NEWSLETTER Term 3 Issue 4 August 4th 2016

St. Monica’s Primary School 20 Robinson Street Moonee Ponds 3039

Phone (03) 9375 1132 www.stmonicasmp.catholic.edu.au

Parish Priest: Rev. Fr. Anthony Feeney Principal: Mr. Peter Moore

Parish Office: Phone 9370 5035

Mass Times: Saturday 6:30pm (Vigil), Sunday 8:00am, 9:15am in Italian, 10:30am and 5:30pm

OSHP Number 0412 616 491

Faith

Hope

Love

Dear Children, Parents and Caregivers,

Today I include an up-to-date photo of progress in the Senior Building Project. It is coming along

beautifully. Within the classroom spaces, new joinery is being added (very sleek—black with birch

highlights) and the highlight windows facing east are going in as I type. They look wonderful. This is

going to be a very inspiring learning environment.

The photo below gives you some idea of progress on the ceiling in the shared space. Five giant

skylights will provide light to this massive space. The skylights will be viewed through pebble

frames of varying sizes—and dotted throughout the ceiling will be an additional sixteen pebbles that

will be lit by LED inserts. It’s going to be spectacular.

All being well, we hope to gain the ‘keys’ to this space in mid to late November, so the current Grade

Sixes should experience at least a few weeks of this new environment. That is the plan, so keep your

fingers crossed!

Peter Moore

Principal

Reminder: Whole school assembly tomorrow 3.00pm

Teachers who love teaching … teach students to love learning! Here are some examples of passionate ‘teaching and learning' at St Monica's this week!

100!

The Foundation students celebrated 100

Days of School by…….you guessed it

by dressing like they were 100 years

old! Can you recognise the staff and any

of the students?

New

Song!

I always love hearing the choir practice during lunchtime from my

office, but this week I heard some rather impressive singing during

class time! On investigation, I stumbled across the Year 4 music classes

….very enthusiastically learning a new song ……”l’ve been

everywhere”!

Shapes

These Year 1 students have been exploring

Shapes in Maths so they were captured here

using the Geoboard App on the iPad to draw a

range of 2D shapes and discuss their features.

Awesome!

Super Senses!

The Foundation students have been learning about the 5 senses!!!! Look

carefully at this picture …...what do you think is in the container

….which senses are they utilising? Could you put them in order...do

you think touch or sight is more relevant to determining the substance?

Initiative

Remember a previous article on ‘arrays’. It was great to see some

students taking initiative to make their own book of arrays found

around the school! Well done, Phong!

Student of the Week Certificates will be presented at assembly on Friday 5th August, at 3.00pm

Whole School Awards Assembly (Location: Senior Yard)

Eric Giaquinta FK For his wonderful class presentation about his Beetle,

giving a fantastic insight on the needs of living things.

Amy Catania FK For always being a respectful member of Foundation K

and for being a dedicated learner. Well done Amy!

Ai-Linh Vu FS For always working hard in class and following class routines confidently.

Well done Ai-Linh!

Beau Grogan FS For applying himself so well during reading group tasks. Keep up the great work!

Nina Ioannidis FT For her improvement in her writing and trying her best to write her letters

sitting on the line. Keep up the great work Nina!

Samuel Sheldrick FT For writing a fabulous description about his snake that escaped from the zoo! Well

done Samuel!

Ava Toscano 1B For writing a well-sequenced and detailed recount about our excursion to

‘Yarrabee Yesterday’s World’.

Finn Daley 1S For reading fluently and confidently in a small reading group and for

discussing how characters feel in the text. Super job Finn!

Lucas Makdesi 2C For putting 100% effort into all learning tasks and getting things finished on

time.

Annabel Akers 2D For her fantastic contributions in our study of Queen's Park. Well done Annabel.

Marcus Smith 2T For always putting his best effort into everything he does and for being kind

and considerate to others.

Jed Daley 3B For the details and passion he brings to Art lessons and for the wonderful

pieces of Art work he creates. Congratulations Jed!

Thomas Hulls 3L For his respectful behaviour and helpful disposition. Well done!

