News

Dominic College is a vibrant community of students, staff, families, old scholars and volunteers. We produce a weekly newsletter during term, usually available on a Friday afternoon, featuring a variety of reports and stories from staff and student leaders in areas of administration, teaching and learning, pastoral care and mission.

You'll find a selection of stories here, too, plus additional new items in between newsletters. Your contribution and news is always welcome - please email newsletter@dominic.tas.edu.au


Dominic Animal Husbandry at Bushy Park Show

The Animal Husbandry Show Team have attended their first show at the Bushy Park Show where they showed either sheep or miniature ponies. All students and animals did a fantastic job, making the school very proud and coming away with some prizes. Bella Davis won the Champion Handler Class and Bella Rime achieved Reserve Champion.

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​eSafety - A Home and School Responsibility

The staff at Dominic College take eSafety very seriously and part of our role as a school is to teach and inform our children, staff, families, and the wider community about the risks of electronic media, whilst also acknowledging the many benefits that the internet can offer to help student learning and wellbeing.

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Dominic College 50 Year Anniversary Celebration

This year we mark the celebration of 50 years as Dominic College. The Dominican Sisters and the Salesians of Don Bosco merged their Glenorchy schools in 1973 and we are all fortunate to be here as current students, staff and community members in 2023 embracing the traditions of these two wonderful charisms

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Old Scholars Christmas Eve

The traditional Dominic College carols and Mass was held Christmas Eve in the Chapel with a good attendance of old scholars, families and friends.

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A Christmas Message from our Principal

Our College has continued to thrive as a faith-based learning centre during the 2022 Academic Year. At the start of the year, we were challenged by our 2022 Strenna to ‘do all through love, and nothing through constraint’ and for us all to be people who make Dominic College a HOME that welcomes, a PARISH that evangelises, a SCHOOL that prepares for life and a PLAYGROUND where friends meet and enjoy themselves.

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Year 10 Class of 2002 reunion

​The Year 10 Class of 2002 held a reunion at Dominic College on Saturday afternoon 3 December 2022.

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Farewell to our Year 10 Graduating Students of 2022

We say thank you and good luck to our Year 10 students as they end their journey with us here at Dominic College. For some, this journey commenced back in Kindergarten in 2011 and it is with genuine affection that we now send each of these young people on to the next phase of their educational pathway.

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Graduation Mass 2022: new old scholars

​The Year 10 Class of 2022 officially became Old Scholars at their Graduation Mass held Thursday evening 24 November 2022. In a beautiful ceremony, held again in the College's Savio Centre, Year 10 students, staff, old scholars, family and friends gathered to commend the Class of 2022, to celebrate with Mass and for the students to receive their graduation certificates.

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Hall of Achievement 2022

In our annual Years 6-10 Awards ceremony we recognise the achievements of our students with subject awards and special awards for commitment to Academic, Mission, Creative Arts and Sports goals. We also induct two special old scholars into the Dominic College Hall of Achievement, recognising their achievements post-school. In our 2022 induction on Wednesday 23 November 2022 we inducted Ms Kate Smith and Doctor Samuel Dixinto the Dominic College Hall of Achievement.

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40-years reunion of the Class of 1982

​The Year 10 Class of 1982 held their 40-years reunion on Saturday 5 November 2022 in the White House at Dominic College.

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