NEWSLETTER Term 3 Issue 5 August 11th 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,

On Monday we celebrate the Feast of the Assumption of Mary. This special

feast day is important in our Church calendar and we will be attending Mass at

9:15am. We encourage you to join us as we honour Mary our Mother.

On Monday we begin the celebrations for Book Week which will culminate in

a HUGE day on Friday. We encourage the children (and the staff) to come to

school in Fancy-Dress. It’s always a lot of fun and the Parade will be held in

the Senior Yard at 9:15am. Everyone is welcome to attend. Please see

advertisements in today’s newsletter about the other exciting things that will

happen on Friday 19th.

It’s actually going to be two exciting Fridays in a row, because the Friday after

Book Week is St. Monica’s Feast Day - on 26th August. We are still planning

for this day, so keep an eye out for the final list of events in next week’s

Newsletter.

My sincere congratulations to Julie Bibby, Jess Lothian and Jane Campbell

who organised a very successful Ladies Night last Friday. The details are all in

Ange Horton’s report, including the huge amount of money raised as a result

of this event. Well done one and all.

Well done to the Grade Ones who made their own Damper and

hand-made butter during the week. With the addition of a little

bit of store-bought jam, the children were grinning from ear to

ear as they consumed their olden-day snacks. Delicious!

Please note in today’s Newsletter I have included information

about the final two of our four Closure Days for 2016.

Regards,

Peter Moore

Principal

Assumption

of Our Lady

Let Your Light Shine No-one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all

in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and

Last Sunday Lachlan Larobina, Christian Russo, Max Talone, Xavier Vandrine, Ben

Maltman, Henry Carew and Alex Nguyen from Grade 3 played for Moonee Valley in the

Under 10 (Div 7) Grand Final against Pascoe Vale. Samuel Picton was also part of the team.

Unfortunately the boys came Runners up, but they had a fantastic season and for their first

year of playing football, it was great for them to make it into the Grand Final.

Congratulations boys!!

Term 4 School Closure Days:

Monday 3rd October

Monday 21st November

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

Bread versus Damper???

Have you ever thought about how long it takes to make bread rather than just buying a loaf from the

supermarket? As part of their learning comparing and contrasting the olden days to the current day, the

Year 1 students made ‘damper’ and ‘butter’.....from scratch! I was so impressed by the writing

experience that followed ….making connections in their learning!

Premiers Reading Challenge

Throughout the duration of the PRM, our school leaders have been reading

picture story books over the speaker for the whole school to enjoy! Maybe you

could make some recommendations to Mrs Bremner or the Year 6 SRC.

Homework!

Students in Year 3 have been taking responsibility for their own learning by

choosing their homework tasks from a matrix that combines Howard Gardners’

Multiple Intelligences and Bloom’s

Taxonomy! Emma is a keen dancer and loves

technology ...so she chose to make up a dance, video it

and email it to her teacher! Well done, Emma!

Community Service

During the week, we had two students from Ave Maria

demonstrating their ‘Faith in Action’ by volunteering

their time at our school. The students helped prepare

packs for the Year 3 students leading up to their Communion. Thankyou!

Patterns

The Foundation students have been caught here thinking about different

shapes, lines and patterns! What do you like to draw?

The Olympics!

Eating time has never been

so entertaining! This week

students were able to watch

some Olympic events while

enjoying their lunch! Which

Olympic story has been

your favourite?

ICAS

At assembly last week the

ICAS Science Awards

were presented. Congratu-

lations to all our partici-

pants. Pictured here are

Lachlan Monger and Myles

Quick, who both achieved

a High Distinction. This

places them in the top

1%. Wow! What an

achievement!

ST. MONICA’S PARENTS ASSOCIATION

Ladies Night

Last Friday night a large group of St Monica’s mums, past

and present gathered together for the traditional biennial

“Ladies Night”. As you can see from the photos all had a

great night out with friends old and new. A massive thank

you goes to the three organisers Julie Bibby, Jess Lothian

and Jane Campbell. Not only did Julie, Jess and Jane

ensure everyone had a great time, they managed to raise

over $6,500! Thanks particularly to the major sponsor

Frank Dowling Estate Agents in Essendon; we really

appreciate your support and involvement. Congratulations

to Grace Carew and Josie Russo who won the $1000 cash

prize!

