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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

Olympic Opening Cermony

The ancients of Olympia were seen in 6A last week! On Friday 5 August the age0old tradition of the Rock, Paper, Scissors competition began the ceremony for the prestigious honour of Torchbearer. The Olympians processed around the K-4 area passing on the torch to assembled groups and then headed back over to their main gathering space.

Samoan students dancing in Glenorchy

During August and September, 45 students from the Don Bosco Technical Centre Samoa will embark on a three-week sponsored Australian tour and will visit Dominic College 4-6 September. The Don Bosco Technical Centre is renowned for its traditional siva (dance), and the Centre’s students are often invited to perform at public celebrations, and important events. In Samoa, dance or siva as it is called locally, is an essential element of Samoan life and culture. In recent years the Don Bosco Technical Centre dance troupe has performed at the Opening Ceremony of the 2014 United Nations Small Island Developing Nations Conference and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games.

Feast day - what an exhilirating day!

This week we have enjoyed the festivities of our Feast Day honouring our Dominican Patron Saints – St Dominic Guzman and St Catherine of Siena. It was a great day of prayer, fun and friendship for the whole community. We were grateful to warmly welcome back our former College Rector, Fr Frank Bertagnolli SDB to preside at our mass and to welcome our Dominican Sisters - Sr Pam Davis OP and Sr Mary Rickards OP to join us. The day opened with art activities in K-2 - we are in the lead up to our great Creative Arts festival in September, and students across the College are embracing their creative juices! The day closed with after-lunch buddy games for our K-6 students. In between we had it all! Volunteers making healthy salad rolls, academic races, theatresports, Mass and a talent show... here's a few snippets from the day:

Robocup finals at UTAS

Our Robotics students across the school have growing opportunities to learn, make friends and compete in a variety of competitions. Last Saturday 30 July the following students competed in the Robocup Junior Finals at UTAS, Sandy Bay:

Netball finals

Congratulations to all teams who have competed in SSATIS netball rosters and thank you to all parents, coaches and supervisors who have assisted this year. We have a number of teams who have been successful in qualifying for grand finals which are to be played next week:

Parent Portal opens

All parents who have provided email addresses would have recently received a letter from the Principal about accessing our new parent portal, SEQTA Engage. SEQTA Engage provides parents and guardians with a range of information on their child’s academic progress, including:

Diamond Award winners

At our 7-10 Assembly last week, 15 students were commended on receiving Diamond Awards for their Mid-Year Expectations Reports. These students received the full 5/5 from all of their teachers for each aspect of their: Attitude towards Learning, Organisation in the Learning Environment, Contribution to the Learning Environment and Respect for the Learning Environment in every subject.

Magic moments on stage

The Scriptless Cup for 2016 was held on the final day of Term 2. Over the four years we have been running this event, the traditions and rituals that form part of the fun have been evolving - the coveted plastic Chicken Trophy, the Magic Moment Award as well as the various bonus marks for tasks such as improvised interpretative dance, and the supreme prize, a bucket of minties.

Canteens to merge

The College is in a constant cycle of review of our work, systems and processes. Under review has been both our Canteen Service and our Uniform Service to students and families. We appreciate the need to be able to support families in the provision of good healthy lunch options for students and an on-site Uniform Shop. We are committed to continue to do this K-10. In our reviews and with consultation with our P&F, we have decided to centralise the College Canteen into the current 7-10 canteen.

My Samoan experience

The purpose of my immersion was to join to Cagliero team and travel around Samoa to work with the youth throughout many Salesian communities. We met with three different youth groups during our stay and introduced them to a range of activities and games which we commonly play in Australia. We began our journey on the island of Upolu in Leauva'a where we spent our time with the youth group at St Michael’s Parish.

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