Around the College

YEAR 8 ENGLISH EXCURSION TO RICHMOND

The Year 8 English excursion was conducted around the area of

Richmond and Cremorne, the setting of the class novel, Runner by

Robert Newton. This was so that as students we could get a better

feeling of the main character’s journey throughout the story. To

experience this, we visited various places such as The Vaucluse, the

Rosella factory and Cubbitt Street where our protagonist, Charlie

Feehan lived. This allowed us to experience the difference in

architecture and how time may have affected certain buildings and

areas. Walking past homes built over a hundred years ago gave us a

sense that we had travelled back in time into the early 1900’s.

The day itself was made up of periods of walking, mapping, taking

photographs and receiving information, somewhat like a guided tour but

the most impacting part of the day was when we arrived at the Fitzroy

Gardens. With the fresh wind, giant trees and many massed plantings of

flowers the area was a place of beauty and so we placed ourselves upon

a hill where the view was spectacular. As we settled ourselves upon the

hill our teacher read out a dramatic chapter from the novel that took

place in the Fitzroy Gardens; it felt as if we were in the place where it all

happened, where all Charlie’s hardships, achievements and failures had

all been accomplished.

On the ride home we all chattered in satisfaction at finally resting but

secretly wishing the day would never end.

Chloe Hoffman

Year 8

Year 11 Chemistry

The Year 11 Chemistry class has been studying the topic of Ionic Bonding. One of the requirements of this subject is to complete practical tasks. Recently, the students completed a practical task on the structure of ionic bonds. Please see the attached film clip for the beautiful display of crystal structure. Some of them beat the beauty of diamonds!

Thanks for watching our class video.

Sheba Gurm

Science Co-ordinator

Mannix Day walk

I awoke on the 3rd of March perceiving a very dull day right from the get-go, however as the clock slowly ticked towards 8:00 am it came to my attention that today was the day of our Mannix day walk. I rushed my family to the car and we headed towards B J Powell Reserve, from where we would embark on our way to school. I greeted all the teachers and was surprised to see that our very own principal, Mr. Cosentino would be joining us on our journey. We took a photo and began to slowly make our way to the college, with both teachers and students conversing with one other. During the walk I became aware of what our walk symbolised; Daniel Mannix had walked to St. Patrick’s Cathedral being joined by others on a daily basis. The time we spent walking provided us with some nice bonding time between us all, as we came to understand each other a bit more. As we finally reached our college I can safely say we all felt a little more refreshed, happy and ready for the oncoming day. The walk proved to be a very nice time overall and I encourage all students to call a friend and join in next time.

Angelo Tyrone

Mannix 5

eLearning News

Never see a need without doing something about it.

Drawing inspiration from Saint Mary McKillop, Nazareth College has made an important addition to our Learning Technologies program by adopting one of the products of Google suites, Gmail to better prepare our learners to be active participants in a ‘digital-first’ world. While student and teacher email addresses continue to remain the same, in making this technological metamorphosis, we aim at providing our learners at Nazareth College with differentiated learning experiences and our staff with the ability to adapt instruction based on feedback, all leading to greater, measurable achievement for all our learners.

One size simply does not fit all. Acknowledging this difference in individual learning styles and abilities, teachers at Nazareth College aim to transition the learning of our students towards working in the cloud, where students can work both, independently and collaborate more easily. This will enable every one of our learners to be more productive and higher achieving. Teachers will be able to give feedback to learners working in Google Drive when files are shared with them. Google Docs, Drive, Gmail and more can work together to keep students organized and connected when teachers are able to manage the online instruction thereby keeping learners focused and organized online, building critical 21st century skills.

At Nazareth College, everyone will be teaching and learning in an interactive, collaborative, supportive and safe 21st century learning environment. To enable this, we ask parents and guardians to further our partnership and work towards the common goal of developing in every Nazarene, strong, positive patterns of behaviour when using technology. It is recommended that the appropriate internet use reinforces the Nazareth College Student Digital Learning Devices User Agreement. This Agreement contains detailed advice about appropriate uses of digital learning technologies, including guidelines for student responsibilities. We thank the families who have read through this agreement carefully with your child, and discussed its contents. Families where this has yet to occur, we ask that the Digital Learning Devices User Agreement be returned promptly, failing which, students who have not returned it by the 24th of March will have their access to the Nazareth College network, wireless and resources revoked.

Finally, as we assess the impact and effectiveness of our eLearning program, we would like to hear from families if this has made the learning process seamless and that if it has made learning more interesting and engaging or more cumbersome and difficult. We may need to delve deeper to identify any issues and may have to give it time for all of the kinks to work themselves out. But noticing that there is a problem early and making changes in how the technology is used can have a huge impact on its effectiveness on the learning of our students. At Nazareth College, we value the opinions of our families and hence ask if something does not feel right, we be made aware of it at elearning@nazareth.vic.edu.au.

Rinku Arora

eLearning Co-ordinator

International Education news

Since last year 2016, we’ve got more and more international students, our community gets bigger and bigger. Term 1 2017, we have 26 international students, but that doesn’t mean we only keep to ourselves. We listen to others, we learn new culture and religion from this school.

On the 8th of March, International Women’s Day, a lunch party was held at international center, our friends and teachers were invited to join us and celebrate. We brought Chinese dishes from home and they all enjoyed that day very much. It was a great party.

On 10th of March, the school arranged an excursion for international students to go to the City and visit many sites. We went to immigration museum, St Paul’s cathedral and National Gallery of Victoria and famous street art Hosier Lane. These are all brilliant places for foreigners to understand the culture, history and arts of Melbourne and Australia in general. We are so impressed of these cool buildings and the exhibitions. It is a fantastic experience for all of us.

As usual, every year the Governor of Victoria would invite international students from different schools cross Victoria and host a Welcome Reception in Government House. We are so pleased to meet the Governor and other people from the government. It is a huge building with finely decoration and the feeling of royal society. We stand inside the building it seems as if the glorious days are back again. The governor gave us a very inspired speech and also a girl who is the winner of the top VCE international student from last year. This is the best experience for all the attending international students. We also meets up with old friends from other colleges.

Christy Jiang Yiwen

Year 11