St Monica’s vs St Vincent’s Footy Match

You’ve no doubt seen the notices imploring dads and teachers (we’re looking at you Mr Di Nuzzo!) to

get involved to help break the St Vincent’s 5-year winning streak. Thanks to Ben Hogan and Paul

Barlow, 2016 may be the year St Monica’s can regain some dignity with a win. Ben and Paul have rallied

the dads by organising regular training sessions, most recently last Sunday at Windy Hill where a

massive 33 dads turned up to train! Everyone is welcome to attend the match on Saturday 3rd September,

please feel free to contact Ben or Paul if you’d like to get involved. See photos below.

The next Parents Association meeting is Tuesday 6th September at 7:30. It’s a great way to keep informed

of what is happening and to have your say about things, we’d love to see you there.

Thanks,

Ange Horton & Cathy McNeill

President & Vice President Parents Association

Ladies Night

Student of the Week Certificates will be presented at assembly on Friday 9th September, at

3.00pm. Whole School Awards Assembly (Location: Senior Yard)

Lucas Bourke FK For his excellent reading, using all of his known

reading strategies and having a great discussion

about a book. Lola Palmer FK For her wonderful participation at our zoo excursion, building a wonderful

habitat for a zebra. Vincent De Rango FS For being such an enthusiastic member of Foundation S. Well done Vincent! Evie Campbell FS For her valued contribution during whole class discussions. Well done Evie! Oscar Mills FT For being an excellent Zoo Explorer and sharing his knowledge about

animals on our Zoo excursion. Well done Oscar! Allena Paulose FT For her wonderful recount about our trip to the Zoo. Keep up the great work

Allena! Alexandra Bastian 1B For creating an outstanding Character Profile for his favourite character

from ‘The Very Cranky Bear’. Lydia Farfalla 1C For completing her reading responses thoughtfully and in detail. Katerina Vassilopoulos 1S For confidently using adjectives in her writing to describe characters and for

sharing her thoughts and ideas with others in reading groups. Well done

Katerina! Oliver Pane 2C For trying his best in all his learning and a ‘can do’ attitude. Olivier Leone 2D For his consideration of others and for showing great improvement in all

areas of learning. Well done Olivier. Kieran Mathews 2T For being a wonderful student and trying his best every day! Donny Conidi 3B For his automatic recall of Multiplication facts and his positive attitude

towards problem solving. Xavier Malcolm 3M For working hard on Writing tasks. Alex Di Nuzzo 4D For thinking about the text and posing rich questions and for sharing his

extensive IT skills and knowledge with the class. Juliet Landa 4P For painting a most magnificent image of one of the ships of The First Fleet

for the class. Evelyn Kinahan 5G For her ability to present creative ideas to a group. Grace Sinnadurai 5H For her consistent effort in class discussions and encouraging in depth

thinking around our topics. Alice Hanger 6C For her enthusiasm and careful thought into her narrative poem. Celia Abbenante 6M For actively participating in group activities about energy on our excursion

to CERES.

ICAS Maths

The ICAS Maths competition will be held next Tuesday, 16th August, at a time to be decided by the class

teacher. This is our last competition for the year.

Wishing all the students in Year 3-6 who entered all the rest!

Janet Dobson

Key Dates

August 2016 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

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 District Athletics Trials

Buddy Mass 2D and 4P

Year 6 Parent’s Dinner

Friday 2nd Father’s Day Stall

Assembly hosted by 6B (Years 3 - 6)

Father’s Day BBQ 5.00pm

October 2016 Monday 3rd School Closure Day Monday 31st Report Writing Day - no students at school

November 2016 Tuesday 1st Melbourne Cup Day

Monday 21st School Closure Day

Tuckshop

Reminder - all lunches need to be ordered via QkR.

Week Beginning 8th August

Friday 12th Michelle Christian, Abbey Vandeloo

Week Beginning 15th August

Tuesday 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

Week Beginning 22nd August

Tuesday 23rd Melissa Humann, Elisa Scoglio, Julia Rudolph

Wednesday 24th Kellie Jeffery, Ann Stevens, Lisa Miller, Penny Seuren

Thursday 25th Rebecca Jones, Peta Goodear, Ange Horton

Friday 26th Maria Pricone, Skye Page, Serena Smith, Terri Ryan

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

contact the office.

UPDATES

Look at the number of books read by students at St. Monica’s for the Premiers Reading Challenge so far!

