St Monica’s Primary School - Evatt eNewsletter

Dear St Monica’s families and friends,

I am always delighted to hear about, and share, the excellent achievements of the hardworking and resilient students here at St Monica’s Primary School. Next week you will receive your child’s Semester 1 report and I trust you will be able to celebrate your child’s successes, enthusiasm for and engagement with their learning. I also wish to express my sincere gratitude to the teaching and support staff for their unwavering support and guidance of your children. Together, with each of you, we have nurtured a positive partnership for learning. My hope is that we continue to encourage and support all students in their pursuit of excellence!

Math Olympiad and Math Explorer Challenge - Today I have been fortunate to supervise the students participating in their 2^nd Math Olympiad and Math Explorer Challenge. Their thirst for wanting to extend and challenge themselves in Mathematics is truly commendable. The questions are by no means easy, could you answer this Math problem in less than 5minutes?

Ryan, Lisa and Maggie share a locker. Ryan says that the locker code is a 2-digit number. Lisa says that the locker code is divisible by 9. Maggie says that the locker code has 9 factors. What is the locker code?

Absolute last chance to complete the Tell Them From Me, Partners in Learning Survey The survey closes tomorrow, 16 June following a one-week extension. Simply click on the link that was sent out via Compass Alert earlier this week. Your feedback is important to us and the information you provide will be used to maintain our commitment to working together in partnership, to further improve student learning and wellbeing at St Monica’s Primary School. The survey is anonymous and will take approximately 20 minutes to complete.

Baby News

Congratulations to the Lorenzi family - Lincoln - (1 White) on the arrival of his baby brother Carter, born last week.

It’s a boy…. Michael Cooper Foster! Mrs Foster, along with husband Jeremy and big brother Fred welcomed ‘Mickey’ into the world last Thursday 8 June. He is a very healthy baby boy and has a beautiful head full of red hair!!

Peace and blessings to all families,

Happy Birthday to the following students celebrating a Birthday this week -

Oliver C, Charlie D, Isabelle J, Milla F, Leo S, Christian M

Ante in Year 6 had a very special event on 28May when he received the Sacrament of Confirmation in St Joseph’s parish. I’m told it was a beautiful celebration and it’s always lovely to see our Archbishop in his special finery! Congratulations Ante.

RE Curriculum at St Monica’s

Prayer is explicitly taught, as well as experienced, at St Monica’s. Children are exposed to many varieties of prayer over their years at school and explicitly taught different prayers across their time in their Catholic school. Below is a table outlining the prayer experiences for each year level. I invite you to consider spending time in prayer with your children this coming week, accessing from their age appropriate prayers.

Religious Life of the School at St Monica’s

Whole School Prayer Time

Term Two Value Focus – Resilience

Thank you 3 Blue for your beautiful Whole School Prayer last Friday. What a lovely way to reflect on our focus value for this term, resilience through the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit. You gave us great examples and thoughts about how to bounce back when things don’t quite work as we hoped and use our footsteps as a guide.

Week 8 - Eucharist

Tomorrow Year 4 will lead the whole school in prayer. They will be specially focusing on Eucharist and the special celebration for many of the Year 4 students this weekend as they celebrate their First Holy Communion. You are all invited to join the whole school in prayer at the St Monica’s Church from 9.10am onwards.

First Holy Communion

We keep in our prayers these Year Four children as they prepare to receive Jesus this weekend for the first time in Holy Communion -

Sophie	Donato	Harriett	Lola
Lucas	Lucas	Zara	Mitchell
Eliana	Phoebe	Joseph	Milla
Elsie	Alec	Edward	Luciarna
Saskia	Isabella	Andreas	Ana
Niko	Nicholas	Ruby	Maddison
Lachlan	Nellie	Beau	Jack
Joshua	Imogen	Maxwell	Aya
Ryan

Sacrament of First Eucharist

This will be celebrated across the four Sunday Parish Masses this weekend

5.00pm - 17 June at St Monica’s Church – Evatt;

8.00am - 18 June at St Michael’s Church – Kaleen;

10.00am – 18 June at St Monica’s Church – Evatt; and

5.30pm – 18 June at St Michael’s Church – Kaleen.

Congratulations to the 58 candidates in our Parish celebrating the Sacrament. Please keep them in your prayers.

Home booklets

Home booklets should be returned to the school (with the last page ‘Parents’ Discernment of Readiness’ completed) by Thursday this week - the booklets will be signed and stamped with the ‘parish stamp’ and returned to the candidates at their First Eucharist celebration.

Sacrament of Confirmation will be celebrated on 5, 6 and 7 September 2023. Registrations will open on Monday 26 June 2023 via the parish Qkr! App. Please start to consider the 'Saint's Name' and 'Sponsor' as these are requirements on the registration form. The Sponsor should be a baptised Catholic and not a parent. The role of the Sponsor should be someone who has an influence in the child's life and can fill in the gaps where the parent is unable to.

