St Monica's College

Infobox Secondary school
name = St Monica's College
patron saint= Saint Monica

motto = "Pray and Persevere"
established = 1964
type = Catholic College
affiliations = Roman Catholic Church,
principal = Mr. Brian Hanley
enrolment = 1,900+
grades = Years 7-12
colours = Blue and Gold
campus = Dalton Road Campus, Epping, Davisson Street Campus, Epping, Ostia Country Campus, Strath Creek
city = Melbourne
state = Victoria
country = Australia
website = [http://www.stmonicas-epping.com/]

St Monica's College is a Catholic co-educational high school located in the northern suburb of Epping Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, with over 1,900 students. The college has enough students that it warrants two campuses for students: one Junior (Year 7-9) on Dalton Road, and one Senior on Davisson Street (Years 10-12). Plus one campus in Ostia for extra curricular activities and pastoral care, such as the Junior Writers Retreat (extra curricular activity) and reflection day (Pastoral care)

The school celebrates St Monica's feast day on August 25, which is known as "St Monica's Day". On this day, a mass and Fête are held in her honour. Several Buildings have names related to St Monica or her son, St Augustine or the Good Samaritain Sisters who founded the school as an all girls school in 1964.

The school has two libraries, the Pamela Coyne library, on the Junior campus, it formerly had no name (except for it being called the D.R.C library, D.R.C stands for Dalton Road Campus, and D.S.C for Davisson Street Campus) until it was named in Pamela Coyne's honour, because of her long and distinguished service to the college as a teacher. The Senior Campus' library is called the Quaine library, it also houses the ERC which has the school's DVDs and Videos and some books that are apart of the school curriculum. It has a variety of different sports ranging from AFL down to volleyball, also not to mention the great facilities it has.

St Monica's College is a Regional Catholic and mainly serves surrounding areas of: St Peter's Primary, Epping St Clare's Primary, West Thomastown St Luke's Primary, Lalor Holy Name Primary, East Preston St Stephen's Primary, East Reservoir St Francis of Assisi Primary, Mill Park.

College Song "Together in Freedom and care"

:1. We come from many places,:and sing in to one voice,:the heart of our community,:for all to rejoice:CHORUS::For we are St. Monica's,:we pray and persevere,:and step ahead together:in freedom and care

:2. Our past a road of honour,:paved in blue and gold.:with strength, courage and dignity,:we live through our deeds:CHORUS:

:3. Enlightened by the Spirit,:our future is clear,:to fill the world around us,:with peace and harmony:CHORUS:

::(Mark Clement Pollard 2002)

Houses

St. Monican houses are named after important Aboriginal elements. Students are assigned a house when enrolled and stay in the house for the duration of their school enrollment. Siblings studying concurrently at the same time are places in the same house.

Houses are used in sporting events and thats about it, other college events that have all-school involvement, including competitions such as the 'Pakistan Appeal' which raises money to help a school in northern Pakistan.

=Principals=:1965 - 1966 Sr. Patricia Thame S.G.S :1967 - 1970 Sr. Mary Duffy S.G.S:1971 Sr. M. Laserian Crowe S.G.S:1972 - 1976 Sr. Helen Lombard S.G.S :1976 - 1985 Sr. Therese Quinn S.G.S:1985 - 1990 Sr. Harriet Gleeson S.G.S:1991- Mr. Brian Hanley

College Productions

St. Monica's College is heavily involved in performing arts. The college has produced many different productions and plays. Since 1971, the college has produced an annual musical. In 1984, the last musical of the time was produced and the college began to only perform straight theatre plays. In 2005, the college decided to begin producing musicals again. The St. Monica's College musical is a very big event in the community and is usually seen by around 2,000 people. They have a united cast and crew of around 200 students from across Year 7- 12.The musicals performed so far are as follows:

:1975 - "The King and I":1976 - "The Sound of Music":1977 - "Pajama Game":1978 - "My World, My Aunt and Me" (Original musical, written by Terrence Strokes):1979 - "The Hobbit - A Musical":1980 - " Oklahoma":1981 - "My Fair Lady":1982 - "Kismet":1983 - " Annie Get Your Gun":1984 - "Snoopy

:1985-2004 - Straight theatre plays performed annually (usually split into a separate junior and senior play.}

:2005 - "The Wiz":2006 - "Bye Bye Birdie":2007 - "Annie":2008 - "Grease"

ister Schools

St Monica's College has one sister school in Japan: Takada Junior and Senior High School in Mie. Takada students visit every March and St. Monican students every September on the last weeks of each month.

Annual College Themes

:1991- Pride:1992- Hope:1993- Perseverance :1994- Building The Kingdom:1995- With a Merciful Heart:1996- Justice:1997- One in the Spirit:1998- Wisdom:1999- Australia, Land of the Southern Cross:2000- Celebration:2001- On Eagle's Wing:2002- Dreaming:2003- God's Masterpieces:2004- Sharing and Shaping our Story:2005- Called by Name:2006- Courage:2007- Oil and Wine: Healing and Caring:2008- Peace & Harmony

Languages Other Than English(L.O.T.E)(Subject)

There are five languages that can be learnt at St. Monica's. The languages that can be studied are (in order of students studying):

Italian

French

Spanish

Japanese

Greek

=References= [http://www.stmonicas-epping.com/ St. Monica's College Website]