Teaching & Learning

School Registration process praised

On Friday 31 August, the College hosted our School Re-registration visit by the Office of Education Registration (OER). The OER team comprised Dr Jill Abel, Mr Lynden Leppard and Mr Michael Moore.

2019 and 2020 Japan trips dates change

Due to the Rugby World Cup being hosted by Japan in September 2019, and then the Summer Olympics being hosted by Tokyo in August/September 2020, Dominic College has decided to make some alterations to the way we usually schedule the Japan Study Tour in 2019 and 2020. With high costs due to peak travel, difficulty securing bookings, and increased risks to manage, we have decided to run a combined Year 9 and 10 Japan Study Tour in April 2019.

Innovative teaching and vocabulary development

Ensuring reading and writing success in the Early Years is our most important responsibility. One of the things that fascinates me most about being an Early Years educator is watching as our students acquire new skills, skills which enable them to read and write.

Year 6 Canberra trip blog

It is that time of year again, and the countdown is on as we head to the last few weeks of Term 3! Students are getting very excited about the prospects of jetting to Canberra for an educationally rich trip, full of wonderful experiences and great times shared with classmates. This year we have a couple of new venues on our itinerary to explore that link in with History, Geography as well as Science.

Melbourne Writers Festival 2018

On Monday 27 August, Rachael Glidden, Sophie Moy, Lily Bowerman, Hannah Lane-MacDonald, Henry Edwards, Tyler Wheeler, Abbey Turner, Chloe Cooper, Erin Waters and Heidi McPherson headed to Melbourne with Mr Kress and Mrs Le Rossignol for the Melbourne Writers Festival. We departed Hobart early and arrived in Melbourne at about 7.20am. We caught the Sky Bus into town and went to Federation Square where the workshops were held.

Veritas 2018

This year’s Veritas magazine, the magazine of the Dominic Old Scholars Association, has been mailed to families and to old scholars who are on our mail list. If you have not received your copy by 5 September, please email oldscholars@dominic.tas.edu.au and include your correct postal address. We will investigate and send you a new magazine if it has gone astray.

Masterclasses

Thank you to our arts professionals who have been running Masterclasses for selected students throughout our Creative Arts Festival. These have been held in the Salamanca Arts precinct and have now built on our initial experience of developing this program two years ago.

Dominiku Daiko performs at the CAF launch

Congratulations to the nine dedicated students who committed to participating in a 10 week course of taiko drumming, followed up by a performance at the Opening of the Creative Arts Festival on Wednesday.

Dominic College teacher wins national 'Teacher of the Year' Award

Mr Mike O’Brien, Director of Creative Arts K-10 and Mrs Jane Doyle, Coordinator of Teaching & Learning K-2 were nominated and short-listed for the 2018 Australian Education Awards for Head of Faculty and Teacher of the Year, respectively.

Book Week news

During Book Week, there has been a Scholastic Book Fair in the K-6 section of the library. Many families visited the fair and bought books. We can now use a percentage of sales to buy more books for the library. The Picture Book of the Year was also on display for parents and children to read. Mr Gray, the new library assistant enjoyed meeting the families of Dominic in his third week working at the school.

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