December 1, 2014 Virtue of the Month: Charity

Administration

V. Tanzini - Principal

A. Tamburino - Secretary

J. Shain - Superintendent

M. Rizzo - Trustee

D. Goulet - CSAC Chairperson

T. Mehari - Head Caretaker

Fr. Damian Young-Sam-You

pastor St. Monica Church

(416) 483—1513

St. Monica

Catholic school

December 2014 Newsletter

& Calendar

On November 13, 2014 a cheque in the amount of $564.40 was made out to the Royal Canadian Legion—Fairbank Branch 75. We thank all students for donating to this year’s Poppy Fund—marking the 100th anniver-sary of the start of World War I. As a community, we are thankful for the unending commitment of our military personnel representing Canada globally, whether at war or during peace missions.

The chart below includes our TOP 10 prize winners for this year’s Chocolate Almond Fundraiser. These 11 stu-dents accounted for approx. 30% of all sales during our 3 week campaign. Our prize assembly took place on No-vember 7, 2014. Thanks to all for raising over $8000 this year.

School Population = 256

To see this publication, the TCDSB Monthly Update and other important school documents, please

visit our school website at: http://www.tcdsb.org/schools/stmonica/

Since 1916 416-393-5224

14 Broadway ave.

Toronto, Ontario M4P 1T4

Principal’s Message

TD Bank gr. 1 Book giveaway

Doors In The Air, written by David Weale, illustrated by Pierre Pratt

Place Name 5 Sadie Drake—SK

1 Ethan Serpa—gr.1 6 Elizabeth Bocsa—gr. 7

2 Jacob Vo—gr.3 7 Daniel Gergelj—gr. 7

3 Rachel Draper—gr. 6 8 Akeelah Anderson—gr. 2

4 Anya Stoute—gr. 6 9 Anthony Geletu—gr. 3

4 Ariana Acosta—gr. 4 10 Justin Goulet—gr. 1

Above: Ethan Serpa (first prize—ipod), Rachel Draper (third-movie pass), Jacob Vo (second prize-Pickle Barrel gift card). Be-low: Justin Goulet and Anthony Geletu showing off their basketball prizes.

Left: Winners of our stuffed animal pillows: Anya Stoute (fourth); Ariana Acosta (fourth); Liz Bocsa(sixth); Sadie Drake (fifth) and Dan-i e l Ge rge l j (seventh). Ak-eelah Anderson (8th) was absent

Left: Alessandra Esparza and Whitney Nguyen pictured at Cheltenham Badlands dur-ing the grade 7 physical geog-raphy field trip. On Nov. 6th, students also visited Devil’s Well near Rockwood, Crawford Lake Iroquoian Village and eventually hiked to Rattlesnake Point.

Volleyball Champions include: Natashia Cock-ett, Shannon Smithwick, Kianna Me-gino, Marina Santos, Isabel Marimon, Liz Bocsa, Mr. Della Pia (coach), Amalia Mari-mon, Rachel Drapper, Bianca Baduya, Court-ney Duran, Nicole Or-donez, Alecca Rimando, Carolyn Nguyen

On October 30 our senior girls volleyball team compet-ed at the annual Marshall McLuhan Invitational. By the end of the day—we estab-lished ourselves as a real contender by winning a gold medal. Despite good evi-dence of good volleyball skills, the team, under the leadership of Mr. Della Pia

continued to practice daily. On November 12, the team went into the finals compet-ing against St. Bonaventure. Trailing near the end of the first set (23-22), our team rallied to win the set (25-23) and the subsequent game (25-16). The girls brought home our second school pennant of 2014-15. Congratulations!

Intermediate Volleyball Champions

Registration Information 2015—see below

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Dear Parents/Guardians;

Kindergarten Registration will begin for all Elementary Schools on Thursday, January 8, 2015 at

10:00a.m. EST. Parents/guardians with children born in 2011 or earlier and who will be enrolling in Kindergarten, have the opportunity to apply on-line using the “Student On-line Admission and Registration” platform known as S.O.A.R. and found at the following link: http://soar.tcdsb.org

Parents will be able to complete an application for registration from the convenience of their own home, the office, a public library, or anywhere there is internet access, 24 hours a day. The on-line application also offers access to translations in different languages with built-in help functions and features. Alternately, families may choose to register in person at our school. We will begin to accept registrations at 10:00 am on January 8th.

As part of the registration process, school staff will meet with parents. These meetings may be scheduled on the electronic application or in person at the school. During the meeting, school staff will verify the original documentation required for reg-istration. This consists of a Baptismal Certificate, Birth Certificate and/or Passport, Immunization record, proof of residence and Application for Direction of School support. Applications to register children in grades other than Kindergarten can also be done on the online S.O.A.R. application. Please share this information with any parents/guardians with school aged chil-dren in the community.

As in previous years, an extensive promotional campaign will be launched throughout the City of Toronto, with paid adver-tisements in the local media, posters in public centers, through the board website and on vinyl banners for display on school property. For further information, please contact our school office at 416-393-5224. For general inquires or further infor-mation you may contact 416-222-8282 extension 5314 or visit our website at www.tcdsb.org

Below: Intermediate boy’s volleyball team in action on Nov. 10th at St. Bonaventure.

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416-393-5224

Left: Little Red Theatre performed “Nightingale” for our JK to gr. 6 stu-dents on Nov. 5th. Top-left: Pyramid builders Julian DiVittorio and Talullah DeLeon with Quantum Kidz’ M. Day. Above: Mr. T. Anton performing “Last Post” during our Remembrance Day Service and Mass on Nov. 11th. Top-Right: Camryn Martins and Zoe Diaz in attendance at TCDSB’s annual Safe Schools Symposium on Nov. 19th. Thanks also to D. Curtosi and L. Waithe for attending this worthwhile conference. Right: Primary students showing off their Lego creations com-pleted during the evening of Nov. 20th during our Lego Math Night. Students learned about the Egyptian number system and had an introduction to im-portant Egyptian architecture.

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