Can you answer the following questions?

From the chart above can you determine the number of books that have been read in total?

What % of this total number of books have been read by each year level?

These totals do not include the many books that have been read in classrooms and over the P.A by Year 6

children, while students eat their lunch. These titles and many more still need to be uploaded onto the

system.

Imagine the interesting vocabulary and amazing concepts that children would have encountered

while reading these books!

I wonder how many books will have been read by Friday 2nd September, 2016 when we finish the chal-

lenge at St Monica’s.

Happy reading!

Trish Bremner

Literacy Coordinator

Year Level Number of books

read

Year Level Number of books

read

Foundation 621 Year 4 423

Year 1 376 Year 5 178

Year 2 943 Year 6 156

Year 3 241

Last Monday at snack time, the year 3 and 4 book club was held. The book

club people did some independent reading of novels and then Mrs Bremner

read a poem from a book that she read when she was in year 3! Amy

Willoughby from 3M wrote about her experience at her first ever book club

and it is included below.

By the School Captain team.

(Hamish Quick, Jack

Mantello, Henry Steinke,

Hannah Lucas, Alanna

Haynes and Stephanie

Clarke)

My First Book Club

Hi, my name is Amy Willoughby and

I went to my first ever Book Club on

Monday. I brought my snack and the

book Matilda by Roald Dahl. To

begin with, we listened to Mrs

Bremner read a poem she loved when

she grew up. She found out that the

poem was sad. Next I read

Independently from Matilda where

Mrs Honey found out about Matilda’s

incredible knowledge.

By Amy Willoughby,

3M

Premiers Reading Challenge - St Monica’s Book Club

Year level Date Theme Where & When

Foundation 15th August BOOK WEEK

Dr Suess & Readers theatre

Hall

2pm to 2.30pm

Years 1 and 2 22nd August To be advised. Hall

2pm to 2.30pm

Years 3 to 6 29th August To be advised. Hall

2pm to 2.30pm

Due to the overwhelming number of children attending book club, the committee have

decided to revise the book club schedule. Please see below.

Looking forward to seeing you all!

From Stephanie Clarke, Alanna Haynes, Gianmarco Interlandi, Hannah Lucas, Jack Montello, Hamish

Quick and Henry Steinke and Mrs Bremner.

Welcome back to school everyone!

We are now in Term 3, and time is racing by! It feels like we've been back a week, but we are now actually

in week five! The students here at St Monica's are all progressing marvellously, and looking for perfor-

mance opportunities later this term. One such example is Angus Benson on Trombone and Sabrina Kirk on

Clarinet. These two are currently working very hard on duets, such as Jolly Old St. Nicholas. These two

will premiere very soon! Later in the semester we will be running free introductory lessons for Trumpet

and Trombone students.

If this interests you please email Amber at amber@polygongroup.com.au or call Musicorp on 1300 858

911.

All the best,

Amber

With Luke This week’s article we will be looking at the rivalries of the AFL. The AFL is a rough game and matches between

rivals tend to be full of exciting atmosphere. First thing we will be looking at the rivals from Victoria. Victoria has

the most teams playing in the AFL therefore there tends to be a lot of rivalry between the teams.

Collingwood are traditional rivals with everyone because every hates them, but the Collingwood rivalry we will be

taking a look at is between Collingwood and Carlton. These two clubs have been traditional rivals for decades.

They have both played in some fantastic Grand Finals. The best one was in 1970 when Collingwood were up by

44 points at half time and ended up losing. A terrific mark was taken by Alex Jesaulenko and 121,696 people

packed into the MCG to watch the two teams play a fantastic game of football.

The next Grand Final was the 1979 Grand Final. The reason why this Grand Final was special was because Wayne

Harmes from Carlton kicked along the boundary and managed to tap the ball back in

(even though the ball was out) into the path of Ken Sheldon who goaled. Carlton won

by 5 points. Playing at fullback for Carlton in that grand final was Geoff Southby,

grandfather of Ethan (Year 3) and Xavier Sharkey (Year 1).

Another rivalry is the Hawthorn Essendon rivalry. This rivalry has produced some

controversial matches. It started in 1983 when the two teams met in a Grand Final.