Sacrament of Reconciliation will be celebrated in Term 1, 2024.

For further Information – please contact the Sacramental Program Coordinator at sc.belconnennorth@cg.org.au or check the parish website at www.cg.org.au/belconnennorth

This year through our St Monica's Stars we will emphasise the ways we live out

Respect, Resilience, Engagement and Growth

through a focus on

Myself - Academic

Others - Social

Our Surroundings - Community

so we come to know Jesus.

Class	Student	Focus
K Blue	Zoe J	Myself
K Blue	Ariana S	Myself
K Maroon	Emily P	Others
K Maroon	Harshabad S	Myself
1 Blue	Ava C	Others
1 Blue	Azalea S	Myself
1 Maroon	Ivy D	Myself
1 Maroon	Abigail P	Myself
1 White	Paige K	Myself
1 White	Ava R	Myself
2 Blue	Olivia A	Our Surroundings
2 Blue	Sam W	Myself
2 Maroon	Mia E	Myself
2 Maroon	Toby H	Myself
3 Blue	Adele M	Myself
3 Blue	Liam W	Myself
3 Maroon	Hamish C	Myself
3 Maroon	Angus M	Myself
3 White	Juliana D	Others
3 White	Jamie L	Myself
4 Blue	Nicholas M	Myself
4 Blue	Nellie R	Myself
4 White	Lola B	Others
4 White	Bailey D-C	Myself
5 Blue	Lachlan D	Myself
5 Blue	Elyse S	Myself
5 White	Charlie C	Myself
5 White	Cooper D	Myself
6 Blue	Olivia B	Myself
6 Blue	Katherene J	Myself
6 Maroon	Esther L	Myself
6 Maroon	Emma N	Myself
6 White	Aria G	Myself
6 White	Jake W	Myself

Star Awards for Week 9 will be given out at Assembly on Friday 23 June at 9.10am in the School Hall

ACT PSSA Cross Country

Congratulations to Blake R (3Maroon), Milla F (4 Blue) and Ater A (6 Maroon) who competed in ACT PSSA Cross Country this morning at Mt Stromlo.

Blake placed 18th, Ater placed 22nd and Milla placed 6th. Milla will now represent ACT at National Cross Country Championships. Well done Milla!

Next Thursday we welcome Lamont Book Fairs to St Monica's. This is a Melbourne-based company that will provide us with a different selection of books from previous book fairs. All sales at the book fair support the purchase of new books for the library collection. We have extended opening hours from 8am - 9am and 3.15pm - 5pm each day. The book fair starts on Thursday 22 June and goes through until Wednesday 28 June. We look forward to seeing you in the library getting some great holiday reads.

2023_Book_Fair_Poster.pdf

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NCCD_Information_for_Parents.pdf

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Over the past few weeks I have been concerned about the declining volunteer numbers in the canteen. I have put the call out to the community via COMPASS and have been excited to welcome many new volunteers. Thank you to all the following people, your time and efforts are appreciated - Sarah Clark, Tracy D'Ambrosio, Katarina Pilatic, Megan Rhind, Elisha Scholtes, Danielle Weber, Sam Gonzalez, Ling Fei, Sharon Friend, Kirra Thompson, Chris Regan, Jane Rabbets, Bek Stevenson, Angalea Turnbull, Sonia Connolly, Kim Todd, Hayley Thomas, Fiona Steinberg, Rachael Prior, Rach Pentes, Tim Porter and Katrina Ciampa.

I will now advertise volunteering vacancies via COMPASS, but you are free to sign up on the link below, for any time that you want to volunteer. Volunteer power keeps our prices low and keeps our community vibe alive. The jobs are easy and even half an hour of your time is very valuable. We do have vacancies for all day on Friday. All you need is a current WWVP card.

volunteersignup.org/4DWMQ

We try to keep waste to a minimum in canteen, we also like our students to receive their orders. If your child is sick you have a number of options. You can cancel the order on Qkr! (if it is prior to cut-off time of 8.45am) and you will have a credit to use in the future. You can send me an email in the morning - wendy.regan@cg.catholic.edu.au. I can then save the order for the next week. Also, if you have to pick up your child early, we can give them the order to go, just let the front office know your child has a lunch order.

If food is sent out to the classroom it will go to waste. I am not able to refund on a product that I have delivered.

Further to this, please let your child know that if they miss out on something in their lunch order to come and let me know. I want to ensure that every child gets the order that has been purchased for them. The canteen is very busy and sometimes we inadvertently miss or mix up products, we are always happy to fix this situation.