Around the College
Technology
Excursion to Top Designs and Darn Cheap Fabrics
On Tuesday 20th May, our Year 11 and 12 Product Design and Technologies (Textiles) students embarked on an inspiring excursion to the 2025 Top Designs exhibition at the Melbourne Museum. The exhibition showcased outstanding student work, including folios that offered valuable insight and inspiration for our own students’ current projects.
In addition to the textiles displays, students explored exhibits from Visual Communication, Systems Engineering, and Media, broadening their creative perspectives.
The day continued with a tram ride to Darn Cheap Fabrics on Smith Street, where students gathered samples and purchased materials for their upcoming garments.
A big thank you to Mrs Heather O’Brien for accompanying us throughout the day, and to Mr Rosario Ripper and Mrs Janine Stockdale for joining us at the museum with the Visual Communication students.
Ms Sue Formanek
Textiles Teacher
Visual Arts
Year 7 Students Bring Famous Artists to Life!
This term, our creative Year 7 students explored the world of sculpture by designing and building plaster busts inspired by famous artists. From Kusama to van Gogh, each student chose an iconic figure from the art world and set out to recreate their likeness using newspaper armatures, plaster bandages, and a lot of imagination!
Students worked carefully to shape facial features, hairstyles, and unique details that reflected the personalities and styles of their chosen artists. Once dry, the busts were painted and decorated with vibrant colours, expressive textures, and clever finishing touches.
This project was a wonderful way to combine art history, creativity, and hands-on building skills—and the final results were both fun and impressive! Well done to our budding sculptors.
Ms Adelle Frittitta
Art Teacher
VCE Visual Communication Design
To support our VCE Visual Communication Design and VCE Product Design and Technology: Textiles students, an excursion to Top Designs at Melbourne Museum occurred on 20 May. This allowed students to see highly commended folios and design solutions that were produced by students from all around Victoria. It is hoped that these students will be able to draw inspiration from these outcomes for their own folios and final presentations, now and into the future.
VCE Visual Communication Design students were then privileged to tour Monash University, Caulfield Campus, to see the experiences and opportunities that future tertiary studies in Design could provide them. Students visited the D-Fab (Digital Fabrication) Workshop to see laser cutters and 3D Printers in action, walked through some Design Studio Spaces, spoke with Mobility Design Lecturer Dr Selby Coxon, and looked through the Fine Art Studios to see what creative works students were up to. The tour ended with a talk by Trent Walter, PhD Researcher and MUMA’s artist-in-residence, who demonstrated the exciting possibilities of Printmaking in addition to showcasing several final presentation formats created using this design method.
Thank you to Monash University for providing our students with this opportunity, and to our staff, Ms Sue Formanek, Ms Bessie Murphy, Ms Heather O’Brien, and Mrs Janine Stockdale, for helping coordinate and facilitate these visual experiences for our students. Please take a look at the photos from the excursion.
Mr Rosario Ripper
Instructional Leader Visual Arts
Year 10 Youth Ministry
On the Thursday 8 May a group of 15 Year 10 students from the Youth Ministry classes attended a retreat at St Elizabeth's Primary School. The student-lead program gave all students the chance to work with each other and grow in their faith. The Year 10 students prepared and ran retreat-based activities on the primary student's upcoming 1st Eucharist sacrament. This involved related games and Bible teachings crafted to be engaging for the younger students.
We look forward to the next retreat for the two schools in Term 3 based on the Church's teachings of Social Justice.
Mr Peter Nathan
Instructional Leader Religious Education
SIS Cross Country Carnival
We had a good day out yesterday at the annual SIS Cross Country Carnival despite the average weather in the afternoon.
I am delighted to report that we have three students who placed in their races:
Charlie George (Year 11 MA3) - First place U17 Boys
Isabella Matulic (Year 9 MX1) - First place U15 Girls
Scarlett O'Dor (Year 9 MK5) - Third place Open Girls
Nazareth also won the U14 boys’ pennant which is a great achievement.
I would like to thank Mr Mark O’Sullivan, Mrs Teresa De Boer, Mrs Janine Stockdale, Mr John Brenton, and Mr Luke Georgakopoulos for all their help with the day.
Overall, it was a fun day out and the students were very well behaved.
Ms Tenille Kirk
Sports Coordinator