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St Monica's College

Motto	Pray and Persevere
Established	1964
Type	Catholic College
Affiliations	Roman Catholic Church,
Principal	Mr. Brian Hanley
Students	1,900+
Grades	Years 7-12
Location	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Campus	Dalton Road Campus, Epping, Davisson Street Campus, Epping, Ostia Country Campus, Strath Creek
Colours	Blue and Gold
Website	[1]

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, such as the Junior Writers Retreat.

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.

Contents 1 College Song "Together in Freedom and Love" 2 Houses 3 Principals 3.1 College Productions 3.2 Sister Schools 3.3 Annual College Themes 3.4 Languages Other Than English(L.O.T.E)(Subject) 4 References

[edit] College Song "Together in Freedom and Love"

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 love

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)

[edit] 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.

St Monica's College houses
House Name	Colour
Larapinta	Blue
Glenora	Yellow
Alkira	Green
Barinya	Red

[edit] 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

[edit] College Productions

St. Monica's College is heavily involved in performing arts. The college has been putting on performances since it first opened. The college began performing musicals again in 2005, after not doing so for 20 years. 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 (since 2005) are as follows:

2005 - The Wiz

2006 - Bye Bye Birdie

2007 - Annie

2008 - Grease (Rehearsing)

[edit] Sister 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

Modern Greek

[edit] References

St. Monica's College Website

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