Amy Willoughby 3M For her insightful questions and thoughtful responses during class discussions.

Charlotte Farrugia 4D For outstanding contributions in guided reading groups, for describing facts

opinions and for expressing wonderings about the text.

Meg Carmichael 4P For the most expressive and engaging way she shared her favourite picture story

book with the class.

Sienna Blackmore 4T For reading loudly and clearly at class mass. Well done, Sienna!

Daniel Vendramini 5G For showing initiative in his work and actions.

Arianna Distefano 5H For her ongoing persistence and effort in the classroom. Well done Arianna!

Liam Tsiounis 5M For his willingness to cooperate and share his technical knowledge. Well done

Liam!

Matthew Rodgers 6B For his active participation in reading groups and for his continued efforts to

ensure he produces quality work!

Ruby Parkinson 6C For her great efforts with questioning during Reading and with our work in ‘Time’

during Maths.

Key Dates

August 2016 Friday 5th Whole School Assembly 3.00pm

ICAS Science Results to be Presented at Assembly

Ladies Cocktail Night

Wednesday 10th Parish Education Board Meeting 7.00pm

Thursday 11th Class Mass 5G

Friday 12th Assembly Hosted by FT

Saturday 13th Foundation Parent’s Function (Dinner)

Monday 15th Feast of the Assumption - Whole School Mass 9.15am

Book Week Begins

Tuesday 16th ICAS Maths

Thursday 18th Eucharist Workshop

Class Mass (Foundation T)

Friday 19th Book Parade

Assembly hosted by 3M (Years 3 - 6)

Saturday &

Sunday 20-21st Year 3 to receive Our Father at weekend masses

Tuesday 23rd Parent’s Association Meeting 7:30pm

Thursday 25th District Athletics Trials (TBC)

Class Mass Foundation S

Friday 26th Assembly 2C

St Monica’s Mass

Saturday 28th Foundation Family Mass

September 2016 Thursday 1st Year 6 Parent’s Dinner

Tuckshop

Reminder - all lunches need to be ordered via QkR.

Week Beginning 1st August

Friday 5th Julie Wibrow, Kim Murphy

Week Beginning 8th August

Tuesday 9th Michelle Thomason, Jane Henderson, Sonia Vendramini

Wednesday 10th Jodi Kukuljan, Fiona Grogan, Domina Carchedi

Thursday 11th Michelle Wing, Trish Baxter, Kylie Stevens (April onwards)

Friday 12th Julie Durling-Landa, Michelle Christian, Annmaree Carmichael, Abbey Vandeloo

Week Beginning 15th August

uesday 16th Gianna Willoughby, Gianna Ripa, Tania Lewis, Eva/John Karagiannis

Wednesday 17th Nikki Liddell, Sue Harding

Thursday 18th Mikhaela Delahunty, Phoebe DeMaria, Felicity Jordan, Emma O’Connell

Friday 19th Jaklina Visalli, Megan Gray, Kerrie Gustincich

If you are unable to work on your rostered day would you please arrange a swap. Alternatively please

contact the office.

With Luke This week I will be looking at the possible awards players can win at the end of

the year. We are getting to the end of the season and some awards will be start-

ing. We all know about the Brownlow, and just to refresh your memory at the

end of each game the umpires vote in a 3,2,1 system. If a player has been sus-

pended they cannot win this award. Each club also has a best and fairest. The

award is named after a legend of the club for example the GWS best and fairest is

called the Kevin Sheedy award after their very first coach who helped establish

GWS. Another award is the Coleman Medal which is awarded to the player who

kicks the most goals in the season. This award is named after the legendary John

Coleman who was a terrific mark of the football. Another award is called the

Norm Smith Medal. This is awarded to the player who has the best game in the Grand

Final. This award is named after the great player and coach Norm Smith. Norm Smith

won 4 premierships as player and 6 as a coach. The next award is the Jock McHale

Medal which is awarded to the coach that wins the Grand Final. This award is named

after the sensation coach Jock McHale who won 2 premierships as a player and 7 as a

coach. The next award is the All Australian team. This is the best 22 players in the

whole AFL put in a team according to the positions they play. The next award is the

