St Monica's College
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St Monica's College is a Catholic
co-educational high school
previously an all girls school until 1978 located in the northern suburb of Epping
Melbourne
, Victoria
, Australia
, with 1,870 students. The college has enough students to warrant two campuses for students: one Junior (Years 7-9) on Dalton Road and one Senior (Years 10-12) on Davisson Street.
The school has two libraries, the Pamela Coyne library, on the Junior campus, it formerly had no name 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 a part of the school curriculum. It has a variety of different sports ranging from Australian Rules Football
to volleyball. The College also owns a 20 acre country property in Strath Creek.
St Monica's College is a Regional Catholic School and mainly serves surrounding schools:
The musicals performed so far are as follows:
As of 2009, straight theatre plays will be re-introduced alongside the annual college musical, this is the first time the college will perform both a musical and straight theatre play in the same year.
Catholic school
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co-educational high school
High school
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previously an all girls school until 1978 located in the northern suburb of Epping
Epping, Victoria
Epping is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 22 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Whittlesea...
Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, with 1,870 students. The college has enough students to warrant two campuses for students: one Junior (Years 7-9) on Dalton Road and one Senior (Years 10-12) on Davisson Street.
The school has two libraries, the Pamela Coyne library, on the Junior campus, it formerly had no name 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 a part of the school curriculum. It has a variety of different sports ranging from Australian Rules Football
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
to volleyball. The College also owns a 20 acre country property in Strath Creek.
St Monica's College is a Regional Catholic School and mainly serves surrounding schools:
- St Clare's Catholic Primary School, West ThomastownThomastown-Landmarks:Kilfane Glen is a restored historic 1790s garden of romantic era with waterfall, woodland walks and cottage orne. The garden is listed as an Irish Heritage garden and was awarded assistance in 1993 by the European Union Cultural Commission...
- St Luke's Catholic Primary School, LalorLalorLalor is an Irish surname derived from the Gaelic O Leathlobhair, meaning Half Leper. This is also the origin or the other variations in spelling of the name, O'Lawlor, Lawlor and Lawler...
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School, EppingEppingEpping is a small market town and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of the County of Essex, England. It is located north-east of Loughton, south of Harlow and north-west of Brentwood....
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 - 1989 Sr. Harriet Gleeson S.G.S
- 1990 - Present Mr. Brian E. 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 IThe King and IThe King and I is a stage musical, the fifth by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The work is based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon and derives from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, who became governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in...
- 1976 - The Sound of MusicThe Sound of MusicThe Sound of Music is a musical by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers...
- 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 LadyMy Fair LadyMy Fair Lady is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe...
- 1982 - KismetKismet (musical)Kismet is a musical with lyrics and musical adaptation by Robert Wright and George Forrest, adapted from the music of Alexander Borodin, and a book by Charles Lederer and Luther Davis, based on Kismet, the 1911 play by Edward Knoblock...
- 1983 - Annie Get Your GunAnnie Get Your Gun (musical)Annie Get Your Gun is a musical with lyrics and music written by Irving Berlin and a book by Herbert Fields and his sister Dorothy Fields. The story is a fictionalized version of the life of Annie Oakley , who was a sharpshooter from Ohio, and her husband, Frank Butler.The 1946 Broadway production...
- 1984 - SnoopySnoopySnoopy is an fictional character in the long-running comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. He is Charlie Brown's pet beagle. Snoopy began his life in the strip as a fairly conventional dog, but eventually evolved into perhaps the strip's most dynamic character—and among the most recognizable...
- 1985-2004 - Straight theatre plays performed annually (usually split into a separate junior and senior play.)
- 2005 - The WizThe WizThe Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls and book by William F. Brown. It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of African American culture. It opened on October 21, 1974 at the Morris A...
- 2006 - Bye Bye Birdie
- 2007 - AnnieAnnie (musical)Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years with a blonde Annie as the poster...
- 2008 - GreaseGrease (musical)Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School , follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love,...
- 2009 - FameFame (musical)A stage musical based on the 1980 musical film Fame has been staged under two titles. The first, 'Fame – The Musical' conceived and developed by David De Silva, is a musical with a book by Jose Fernandez, music by Steve Margoshes and lyrics by Jacques Levy. The musical premiered in 1988 in Miami,...
- 2010 - Crazy For YouCrazy for YouCrazy for You is a musical with a book by Ken Ludwig, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. Billed as "The New Gershwin Musical Comedy", it is largely based on the songwriting team’s 1930 musical, Girl Crazy, but interpolates songs from several other productions as well...
- 2011 - Singin' In The RainSingin' in the RainSingin' in the Rain is a 1952 American comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography...
As of 2009, straight theatre plays will be re-introduced alongside the annual college musical, this is the first time the college will perform both a musical and straight theatre play in the same year.
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
- 2004- Sharing and Shaping our Story
- 2005- Called by Name
- 2006- Courage
- 2007- Oil and Wine: Healing and Caring
- 2008- Peace and Harmony
- 2009- Fully Alive
- 2010- Something Beautiful for God
- 2011- Listen For God's Heartbeat
Languages Other Than English (L.O.T.E) (Subject)
There are four languages that can be learnt at St. Monica's. The languages that can be studied are (in order of students studying):- ItalianItalian languageItalian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
- FrenchFrench languageFrench is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
- SpanishSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
- JapaneseJapanese languageis a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...