St Monica's Primary North Parramatta Newsletter

Dear Parents and Carers,

On behalf of the staff at St Monica’s, we wish all of our students and families a joyous and holy Christmas.  We extend our sincere thanks and gratitude to our parent community for all your support throughout 2020 and for your generous gifts and well wishes.  Have a safe holiday break and we look forward to seeing you next year.

With Christmas blessings,

Lisa Howell
Principal

Please remember the following as you prepare for the new school year:

All students are expected to wear the St Monica’s uniform with pride throughout the year.  This includes wearing the correct hat, socks and shoes.  This helps to keep students focused on their learning whilst also maintaining a consistent atmosphere across the school.

 Some important reminders:

· School shoes are black leather lace ups/Velcro/buckle.

· Sport shoes are predominantly white for sport with white laces.

· No slip on “Raben” type shoes or coloured joggers, runners or basketball boots are to be worn.

HAIRSTYLES

Parents are reminded to please follow the guidelines for haircuts.  Please keep extreme styles to the school holidays so that all children return in 2021 with styles adhering with the school policy.  Please see the guidelines as per the Parent Handbook.

Farewell and thank you to the families leaving St Monica’s this year.  Your help and continuous support over the years whether it was assisting at excursions or carnivals, supporting events, attending POSMs meetings or even kind words of encouragement were greatly appreciated.  

Thank you to the following families who have been associated with St Monica’s for many years, as their youngest child leaves Year 6.

Assaf, Haddad, Knight, Munda Cruz, Nassif, Smith, Stoker, Toman, Bhattachan, Foroutan, Gunawardena, Keranis, Meldrum, Naeme and North.

Also leaving St Monica's this year are Lukas Lozancic Babic, Nitya Mallela, Jaylen Brohier, Tahlia Brohier, Elyssa Ekert, Jonathan Payne, Mugilmaran Manimaran, Madhumalar Manimaran and Rafaella Santos.

We wish you all the very best for the future and thank you for being a part of St Monica's.

Students have had another wonderful year of borrowing from the library and we look forward to another great year of reading and many exciting events in 2021!

A BIG thank you to all the library monitors who have helped this year - new monitors will be chosen in Term 1 next year.

CONGRATULATIONS to our Term 4 ‘Bookworm of the Term’ 

ES1 - Jonathan Hekeik

Year 1 - Archie Levins

Year 2 - Madalena Sarantakos

Year 3 - Juo Choi

Year 4 - Olivia Hekeik

Year 5 - Tiara Arredondo

Year 6 - Ashleigh North

These are the students who borrowed the most books in their class during term 4

Congratulations to the following students who received awards at the
End of Year Awards Ceremony.

Year 6 Mercy Award -  Samuel Nassif

Active Citizenship Award -  Ashleigh North

During Week 9, Stage 2 ran a fundraiser as part of their religion learning cycle ‘Why are people hungry in a world full of plenty?' "For I was hungry, and you gave me food, I was thirsty, and you gave me drink" Matthew 25: 35. 

Stage 2 ran a guessing competition where students could guess how many lollies were in a jar. The students showed their charity by giving up their lunch times to raise money for St Vincent De Paul. 

Lottie Stewart and Cadence Metierre guessed 56 lollies which was the closest, without going over. The girls split the lollies evenly. Congratulations! 

Lauren Hartz, Catherine Shaw and Nerida Samaha

Stage 2 Team

2021 school travel applications are now open.

Applications for student travel in 2021 opened from Monday 12 October 2020.

Students who require a School Opal card or travel pass for 2021 can now apply online. A new application should be submitted if a student is applying for a school travel pass for the first time or requesting an additional pass as a result of a new shared parental responsibility situation (e.g. joint custody).

Students who have changed school/campus, changed address, repeated a year or received an expiry notification from Transport for NSW for their school travel entitlement should re-apply or update their details.
*Applications must be completed by the student's parent or legal guardian if the student is aged under 16 years. Students 16 years and over must complete the application form themselves.

Where there is a change of distance eligibility based on a student’s grade, the system will automatically update a student’s entitlement if they meet the new criteria. If they do not meet the new eligibility criteria, they will receive an expiry notification via email.

Students who have an entitlement approved under a medical condition which is due to expire will receive a notification advising them to re-apply.

Term Bus Pass holders will receive a notification to re-apply. If a student needs to update their information or re-apply, they should go online to https://apps.transport.nsw.gov.au/ssts/updateDetails

Applications need to be submitted before 31 December 2020 to ensure that current student entitlements are updated and their current entitlement/card remains valid. If their application is submitted after 31 December 2020, the system will automatically cancel an entitlement/card and a new one will need to be issued.

Students in the Opal network applying for a SSTS or Term Bus Pass entitlement for the first time will receive their card at their nominated postal address. Cards will be mailed out from January 2021. Students residing in Rural and Regional (R&R) are

Oz Fashions supply all our student uniform requirements. 

115-127 Parramatta Road, Granville  (Corner of Parramatta Road and Good Street)

Phone:  9897 3121         Fax: 9897 3222

Email:  mail@ozfashions.com.au

Website:  www.ozfashions.com.au

Opening Hours

Monday—Friday 9:00am-5:30pm

Saturday 9:00am-4:00pm

Sunday CLOSED