Outstanding support for Relay For Life by students, staff and families

​On 25 and 26 March, Dominic College participated in the Relay for Life, for the second time. 2017 was an extra special year following the shock news our loved College Principal, Ms Beth Gilligan, was diagnosed with cancer. Together, the students and staff wanted

K-6 Open Classroom for parents and carers

Dear Parents and Carers - You are invited to share in your child’s learning at Dominic College through our K–6 Open Classroom Afternoon. The Open Classroom Afternoon will give you the opportunity to spend time in your child’s classroom and participate in learning activities.

DOSA ready for Round 1

​The Old Scholars Football Association has released the 2017 roster, and DOSA hosts University in a huge Round 1 fixture at the TCA. Snowy - old scholar Brendan Loveless - plays his 363rd game for DOSA, breaking the record previously held by the great Tom Jarvis. The team has been prepared well by the coaching staff, with good practice games in the last few weeks against Claremont, and

100 years of service

Congratulations to Mr Warwick Cardamatis, Mrs Jane Doyle, Mr Rocco Mangione and Mr David Reinbach​, who received awards for 25 years of service to Catholic Education in Tasmania from the TCEO at St Mary's Cathedral on Thursday 23 March. These four Dominic College teachers were among 25 teachers recognised and honoured, during Catholic Education W

Dominic old scholars feature in GYC awards

Parent Literacy Night Part 11

This week saw the second in the series of planned Literacy Presentations for parents with children in K-6. On Wednesday evening a large number of parents joined the Year 3–6 teachers to find out more about spelling strategies they can use to support their child’s learning at home.

P&F news 24 March

Term 1 is flying by and we have three major events on in the next few weeks. Our Easter Raffle is up and running and donations and raffle tickets are starting to come into the school offices, so thank you to everyone who has donated so far. Please remember you can donate until 5 April and extra raffle tickets can be picked up from either the K-6 or 7-10 offices. We

K-6 Pastoral Care: What a week!

​There have been many wonderful Pastoral Care events over the last week; Year 5 had an important whole-year at Far South Wilderness Camp; we looked at the idea of inclusion on the National Day Against Bullying and we recognised the importance of ‘Everyone Belongs’ on Harmony Day. Another highlight was students in Years 4 and 6 take part in a mannequin challenge that showed us how a ‘Happy Playground’ looked. The "Mannequin Challenge" is a vi

Year 5 camp stories

​​​​​Year 5 experienced their first Dominic camp last week when they spent three days at Far South Wilderness Lodge. The theme of the camp was “Let your Light Shine” and the children explored how they could let their inner selves shine in order to be more like Christ. The many and varied activities that took place on camp included bushwalking,

Year 7 camp stories

​On camp we undertook a really big hike - a 5km walk to and from Bivouac Bay to stay the night. When we got to camp we prepared our sleeping gear. After we had all our things ready we had about 5 to 10 minutes to relax, before we had to get started on our tea which the wonderful Mrs Davey helped prepare. The dinner was carbonara, so we needed to chop the the onions, mushrooms a