Around the College 

Year 10 Cake Decorating

Over the past few weeks Year 10 Food Studies students have been busy planning their cake design, baking mud cakes and learning how to ice and decorate cakes. The students must be congratulated on their fine efforts. The finished cakes were creative and professionally finished. Many new skills have been learnt so they can make many wonderful celebration cakes at home in the future for family and friends!

Thanks to everyone who assisted as this is a massive undertaking but well worth it when you see the end results and the smiles on students faces!

Ms Kate Goodwin

Instructional Leader Technology

Lego Workshop

The LEGO Workshop has been a recent introduction to the assortment of lunchtime activities offered at Nazareth College. There has been a great uptake amongst the students from a range of year levels who participate in a variety of LEGO related activities. This can be from building your own creation using a collection of colour pieces, building smaller sets individually, or contributing to a larger set as a group. In what we thought would take them a few school terms, some students have powered ahead and completed the wonderful LEGO World Map set. 

Pictured here with their creation is Alicia Bobola, Quinn Cozis, Joshua Smith, Rachel Browne and their project manager, Joshua Kosier. These students have worked well together and have finally finished the largest LEGO model ever, totaling 11,695 pieces.

This set will be displayed in the Makerspace area and will eventually be turned back into its original state of separate pieces for other students to build. That, or Josh K will find the instructions to the ‘Pangea’ model and recruit many more students to his cause. 

Mr Mitchel Berryman

Lego Workshop Coordinator

St Patrick's Day Mass & Young Speakers Colloquium

On Friday 21 March, I was back at St Patrick’s cathedral for another Mass. I was accompanied by my fellow College Captains and students from our Youth Ministry classes.

This mass celebrated the feast day of St Patrick and we were joined by many catholic primary and secondary schools from across the diocese. It was amazing to see so many young students come together to celebrate the life of St Patrick. Victoria and I were also invited to process in with the Nazareth flag along with the plethora of schools who made the journey. It was wonderful to see so many young people come together and give glory to God. First at our opening mass, and here as well for the feast day.

During Archbishop Comensoli’s homily, he reflected on St Patrick’s journey. More specifically, the fact that St Patrick returned to Ireland as a missionary following his time as a slave there. Archbishop Comensoli said it was thanks to the faith that God had given to St Patrick he was able to return to place he once dreaded. Furthermore, Archbishop Comensoli stated it was faith that gave St Patrick purpose, and how we too can find our purpose by deepening our faith.

Following the mass, we walked to the Catholic Leadership Centre for the Young Speakers Colloquium, where guest speakers are invited to lead deep discussions surrounding our faith. This year, they invited secondary school student leaders to lead the discussions. I was blessed with the opportunity to be one of the guest speakers, due to my involvement in the ACU School Leaders Program, which took me to Rome and London late last year. The afternoon was filled with delicious food and deep conversations, and MACS was kind enough to reserve a table for the ACU Student Leaders. 

I was a part of the first panel of speakers, along with my friends who also travelled with me last year. I was asked deep questions such as “How has your involvement in the ACU School Leaders program influenced and shaped decisions you are making in both your current and future plans” and “If you wanted to encourage other young people to live lives of faith and love, what advice or guidance would you offer them?” Following our panel, Fr Jerome Santamaria, the chaplain from my trip spoke about this years theme “Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you (Is 60: 1).” Fr Jerome spoke about how we ourselves are not the light, but are reflecting God’s light, his goodness and love through our actions and words. 

I loved every minute of Friday, the Mass, the chance to see my friends from my pilgrimage and the opportunity to share what I had learnt from my trip, not just the Instagram-worthy photos. I would like to thank Mr Cosentino for giving me permission to attend the colloquium, Mr Stewart for his behind-the-scene works, Mr Nathan for driving us to and from St Patrick’s and my co-captains for accompanying me again to St Patrick’s.

Jordan Tissera

College Co-Captain

MACS Creative Arts Exhibition

Nazareth College was honoured to present three student works from Art Making and Exhibiting and Visual Communication Design at the 2025 MACS (Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools) Creative Arts Exhibition this year. This event demonstrated many of the best creative works of students who attend MACS schools. It was great to see our students’ outcomes stand proudly with the other students’ pieces during the event and the Awards Ceremony on Sunday afternoon. Congratulations to Tessa Di Pilla (Year 10, Knox 2), Asher Stockdale (Year 8, McCormack 2), and Luisa Nicolaci (Year 11, McAuley 2), for having their works nominated and selected for this year’s exhibition. Thank you to Ms Mirella Venturini, Ms Heather O’Brien and M. Bessie Murphy for nominating, helping coordinate and organising the pieces that were entered. Please take a look at the students’ great outcomes at the exhibition.

Mr Rosario Ripper

Instructional Leader Visual Arts