Third Place in the SIS Book in a Day Competition 2025!

A huge congratulations to our 2025 Book in a Day Team – Audrey L, Alyna J, Ava G, Jamie B, Masa B, Tessa D, Renae S and Oliva C – who came 3rd overall.

Student voting placed the team in the top 4 and then “Fire on Ice” was read by an editor from Scholastic Australia. Please read the amazing comments below:

3rd place: Fire on Ice - Nazareth College

Fire on Ice gave an incredibly realistic impression of what it must be like to be a competitive figure skater. I was instantly absorbed into the story’s world, and felt a strong emotional connection to Seraphina and Hades. The writing in this story was the strongest of the four finalists.

The cover art and title design were exceptional—definite ‘wow’ factor. The poses and facial expressions on the internal art were also powerful. Allowing for the different illustration styles of the artists, it could have made for a more polished look if the internals illustrations were a little more consistent—for example keeping to the same size or shape, or using similar palettes.

The prompts for this one seemed particularly challenging, where the intergalactic lizard never quite fit in with the figure skating drama. Hades destroying the rink didn’t quite fit the scenario prompt of ‘lizards taking over the world’. I was nevertheless impressed by the amount of heart and emotion the team packed into the story, and the ending was thrilling.

Kate Wenban

Commissioning Editor, Scholastic Australia

The team also placed 1st in the following categories:

The team was awarded certificates plus a $200 voucher from Campion Education to buy some new books for the library.

Again, congratulations to the team for an outstanding effort.

Ms Nicola Bailey

English Teacher

Vinnies News

Thank you to EVERYONE who supported the Assist A Student Appeal on Wednesday 29 October, by embracing the casual clothes fundraiser and purchasing sausages. We were blessed with beautiful weather, which allowed us to cook and sell the snags!

A huge thank you to Ms Caitlin Mackay, Ms Renee Brash, Josh S , Anesti K, Xavier M and Matthew G for cooking 700 sausages! To Ms Sandra D'Souza, who multitasked in several capacities - thank you. Thanks to Ms Melissa Hilton for having the card payment available and counting the cash! Thanks to the Vinnies who helped to set up, sell and clean up.

These days are not possible without the generosity of everyone. We raised $2844.50, which is a mighty effort. This will support the education of 40 children for a year in less developed countries.

Our final appeal for the year is the Christmas Toy drive.

Following the amazing contributions from the Year 12 cohort (see the Giving Tree in the Resource Centre for inspiration), we are asking all students to make a donation of a toy suitable for a child aged 1-18 years.

These donations will be distributed to families within our local area who may not be able to afford presents for their children this Christmas.

A Santa Sack will be placed in every Pastoral room, and over the coming weeks, we would love to see them filled with generosity, love and fun, in the form of toys.

This appeal will run right through to 5 December (last day of Term 4).

Thank you all for thinking of others.

Ms Lisa Douglass

Social Justice Coordinator

& the Vinnies Team.

Visual Art

SIS Art, Design, Media, and Technology Exhibition

Over the past week, Nazareth College has been privileged to showcase our students’ works in the well-regarded SIS Art, Design, Media, and Technology Exhibition. This is an exhibition open to the public with our pieces being displayed alongside pieces from over 17 other SIS schools. We had 28 pieces from Nazareth College on display across our art, design, media, and technology subjects.

Congratulations to the following students who had their pieces selected for display:

Tori Kammel, Ryan Chan, Micalah Mendoza, Ava Tamvakis, Olivia Chen, Ayoolaoluwa Ladeinde, Miranda Karam, Aria Nugyen, Ken Enriquez, Elisha Mac, Scarlett O'Dor, Masa Basic, Cayla Ho, Jelena Romulo, Krystal Ngo, Quinn Cozis, Pieta Jada, Alysha Try Heang, Sienna Tran, Madeline Sandjaja, Luisa Nicolaci, Bernice Arigu, George Browne, Victoria Tsolakis, Camellia Chi, Brian Sam and Afreda Jermico.

In addition, this year, we had a number of works nominated for awards. A huge congratulations to the following students and their outstanding recognitions:

1st Place for Design: Huiyang (Camellia) Chi (Year 12, VCD Logo and Boho Bag)

1st Place for Media: Victoria (Tori) Kammel (Year 12, Media Music Video)

Special Mention for Art: Olivia Chen (Year 10, CAnDR Digital Painting)

Special Mention for Art: Victoria (Tori) Kammel (Year 12, Art M&E Sculpture)

Special Mention for Art: Micalah Mendoza (Year 10, Art M&E Impressionist Painting)

These pieces were selected from over 450 pieces entered into the exhibition. This is a fantastic result for these students for all the time and dedication that they have put into their pieces.

Furthermore, thank you to the following teachers and assistants for supporting our students to create these excellent works on display: Mr Chris Brown, Ms Zoya Curcio, Ms Sue Formanek, Ms Adelle Frittitta, Ms Patsy Furlong, Ms Kate Goodwin, Ms Mary Green, Ms Eliza Hastings, Mr Brendan Hermon, Mr Roland Khayat, Ms Murphy, Ms Heather O’Brien, Mrs Leesa Reynolds, Mr Rosario Ripper, Mrs Janine Stockdale and Ms Mirella Venturini.

Please take a look at our student’s incredible pieces from the exhibition below. If you would like to see the exhibition in person, it is open to the public until 15 November at Cube 37 in Frankston.

Year 10 Concept Art and Digital Rendering (CAnDR)

Year 10 Concept Art and Digital Rendering students have learnt how to work as a Concept Art to produce unique digital landscape pieces that tell a narrative. Starting with a line drawing produced in their Visual Art Journals, students scanned this drawing, brought it into Adobe Photoshop and then used different tools, including a Wacom Graphics Tablet, to paint over the drawing digitally. The results have turned out great, with strong uses of colour! Please take a look at the detailed pieces below.

Mr Rosario Ripper

Instructional Leader Visual Arts

Italy Study Tour 2026