The Hawks were winners in the match winning by 87 point winners. Essendon

however won the 1984 Grand Final by 24 points and the 1985 Grand Final by 78

points. In 1988 Dermott Brereton ran through the Essendon ¾ time huddle which

caused a lot of controversy. In 2004 the two teams played in a line in the sand game

which Essendon went into as hot favourites and were considered a top 4 chance.

Hawthorn, who had played in 7 grand finals in a row between 1983-1989 and also

1991 and were victorious in 5 of those occasions were struggling at this stage. Greats

of the club had come out and said how bad Hawthorn were. The game had multiple fights and lots of suspensions

and was then known as the “line in the sand” game.

The next rivalry is another Hawthorn one which is Hawthorn and Geelong. This rivalry started at the end of the

2008 Grand Final when Geelong went in as premiership favourites and lost the game. The reason why it was so

big was because Paul Chapman said “We’ve said to ourselves if we ever let Hawthorn beat us again we will hurt

from that” Jeff Kennett said “What they don't have, I think, is the quality of some of our players; they don't have

the psychological drive we have. We've beaten Geelong when it matters”. Geelong and Hawthorn went on to play

in 11 fantastic encounters with 10 of them being less than 20 points, including a point after the siren, a goal after

the siren and a 30 point comeback.

Now we will look at a rivalry away from Victoria and it’s the Port Adelaide and Adelaide game. In South

Australian National Football league (SANFL) Port Adelaide won 36 premierships and Adelaide never had a

SANFL team. The two teams have played 40 times and Port have won 20 and Adelaide have one 19.

This week’s game I will be analysing the Hawthorn and North Melbourne game. Going on our theme of rivalries

the two teams have played 2 fierce encounters in the past few years. The first encounter was when North

Melbourne’s Drew Petrie accused Hawthorn’s Brian Lake of choking him. The Hawthorn player got a four week

suspension. The next one was a fiery encounter because Hawthorn’s captain Luke Hodge punched Andrew

Swallow and was suspended for three weeks and Hawthorn’s Jordan Lewis got two weeks for striking Todd

Goldstein to the head. These two teams were both powerful through the 1970’s and North played in 4 premierships

in a row with three of them being against Hawthorn and North winning one of them. The last time these two teams

met North Melbourne were celebrating their 1975 Grand Final reunion and North were seeking revenge on

Hawthorn. For North they just fell short losing by 5 points. Hawthorn will be looking to improve after their loss to

Melbourne last week and will be looking to keep top spot.

Senior Production

OCTOBER 25th

TUESDAY NIGHT

AT

THE CLOCK

TOWER CENTRE

Junior Production

NOVEMBER

16th - Wednesday

At 6.00pm at St. Monica’s

2016 BATTLE OF THE SAINTS

St Monica’s vs St Vincent’s

CALLING ALL: Grade 6 and 5 FOOTBALLERS

COACH: Vince Leone (Julius’ Dad), who Coached many of you at AUSKICK

GAME DAY: 3rd September

TRAINING: 9-10am Saturday 13th, 20th & 27th August and 4-5pm Sunday 14th, 21st & 28th August

TRAINING LOCATION: Walter St Reserve, Ascot Vale

RSVP: SMS/Text Vince confirming your attendance (ph. 0421 054 140)

OSHClub News Before School / After School Care Program

Next Week’s Activities…

Program Update

Dear parents and families,

Another great week of activities planned at OSHClub. Join us for yummy breakfast fruit skewers,

try your hand at making a Yarn Bowl, and try your paper folding skills in our paper plane compe-

tition.

I can’t wait to see you all dressed up for Book Week on Friday!

–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

- Paper Planes

- Basketball

- Superhero

Craft

- Detective game

- Fruit Skewers

- Silent ball

- Craft Stick

Snow Flakes

- Octopus

- Octopus Craft

- 4 Corners

After Care Activities

- Paper Rain-

bows

- Footy

- Bubble Wrap

Painting

- Soccer

- Yarn Bowls

- Fruit Salad

Game

- Mini Book

Making

- Gaga Ball

- Paper Plate

Weaving

- Skipping

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/

Dates For the Calender August 2016

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

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

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

5 6

Athletics

Parent’s Associa-

tion Meeting

7:30pm

7

Gateways

Yr 5 Incursion

Year 2 Parent’s

Function

8

Buddy Mass 3L

& 5G

9

Yr 3 Parent’s

Dinner

Whole School

Assembly

10

Yr 3 receive

communion

medals

Year 1 Parent’s

Function

11

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.