Booklists for 2025

Notre Dame College has elected to offer an enhanced online resource list (booklist) service to parents and students.

The Booklists can be found on the College Website: https://www.notredame.vic.edu.au/learning-teaching/booklists

Please click on the appropriate year level link to access the current booklists and electronic order form for 2025.

ALL orders include FREE HOME DELIVERY. Shop collection is also available from Campion, Telford Drive, Shepparton store.

Please note Year 7 2025: you will be notified once class subjects are finalised - Italian / Japanese(hopefully by the end of November/start of December.) You will then be able to complete your booklist for 2025.

Sustainable School Shop

We have partnered with Sustainable School Shop to provide families access to second-hand textbooks, uniforms, calculators, musical instruments, sports gear and much more.

Sustainable School Shop have preloaded items specific to our school onto their site. This makes it super easy to list your items for sale and to buy items.

See all the second-hand uniform items for sale here: https://www.sustainableschoolshop.com.au/stocktake/notre-dame-college

See all the second-hand textbooks for sale here: https://www.sustainableschoolshop.com.au/booklist/notre-dame-college

So jump onto the site, register and list your items for sale. You will be:

· reusing items rather than adding to landfill

· making money on items you sell

· saving money on items you buy

· providing another family in our school with cheaper items

· helping to create a culture of contact amongst our school community families.

Login or Register here: https://www.sustainableschoolshop.com.au

The Notre Dame Thrift Shop - a Terra Tomadachi project

Terra Tomadachi will officially open a thrift shop in the previous College Uniform Shop.

After tireless planning, 11 dedicated members made up of both students and teachers within NDC’s sustainability group, will finally get to share their hard work with the community.

The Thrift Shop started as a one-off event and the Terra Tomadachi group decided to bring it back as a permanent shop.

Since the commencement of the year, a group of students have been planning, collecting and sorting donated clothes from friends, the College and the wider community to prepare for the launch of the Thrift Shop. Often these students stayed after school to work on this project.

The group’s goal has been to reduce textile waste. When the Uniform shop closed all of the second hand uniforms and items that were not collected or sold would have gone to waste. Heidi Vanderspek, who is the leader of this project said that “rather than wasting these clothes we should try to make a difference within our school.”

As proof of its certain success, while finalizing the detail in the store the group made their first sale when a student entered looking for a new summer shirt. The group had just finished pricing everything and were able to sell him the required shirt. At the end of the visit, the student walked out with a full set of summer, winter and sport uniforms. The group gained confidence in their project and an $85 sale.

The Thrift Shop will be selling second had school unform as well as casual clothes priced from $5 to $25. Half of the profits from sales will be donated to Caritas while the other half will be reinvested into Terra Tomadachi to fund future projects.

The Terra Tomadachi team hope to support the school community by providing an alternative to buying uniform items; they also hope to help by reducing waste.

The Notre Dame Thrift Shop will be open every Wednesday from 3:15PM to 4:00PM.

Items will be listed on a website (to be advised) for customers to take a look before coming to the shop.

More information and details about opening times will be advised soon.

We invite you to support the Terra Tomadachi team by either buying or donating clothes or just taking a look around the shop.

By taking this step towards a sustainable future we hope to share our vision with both the school and wider community through projects like the Thrift Shop.

College Gardens

Our College grounds are always kept in beautiful condition thanks to our Gardening and Maintenance Team.

Check out some snaps from our Emmaus campus, in particular our stunning cross which is now in full bloom.

Congratulations to Alyssa and Giaan Williamson

National Youth Championships - Touch Football

In the first week of the term 3 holidays, Giaan and Alyssa represented Victoria at Coffs Harbour, in the National Youth Championships for touch football. The four day competition was sadly cut short due to severe rain that flooded the fields.

Giaan played five games on the under 14’s team with other 14 girls all from the Melbourne area. This year's under 14 girls team was Victoria's most successful girls team to have competed in NYC. The Under 16 girls had two teams compete over the two separate draws throughout the competition.

The Vic Storm Whites—the team Alyssa played in, drew while, unfortunately the Purples missed out on their opportunity due to the bad weather. Despite the weather cutting the event short, the competition was a fun and exciting experience for everyone who participated.

School Sport Victoria - Touch Football

During week 3 of this term, Giaan and Alyssa travelled to Redlands Queensalnd to represent Victoria in the under 15's school sport, touch football, Victoria team.

The competition lasted four days in which they played 7 games. During the 7 games, the Under 15’s had a couple of wins which made this year's under 15 girls team the most successful one our that group has had.

At the end of the tournament, Giaan took home the ‘Most improved player’, whilst Alyssa was given the ‘Coaches Award’.

Overall, the competition was an extremely enjoyable and very worthwhile competition for Giann and Alyssa.

Native Bee Incursion at Emmaus Campus

On Tuesday 22 October, the Terra Tomodachi students had a buzzing morning.

Clancy Lester, a Masters student at the School of Bioscience (University of Melbourne) and avid native bee educator, visited to teach the students more about the different types of native bees in Australia, the dangers they face, and how to build “bee hotels”.

• Australia has 2000+ native bee species, >95% are solitary (and don’t make honey)
• 70% nest in the ground in clay banks and firm sandy soils. 30% nest in pithy/hollow stems and holes of wood boring grubs
• 80% of the world’s flowering plants need pollinators to reproduce.
• 1 in 3 bites of food is because of pollinators (things like avocado, almonds, tomato

Some native bees prefer laying their eggs in hollows in branches and trees, while others lay their eggs in holes in the ground. The students used wood and plumbing pipe that Clancy repurposed into bee hotels as well as a mixture of clay and sand to build a hotel in a breeze block.

Year 11 Biology Zoo Trip

On Tuesday 29 October, our Year 11 Biology students attended the Melbourne Zoo. Students participated in an Education Workshop linked to their Unit 2 Biology Course work. Topics included collecting data in the Butterfly House, learning about the Southern Corroboree Frog Conservation and the adaptations of various other animals of their own choice.

A fantastic day out for our students.