February 2, 2015 Virtue of the Month: Love

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

February 2015 Newsletter

& Calendar

In the January newsletter, it was mentioned that student raised funds (through the ME to WE team) were to be sent to needy farmers in Africa. After careful examination of “needs”, our team has decided to send our donation to the farmers and people of Haiti. Please read details below, under “ME to WE Update”. Thank you to our entire community for your continued support! During this month, we will continue with our JK registration. Please complete all aspects of this process, starting with the SOAR software located on the Board web site. Please call the school if you have questions with the required steps. In addition, last week, a short family survey was sent home to confirm whether your child(ren) will be returning to St. Monica for September 2015. Please return the survey to the school, even if your child(ren) are planning to attend. Thank you.

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

ME to WE Update

Left: Artwork by: Ohara Reyes and Annjelo Laride (Ms. Seminara’s gr. 4 class).

Tech Update

Through the combined resources of TCDSB, school block funds and CSAC, our students received new devices for school use. A total of 25 iPad minis (in Nov.) and 28 HP laptops (arrived in Jan.) are now in circulation for student use at St. Monica.

Great Prizes (eg. Leafs, Rock tickets, Skyzone, Cineplex, Ripley’s, and many more ! )

Bring in your collec-tion envelopes (Feb. 4, Feb. 12, and Feb. 18) for a chance at win-ning a random prize.

Feb. 12

January Events

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Dental Screening Results

Number of children screened= 248

Number of children with dental caries= 23 Public dental staff will now follow up with those children indicated as having dental caries and/or poor oral hygiene.

Visit our school website for this Psychology report

Above: Thanks to Ms. Berry for or-ganizing guest presenters and the opportunity for our students to en-gage in computer programming through Hatch Canada. Ms. Clifford’s gr. 5s are shown working on their new computer tasks.

Below: Photo of Junior Boys’ Volley-ball team. After a long practice sea-son (since Nov. 24); the boys showed great sportsmanship, ending in 4th place at their tournament held on January, 27th.

Left: Under the wise direction of Ms. Ferrer and Ms. Whalley, our Junior Girls’ Volleyball team ended their season as FINAL-ISTS in tournament play at St. Bonaven-ture. The girls end-ed losing a tie-b reake r 15 -10 , against the home team.

Left: Neil Sto. Domingo, Mi-chael Gagarao and Landen Silk are poised to receive a serve from the ultimate tournament winners, Precious Blood C.S. Thanks to all the parents who came out during the day to support our players and coach.

Right: Big Kids Entertain-ment amazed our students during their performance of “Cinderella’s Frog Prince”. The play, which took place on Jan. 16th, teaches chil-dren how to embrace equal-ity and how to celebrate diversity. All of our stu-dents from JK through to grade 8 had the opportuni-ty to experience this event.

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