October Australia celebrates World Teachers Day and this year they have invited Australians to take their “hats off” to acknowledge the outstanding work that they do and the great resilience that our teachers have needed to navigate the challenges of recent years.

As we approach this day we inevitably begin to think of those teachers that have had a particularly profound impact on us. It may have been their exceptional knowledge or passion for a subject, the way they related to students, or the energy they brought to the classroom.

Jesus was a great teacher and educator and as we look back over his life, we can begin to see how he clearly transformed the lives of so many. Mary and Martha, Zachhaeus, The Woman at the Well, The Blind Man, the figures on the road to Emmaus and the lives of the Disciples to name just a few.

The question underlying all of these encounters is, what did Jesus do to support this transformative response? On close inspection, there are three consistent elements which appear again and again across each encounter;
Jesus met them where they were at.
He didn’t leave them where he found them.
He took them to a place where they couldn’t have gone on their own.

Jesus truly knew the people he was encountering. He deeply listened and he had a sense of what he needed to do to help move them to a place they were seeking to go. For all working in the sphere of education today, it is a model which is so powerful and relevant.

As we acknowledge World Teachers’ Day this Friday we are all invited to reflect on those teachers who have had the greatest impact on our lives and to consider ways we might emulate the example of Jesus and these great teachers.

First Holy Communion

The first of four student workshops for the preparation of First Holy Communion began this week.  Parents, remember to be punctual to the workshops with your child.  Also students are to be collected from school and then taken to the Hall for the workshop by a parent. This week at mass parents will be asked to select a preferred mass time of either 11am or 2pm on Sunday, 20 November 2022.

All Saints Day Nov 1 – Parish Feast Day

Years 3 – Year 6 will be attending Mass along with children from Stella Maris. Mass will commence at 9:30. Parents, family members and friends are welcome to attend.

Class Masses

Next week, Year 3 will be attending Wednesday mass at 9am. 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

This term in English 4R is learning about poetry. Each week we are focusing on a different poetic device, this week's poetic device is alliteration. Here are some of the simply stunning poems we have created.

In 5B this term the students are studying poetry.   The first task was to come up with a class definition of poetry and then to write their own Haiku poem.  A Haiku poem has three lines, five syllables, seven syllables and then five syllables, which can be tricky to write correctly.  Students were asked to write a poem about nature and they wrote some excellent Haiku poems.

NAZARETH AWARDS

Murphy Batman

PRINCIPAL'S AWARDS

Jaxx Kelleher

Jason Miller

Ava Keenan

Aveena Amoroso

Lucas Bryce

Hunter Cascone

Lucas Cartwright

Natalia Tanevski

Murphy Batman

Sebastian Forlano

Rubie Dimech

MERIT AWARDS

Layla Micallef, Hailey Gropp, Ariella Elphick, Nicolas Oberdan, Ashlyn Brown, Luke Formosa, Airlie Bates, Patrick Schonrock, Isla Ferns, Mia Honey, Harry Urquart-Duchesne, Claudia Sears, Joshua Kosteski, Austin Pepper, Finn Day, Parker Gilligan

Last week, we announced that the winning house for our PB4L tokens was…

JERUSALEM!

Congratulations to Jerusalem house members!

Well done to the children who are in Jerusalem (blue house)! The children were rewarded for their hard work by having the privilege of wearing their house colour on Friday last week. Here are a couple of photos of some of the children celebrating in their mufti clothes.

The next P&F meeting will be Wednesday November 2nd from 6PM - 7PM in the library. All welcome.

NSW Primary Schools South Coast Oz Tag Gala Day

If you have any questions, please contact the office.

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/