News

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

Mamma Margaret's Kitchen - Cooking at Home

Remote Learning has been a well embraced challenge by students throughout the Food Technology courses. The Food Technology teachers have been creating cooking videos and pantry challenges. Year 7s are currently working on their 'design a salad' task where they research flavor combinations and dressings to see what works well together. Miss Gysen is looking forward to seeing a variety of salads appearing in the Microsoft Teams Home cooking chat.

DOSA Football Club wine offer

Dominic College, the Dominic Old Scholars Association and the DOSA Football Club have a great partnership and support each other in their endeavours. With the Old Scholar Football Association roster unable to commence so far this year, DOSA Football have not only been unable to get started with their football season but finances are more difficult without the weekend games.

COVID-19 PRINCIPAL'S UPDATE - 10 APRIL 2020

When we re-commence school on Monday 27 April we will commence Term 2 with confidence, and commitment. We are anticipating that most families will be able to keep their children home and we will have a percentage of those families of essential workers and those unable to provide supervision, who need ready support for their children from the College so they can go to work.

Kindergarten to Year 6 Assembly Awards

Even though we are currently not able to have assemblies, we still want to recognize some of our wonderful students. So each fortnight in Term 2 we will still be awarding certificates, but in a different way. We will create a video congratulating those students who have received an award.

COVID-19 PRINCIPAL'S UPDATE - FRIDAY 27 MARCH 2020

Today the Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein announced that families who are not essential workers can keep their children at home commencing this Monday 30 March. Please read an urgent update to all Dominic College families from Principal, Ms Beth Gilligan.

Dominic Old Scholars Association update

All physical activities of the Dominic Old Scholars Association have been cancelled or suspended by the DOSA Committee, as the community would expect.

COVID19 - PRINCIPAL'S UPDATE 22 MARCH 2020

My gratitude to all families for your positive support of our College during this unprecedented phenomenon of the spread of the Coronavirus and its impact on communities. The landscape of this enormous situation, however, is rapidly changed by the day and by the hour.

COVID-19 Update from Dominic College Principal

Thank you to all families for your positive support of our College decisions undertaken in the light of the national and state directives for the management of the Coronavirus and its impact on communities. The health and safety of our students and staff are upmost in all decisions undertaken by the College Leadership Team. Decisions have today been confirmed to both support directives from our state government and health authorities and implement their advice to reduce the rate of spread in the wider community, while enabling quality teaching & learning to continue.

Dominic DOSA Trivia Quiz Night cancelled

The Dominic DOSA Trivia Night Quiz scheduled for 27 March has been cancelled. With so many community and school events being cancelled or suspended the DOSA Committee felt there would be mixed feelings about supporting such an event, whatever people thought about risks.

International Women's Day Breakfast 2020

Our annual International Women’s Day Breakfast was held this week in the College Savio Centre. This is a wonderful community event, celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. We were delighted to welcome our special guest speaker, Dr Joanna Vince, a Dominic College Old Scholar and UTAS Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations.

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