Deputy Principal Teaching and Learning Report

Welcome to 2025!

It was wonderful to greet all our students as they returned to school. It was also exciting to see our new Year 7s arrive at school. Parent engagement is a key ingredient for student success and we look forward to meeting with parents at the Year 7, VCE, and VCE VM Information Night, Student Progress interviews in Terms 1 and 3 as well as the important Subject Selection evening in Term 3 and at the many NCCA, performance evenings, sports and other events that make our college such a rich and diverse learning community. 

The VCE and VCE VM Information Night will be held on Wednesday 12 February, 6.30 pm to 8.00 pm. Information shared will be available electronically on SIMON and PAM under Knowledge Banks>Parent Information.

2025 Instructional Leaders

The Learning Team for 2025 provides leadership and guidance to staff and students, and can be contacted to provide expert advice in their field. The 2025 Instructional Leaders are:

• Religious Education                              Peter Nathan
• Applied Learning                                    Caitlin Mackay
• Visual Arts                                                Rosario Ripper
• Technology                                               Kate Goodwin
• Digital Learning                                       John Powell
• Performing Arts                                       Simon Landid
• English                                                       Mark O’Sullivan
• Health and PE                                          Andrew Moore
• Humanities                                               Donna Watts
• Languages                                                John Powell and Kathleen Taura
• Learning Diversity                                   Emma Wray
• Mathematics                                            Peter Venmani Louis
• Science                                                      Heather Murtagh
• Library                                                        Lisa Douglass and Mish Mackay
• Middle Years Studies Coordinator     Christopher Brown
• Senior Studies Coordinator                  Marjoleine Dekker
• Careers and Pathways                           Elena Flodstrom
• Director of Operations                           Ruth Sharp

Submission of Work in Years 7 to 9

Nazareth College has a policy about the submission of work by students in Years 7, 8 and 9. The Policy can be found on SIMON and PAM Knowledge Banks under Learning Handbooks and Forms. The policy is summarised in the diagram below.

We thank parents for your valuable partnership in educating your children and for your support with this and all other College policies and procedures: together, we build the knowledge, values and habits that form our Nazarenes as active, productive and critically-thinking citizens and as living embodiments of the Way of Christ.

Ms Claire Nailon

Deputy Principal Teaching and Learning