Leigh Mathews award which the AFL Players’ Association (which is sort of like the

Parents’ Association) believe is the most valuable player (MVP). This award is named

after the great Leigh Mathews who won 4 premierships as a player and 4 premierships

as a coach. Another award is the AFL Coaches’ Association award. This is when the

coaches vote on the best player in the game and they tally up the votes to see who

wins. Another award is the Allan Jeans senior coach award. All coaches vote on a

3,2,1 basis at the end of the year for the best coach. The award is named after Allan

Jeanes who won St Kilda’s only premiership as a senior coach and won three premier-

ships as Hawthorn coach. The weird thing about this award is despite winning four

premierships Alastair Clarkson has never won this award, imagine how good Haw-

thorn would be if they had a good coach. Another award is the Ron Evans medal. This

is awarded to the best young player of the season. There are some rules to this award.

Each round at the end of the season they choose who was the best young player of the

round, for example this week it was Darcy Moore from Collingwood. The player has

to be under the age of 21 to be eligible for this award. Ron Evans played for Essendon

and was president of the AFL from 1998-2007 and also broke the most goals in a sea-

son record for our local league the EDFL (the Essendon District Football League).

This week’s game I will be discussing the West Coast / Fremantle Derby. Some great players have

played in the games such as John Worsfold (the Essendon coach) Chris Judd, Ben Cousins, Matthew

Pavlich and Nat Fyfe. Fremantle have been struggling this year and are currently sitting 16th. This week

however they might be boosted by the return of their big man Aaron Sandilands. West Coast have been

struggling of late and will be looking to keep their top 4 hopes alive with a win against their arch rivals.

The Western Australian Derby has been going since 1995 with West Coast winning 23 of them and Fre-

mantle winning 20 of them. West Coast won the first 9 of these meetings. Fremantle have won the last

20 out of 34 so when the struggling Dockers came into the completion they were the easy beats of the

competition but Freo have pulled it back they last few years. In these games the two teams show no mer-

cy to each other like last time when West Coast Chris Mastern with suspended for two weeks and also

Alex Silvagni got suspended for 4 weeks for striking.

ICAS Science Results Our first wait is over and the ICAS Science results have arrived!

These certificates will be distributed at the Whole School Assembly on

Friday, August 5th.

Forty seven students from Years 2-6 took part.

Two High Distinction certificates were achieved.

Year 4 Lachlan Monger & Myles Quick

Eight Distinction certificates were achieved.

Year 2 Emily McCleave & Audrey Ream

Year 4 Anthony Mathews & Noah Storace

Year 5 Erica Conidi

Year 6 Ruby Cullen, Alanna Haynes, Hamish Quick

Sixteen Credit certificates were achieved.

Year 2 David Jovic, Alexandra Kelly

Year 3 Donato Conidi, Xavier Malcolm

Year 4 Patrick Dent,

Year 5 Angus Benson, Amy Gaylor, Charles Saunders, Ai-My Vu

Year 6 Julia Brock, Olivia Eaton, Alice Hanger, Emma McEniery,

Quinton Nguyen, Alyssa Pesavento, Eloise Sexton

Once again, the above certificates will be presented at our Whole School Assembly on

Friday, 5th August.

Two Merits and nineteen Participation certificates were also achieved. Congratulations to

all students as you all tried your best.

Janet Dobson

The Day My Ball Popped In Class!

Well, I suppose even your favourite netball is not meant to last forever. I had my last chance of playing

with my favourite netball a lunchtime yesterday, as by the end of lunch it had its bladder bursting out of

one of the split seams. On returning to class, I placed it in my bag locker and didn’t give it another

thought, although my friends were wanting me to burst it.

Within a few minutes of being in class, the whole of the Year 4 area became silent after hearing an enor-

mous BANG! Had a pin been dropped, it would have been heard due to the complete silence that swept

across our classrooms and shared learning area.

