St. Monica Catholic School Council Newsletter
Issue 19
June 23, 2010
“Connecting Parents and Guardians with the School Community…”
It has been a busy year and we are pleased to
share some highlights from St. Monica School
Council with you. The members of this year’s
Council were:
School Council 2009/10
Co-Chairs
Secretary
Treasurer
Community Rep.
Parish Rep.
Parent Reps.
OAPCE Rep.
Teacher Rep.
Vice Principal
Principal
Lori McNicol
Luana Felato
Fatima Cabral
Maureen Rooke
Anita Skara
Diane Maheu
Melanie Kowdrysh
Dolly Khokhar
Shadab Khokhar
Daphne Grecco
Peter Krolewski
Maura Smith
New Gator In Our Halls!
On Monday, February 22nd some of our students
presented the new Gator-wear and Class of 2010
Grad-wear at the school fashion show. Special
thanks to Mme. Leo and Mme. Zarkovic for
organizing the event. Thanks to our models, who
also did a great job of showcasing the new
clothing on the St. Monica runway!
The new Gator-wear arrived in April and was
quickly distributed to classes and students in
individual packages. Thanks to Ms. McIntyre,
Ms. Sunseri and our student-helpers for
assisting with the order collection and distribution.
SchoolTee Inc. did a great job of designing our
new school logo and provided good quality
clothing for our students and staff.
If you missed the opportunity to order the clothing
this year, we will be sending the order forms home
again in the first week of September 2010.
THANK YOU to all of our members who attended
meetings and committed their time and efforts to
enhance Council initiatives this year. There were
some new and returning members. Through the
year, we welcomed parents to our meetings who
were able to ask questions and offer ideas.
A special thank you also to the staff and teachers,
especially Ms. Smith, Mr. Krolewski,
Ms. McIntyre and Ms. Sunseri for supporting our
activities and initiatives!
STOP Germs & Viruses
at School and Camp!
As a service to our school community,
we offered gelFAST 2Go Clip-On Hand
Sanitizers for the not-for-profit price of
$3.00 each. We have sold 300 hand
sanitizers and they are still available.
Please visit the main office if you would
like to buy some sanitizers to help stop
the spread of germs at summer camp!
Gingerbread Fundraiser
Recycling Ink and
Labels for Education
Jocina’s House
Matthew & Dylan’s Train
To enhance our current recycling efforts,
St. Monica School Council continued the Printer
Cartridge Recycling Project to encourage our
children to REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE.
This year we collected $245 worth of cartridges
and toners for a total of $283 since we started the
program last year.
For our first fundraiser, we offered Create A
Treat…TM Gingerbread kits. These wonderful kits
were available as a house or a train and included
the gingerbread, icing, decorations and building
tray. With your support, we were able to raise
about $620!
We also started collecting labels from Campbell’s
soup cans and other products again. Each label
earns at least one point towards FREE
merchandise for our school from the Labels for
Education Program. Check the following link for
the list of eligible products:
www.labelsforeducation.ca/english/eligible.asp
Swing into Spring Dance
This summer, please save your ink
cartridges/toners and Campbell’s food product
labels for us!
Thank you for helping to
raise just over $4,500!
On Friday April 23rd, St. Monica School held a
Dance-a-thon to help improve our Benevolent
Fund. Your support helped families in need send
their Grade 8 children to Camp Muskoka.
Additional funds will also be used to enhance
educational programming at St. Monica School.
Our prize winners were:
PRIZE
ST
1 PRIZE:
One night stay at the Doubletree
International Plaza Hotel (Toronto
Airport) for a family of four
ND
2 PRIZE:
iPod Nano
RD
3 PRIZE:
iPod Shuffle
TH
4 PRIZE:
Cineplex Odeon Movie passes
WINNER
JESSE FOURNIER
(Grade 1)
GABRIELLE DO
(GRADE 2)
ALEX SOLANO
(Grade S.K.)
M ATTHEW
KOWDRYSH
(Grade 3)
There were also some great spot dance prizes
and free ice cream and water for our students.
Special thanks to Melanie Kowdrysh for
designing the great logo, Dance-a-thon pledge
form and for obtaining the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes!
We would also like the thank Maureen Rooke for
donating the movie passes!
Financial Support
The School Council was pleased to provide
St. Monica School with funds to support new and
ongoing programs such as the Forest of Reading,
Canada Skills Competition, Teacher Appreciation
Luncheon, classroom extras for teachers, student
agenda subsidy, the Benevolent Fund, charitable
donations, Proxima projectors, a portable sound
system for the school and taping of the “Green
Doors” school song at the Rose Theatre.
Next Council – Join us!
Why not consider joining the Council for the
2010/2011 year? Nomination forms will be
distributed in September 2010. Help us to
enhance student life at St. Monica School!
Have a wonderful summer!
Phone:
Website:
E-mail:
CONTACT INFORMATION
(905) 454-6346
www.dpcdsb.org/MONIC/School+Council/
council4parents@yahoo.ca
The Link newsletter is written by parents for parents…
Author/Editor: L. Felato (Co-Chair)
L. McNicol (Co-Chair), M. Smith (Principal)
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