Around the College 

Year 7 Knowledge Class Waste Land Response

 Ms Douglass’s Knowledge English class viewed a thought-provoking documentary, Waste Land, highlighting recycled materials at Brazil's largest landfill. The catadores from this landfill use their materials to create some fantastic art pieces inspired by Vik Muniz, a famous Brazilian photographer.

Students were then asked to respond to this documentary with a written and visual response. Students had to choose an issue linked to sustainability they felt strongly about and create their own Art Pieces from any recycled materials from home.

All year level students were invited to vote on these artworks and messages. The winning pieces were:

ART PIECE

1st – Constance Karatzias

2nd – Cristian Docanto

3rd- Michala Yalcin

BLURB

1st - Omar Thabet

2nd - Constance Karatzias

3rd - Ava Giannopoulos

Overall, the students did a fabulous job creating various artworks, highlighting worthwhile issues. Some students will present their TED Talk on the same issue next week.

Ms Lisa Douglass

Year 7 English Teacher

Sporting Achievement

Congratulations to Year 7 student, Omar Thabet, who is currently ranked in the Victorian Top 5 for Table Tennis in his age group.  Omar is ranked 12th in the country.  He currently plays for the Dandenong Table Tennis Club. In September, Omar came 1st in the Morning Frankston Junior Open competition in the Boys U13s division.

Mulgrave Country Club Scholarship

On Monday 30 October Nazareth student Allison Nguyen attended Mulgrave Country Club with her family to receive the John Milledge Scholarship Award. I had the privilege of attending the ceremony as the staff representative.

On this night, Mulgrave Country Club hosted its 21st annual scholarship presentation. Twelve local schools were each awarded a $2000.00 scholarship, presented by Club President, Jim Saunders. The successful recipients were from Caulfield Grammar, Rowville Secondary College, Brentwood Secondary College, Wellington Secondary College, Mazenod College, Wheelers Hill Secondary College, Carwatha College, Wesley College, Avila College, Nazareth College, Glenallen School and Emerson School. 

The scholarship was awarded to a worthy Year 11 student entering Year 12 studies. The criteria for the chosen recipient were not purely based on academic or sporting ability, but also personal sacrifice, citizenship and potential leadership.

We congratulate Alison on her Award. Alison was nominated by her teachers for this scholarship and has worked hard through the course of 2023. 

Nazareth College also extends its gratitude to Mulgrave Country Club and President Jim Saunders for their continued support of our community. 

Mr Sam Indge

Acting Head of House Knox

SIS Art, Design and Technology Exhibition

Over the past week, we have been privileged to showcase our Nazareth College students’ works in the well-regarded SIS Art, Design and Technology Exhibition. This was an exhibition open to the public with our works being displayed alongside works from more than 10 other schools. We had 30 pieces from Nazareth College on display from our art, design, and technology subjects. Congratulations to the following students who had their pieces selected for display:

Allannah Caratzas, Sophie Xerri, Victoria Kammel, Alicia Rasool, Nilia Tadbir, Emma Sidea, Paige Liston, Masa Basic, Cayla Ho, Robert D'Assisi, Luisa Nicolaci, class of 10VCD (Semester 1), Tianna Arcaro, Daniel Mastromanno, Dean Pikoulos, Sienna Footman, Bernice Arigu, Aria Nguyen, Lucas Olguin Basaldua, Luke Quinn, Elisha Mac, Lana Kovacevic, Alessia Trovarelli, Melissa Vasilev, Micalah Mendoza, Madeline Satur, Ava Tamvakis, Klara Benczedi and Kanika Toeng.

Please take a look at the student’s incredible works from the exhibition below.

Furthermore, thank you to the following staff members for supporting our students to create these excellent works on display: Ms Heather O’Brien, Ms Mary Green, Ms Sarah Elijah, Ms Sue Formanek, Mr Chris Brown, Mr Roland Khayat, Ms Adelle Frittitta, Ms Patsy Furlong, Ms Maria Hatzis and Mr Rosario Ripper.

Unit 2 Visual Communication Design

To conclude their studies in VCE Unit 2 for Visual Communication Design, students were challenged to complete a design process to identify a solution for a Brief that they wrote. They had a fictional client, Studio Lumos, and a Communication Need that they needed to create a response for. The Need was:

'To design a hanging light pendant for the interior of a house.'

Each student created a folio full of unique ideas that applied different creative, critical and reflective thinking techniques. This included using research, SCAMPER and interviewing peers for feedback to inspire them in the latter stages of the design process as well as writing annotations. Please take a look at some of the detailed folio pages and the exciting finals that the students produced.

Folios:

Finals:

Mr Rosario Ripper

Instructional Leader Visual Arts & Technology