Mrs Tulloch thought that one of the computers was going to blow up. Miss Pilatti and Miss Dobson

thought it was an electrical fault. But, the mystery was soon solved when we realised that the ball out in

my locker had finally POPPED with one mighty BIG BANG! Once we worked out the cause, we were

RELIEVED!

By Madeleine Moody and Meg Lucas 4P

Premiers Reading Challenge - St Monica’s Book

Club

Reminder to the Grade 3 and 4 children to bring along a pillow or cushion and book

on Monday for the St Monica’s Bookclub.

Year level Date Theme Where & When

3-4 1st August BYO Pillow or cushion and a

book

Hall

2pm to 2.30pm

5-6 8th August BYO Pillow or cushion and a

book

Hall

2pm to 2.30pm

F-2 15th August To be advised. Hall

2pm to 2.30pm

3-4 22nd August To be advised. Hall

2pm to 2.30pm

Year 7 2018 Academic Scholarships

St Columba’s College is offering Academic Scholarships for prospective Year 7 2018 students. Details and

online registration are available on the College website at

www.columba.vic.edu.au

Registration closing date 26 August 2016.

Testing Date Saturday 10 September 2016.

Year 7 2018 St Columba’s College

Application for Enrolment

An Application for Enrolment Form can be downloaded from the College website at

www.columba.vic.edu.au

Applications for Year 7 2018 close on Friday

16 September 2016. For enrolment enquir ies call 9337 5311.

Calling all Trumpet & Trombone Enthusiasts!

The Instrumental Music program is having an exciting term as students focus on learning some new pieces. We would love to

have some Trumpet and Trombone students involved, to enable us to establish a school band. We are currently offering 2x

complimentary lessons for any interested students wanting to learn Trumpet or Trombone. To register for these complimen-

tary lessons, please call Amber on 0422 389 311 or emailamber@polygongroup.com.au

OSHClub News Before School / After School Care Program

Next Week’s Activities…

Program Update

Dear parents and families,

This week at OSHClub we are celebrating the Rio Olympics! Join us as we create our own

Olympic Medals out of salt dough, do some Olympic Rings painting, design our own Olympic mas-

cot and bake some yummy Olympic Ring cookies.

–Jyoti

***Important Reminder***: Please remember to book in for Before and/or After School Care if

you know in advance. It helps us to ensure we have enough staff rostered on, and also for

catering purposes.

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YOU CAN GET YOUR KIDS TENNIS LESSONS DONE WHILST THEY ARE AT AFTER-

CARE!

ST. Monica’s Tennis Club

Contact – Steve Riley – Club Professional

0403 433 750 or steve@rileytennis.com.au

BOOK IN FOR A FREE HOTSHOTS TENNIS LESSON Just inform your OSHClub Co-ordinator

about your tennis lesson (day & time)

OSHCLUB DROPS OFF AND PICKS UP KIDS FOR THEIR TENNIS LESSONS!!!

(Children must be booked into After Care session to be dropped off and picked up.)

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Before Care Activities

- Fireworks

over Rio

- Musical

Freeze

- Tissue Paper

Flowers

- 4 Corners

- Paper Plate

Carnival Masks

- AFL Footy

- Olympic

Torch Craft

- Olympic

Torch Relay

- Olympic Laurel

Wreath

- Silent Ball

After Care Activities

- Salt Dough

Medals

- Soccer

- Olympic Rings

Painting

- Basketball

- Design your

own Mascot

- Tennis

- Build an

Olympic Stadi-

um

- Octopus

- Olympic Rings

Cookies

- Gaga Ball

Parent Information

OSHC program phone: 0412 616 491

Coordinator: Jyoti

Assistants: Leonie, Judy, Ceyda, Shannon

OSHClub Head Office: 03 85649000

All families must be enrolled to attend the program, remember this is Free!! Please create an account online at www.oshclub.com.au all bookings and cancella-tions can also be managed via your online account. For on the day bookings please

contact the Coordinator direct at the program.

