Dominic College is a vibrant community of students, staff, families, Old Scholars and volunteers. We produce a fortnightly Newsletter during term, featuring a variety of reports and stories from staff and student leaders in areas of administration, learning and curriculum, wellbeing, community 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 publications@dominic.tas.edu.au
On Wednesday Dominic College hosted the annual 5/6 Catholic Denison v Franklin Football and Netball representative matches at the College. The weather started well for the football game and the football teams were in amazing spirits as they competed in a highly-skilled match with the best players in Hobart. As the weather set in the game became even tougher. Congratulations to Liam
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On Tuesday 13 September Dominic College’s Year 5/6 Girls AFL team played their inaugural match at Dominic College against the Holy Rosary girls AFL team. The girls have trained in the lead up to the match this week and have worked hard on their kicking, handballing, positioning on the field and their use of voice. The match on Tuesday was played with amazing courage, skill and
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On Tuesday our firsts of the school netball team travelled to the Launceston Silverdome to compete with five other schools in the Tassie Hawks Cup. The girls played two matches, the first against St Patrick’s College where St Pat’s managed to come away with a narrow 27-23 win, and in the second match Dominic defeated St B
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Our Creative Arts Festival at Salamanca is over until 2018. We had a great time, thanks to the wonderful student art, media, dance, drama and music. And thanks to the dedication and flair of our teachers, visiting experts, support staff, expert curators, generous families and everyone in our community. There
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Once more family and friends can follow our student trips in September, as Year 6 visit Canberra, Year 9 visit the Northern Territory and Year 10 students visit Japan. It's the next best thing to being there!
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On Wednesday night, 7 September, we launched our 2016 Creative Arts Festival with a terrific community gathering in The Long Gallery in the Salamanca Arts Centre. The individual and collective student art works K-10 are so interesting and we all thoroughly enjoyed the launch. The Tasmanian Minister for the Arts, Dr Vanessa Goodwin, who la
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'No Strings Attached' is our Year 8 Dominic College contemporary rock and pop band. Newly formed in Term 3, 2016, the group consists of students who are new to performing and show a great interest and passion for music. Led by Guitar Tutor, Mark Schmalfuss, 'No Strings Attached' performs a student-led repertoire list of contemporary material that is re-arranged by the students themselves, pushing their instrumental abilities and growing their musicality.
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Nearly there. We are hanging and sticking, moving and tacking, arranging and admiring, all our student art, Kindergarten to Year 10, which will be on display in the Long Gallery in the Salamanca Arts Centre from 10am Thursday to Saturday.
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With less than a week to go until our Creative Arts Festival, Dominic College's K-2 students had a enjoyable week of dancing with the stars! Students in Kindergarten, Prep, Year 1 and Year 2 had a dance intensive each day with old scholar and dance master, Andrew Palmer, and his son, Henry Cornish and daughter Lily. Andrew and his family are
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A key goal of our Teaching and Learning Philosophy at Dominic College is for all students to achieve their best. We want to see ‘high expectations embedded in teaching and learning’. The following principles characterise the approach teachers take when working to close the achievement gap by establishing and maintaining high expectations:
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