Physical Education
St Monica’s offers a comprehensive and active Physical Education program that allows children to participate at their own level of competency, whilst striving to reach their maximum potential. Each Year level participates in a 60 minute Physical Education lesson each week involving fitness, ball handling and minor and major games. Our program at St Monica’s offers all children the opportunity to participate and develop an appreciation for a variety of sports in a safe and inclusive environment. Sports like Tennis, Soccer, Hockey, Badminton and Basketball are some of the favourites amongst students and through the Sporting Schools Australia funding and other local programs students frequently enjoy engaging in sports clinics with professional coaches. Physical
Education at St Monica’s also enables students at all entry levels to participate in different sports and games while fostering a lifelong enjoyment for being physically active while learning the fundamental skills of locomotion, ball control, throwing, tracking, kicking and striking as per Victorian Curriculum.
Kitchen Garden:
St Monica’s has reimagined our Kitchen Garden program as we believe it is about pleasurable food education. It provides students with the opportunity to grow, nurture, harvest, prepare, cook and share delicious, nutritious, seasonal foods. Our school garden underwent a significant rejuvenation in 2022 thus providing a program enabling students a hands-on experience in the process of growing and preparing food, as well as encouraging students to consider environmental sustainability and healthy food choices.
Being outside in nature and tending to our gardens is a huge part of our program, we love getting our hands dirty. Students learn how to care for our garden through planting, weeding, watering, mulching, fertilising and composting. The kitchen garden program encourages teamwork, critical thinking and a love of the outdoors as well promoting a sense of harmony and community engagement.
Changes are sometimes made to the Specialist Day Timetable. Families are informed of Specialist Day changes in the school’s newsletter when this is required.