Under 11 Netball players required – Spring Parkville Competition

The Essendon Netball Club is seeking under 11 players for the Saturday morning competition this Spring season. This would suit players looking to further develop their skills outside of the Winter Competition . The Essendon Netball Club aims to provide high quality coaching in a fun and inclusive environment. U 11 Matches are played at the State Netball Hockey Centre (Parkville) and training takes place at the Aberfeldie Primary School courts in Essen-

don Wednesday 4.15pm

If you are interested in playing, please Register or Contact Us, through the website

http://www.essendonnetballclub.com.au/

ANNUAL ST MONICA’S DADS FOOTY MATCH

VS

ST VINCENT’S - STRATHMORE

WHERE: LEBANON RESERVE, STRATHMORE

WHEN: SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 3

****PLAYERS NEEDED. ****

****NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. ****

TO QUALIFY: BE AN EXISTING ST MONICAS PARENT OR TEACHER (YOU

KNOW WHO YOU ARE)

WE ARE CURRENTLY ON A FIVE YEAR LOSING STREAK AND ARE KEEN TO

CHANGE THAT. BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP !!!!!

CONTACT BEN HOGAN (0402 919523) or PAUL BARLOW (0410 338716) IF YOU

ARE INTERESTED.

Dates For the Calender August 2016

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

5 Whole

School

Assembly

Ladies Night

6 7 1 2

ICAS English

Parents’

Association

Meeting

3 4 Class Mass

Foundation K

8 9 10

Parish

Education

Board Meeting

11

Class Mass

5G

12

Assembly

hosted by

Foundation T

13

Foundation

Parent’s

Function

(Dinner)

14

15

Book Week

Begins!

Feat of

Assumption Mass

16

ICAS Maths

17 18

Eucharist

Workshop

Class Mass

Foundation T

19 Book Parade

Assembly

Hosted by 3M

20

Year 3 receives

Father at

Weekend Mass

21

Year 3 receives

Father at

Weekend Mass

22 23

Parent’s

Association

Meeting 7:30pm

24 25

District

Athletics Trials

(TBC)

Class Mass

Foundation S

26

Assembly 2C

St Monica’s

Mass

27 28

Foundation

Family

Mass

29 30 31

Year 5 ‘Night

at the

Museum’’

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

1

District Athletics

Trials

Buddy Mass 2D

& 4P

2 3 4

Fathers

Day

September 2016

St Monica’s Sportsman’s Night -

Seeking Auction & Raffle Prizes

Are you or someone you know able to donate a

prize for this year’s Sportsman’s Night on 7th

October? Signed football jumpers, holidays, gift

vouchers, racing, football and golf tickets are

just some of the items auctioned or raffled at

our last event.

No item is too big or too small! Everything

raised from the sale of these items goes towards

the school.

If you think you can help out, please get in

touch with Luke Mahoney (0412 119 320) or

Gerry Carew (0439 636 471).

More details on the night to be announced soon.

Many thanks to our wonderful Parent Class Representatives who have been busy planning Class & Year level Social Events for the remainder of the year.

Foundation

Saturday 13th August - Foundation Parent’s Function (Dinner)

Sunday 13th November - Foundation Family Picnic

Friday 25th November - Foundation Parent’s EoY Function

Year One

Saturday 10th September - Year 1 Parent’s Function (Ladies @ the Races)

Wednesday 21st September - 1S Holiday Activity (Zoo)

Friday 18th November - Year 1 Parent’s EoY Function

Year Two

Friday 29th July - Year 2 Parent’s Coffee Catch-up (Morning)

Wednesday 7th September - Year 2 Parent’s Function (Dinner)

Friday 7th October - Year 2 Parent’s Function (Lunch)

Saturday 12th November - Year 2 Parent’s EoY Function

Year Three

Friday 9th September - Year 3 Parent’s Function (Dinner)

Year Four

Sunday 27th November - Year 4 Parent’s EoY Function

Year Five

Thursday 15th September - Year 5 Parent’s Function

Thursday 8th December - Year 5 Parent’s EoY Function

Year Six

Thursday 1st September - Year 6 Parent’s Function (Dinner)

Saturday 3rd

December - Year 6 Parent’s EoY Function

Invitations and venue details will be sent out prior to each event!