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


Prep Twilight Night

In our Term 3 Science unit, Weather in our World, Prep is exploring how daily and seasonal changes in our environment affect everyday life. Through guided investigations, the students are engaging in observing events, asking questions and describing changes about the weather and how it affects us.

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Clarence Eisteddfod success

​Dominic Choirs have traditionally been very competitive at the Clarence Eisteddfod. The current results have seen our Concert Bands move up several notches with equally strong results reflecting the development of Music at the college.

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VET at Dominic College

Dominic College is a member of the consortium of Catholic Colleges that offer a VET in schools program as part of our elective offerings. Students can undertake 3-4 units in the following courses:

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Mental Health Week, from the Captains

​Last week, Mental Health Week 2.0 took place with more workshops and activities and guest speakers from all over Australia. Last year’s inaugural Mental Health Week was a huge success but we wanted to build and make it even bigger and better.

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Music & Dance Showcase 2019

Thursday 19 September is the date for our Music & Dance Showcase for 2019. The Showcase gives an opportunity for our larger scale Dance and Music works at the College to be presented in a suitable venue with full stage and an auditorium that can accommodate family and friends of our 200 plus performers.

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Mental Health Week success

Our week is aimed at prevention of mental health conditions in our students. All research indicates that having strong social connections and personal relationships as well as being part of a community are essential to maintaining good mental health.

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Trivia night is OFF

Year 10 students are disappointed to advise that Friday night’s Trivia Quiz event has been postponed due to insufficient prior bookings. Although support was growing, bookings did not meet the minimum advanced ticket sales necessary to meet the required deposits for catering and support.

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Morning provocations in Kinder

By now you will have noticed that each morning your child’s class has a number of ‘activities’ set up to be explored after they have put away their bags and signed in.

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RoboCup success

Over Term 2 and 3 students in Robotics Club have been preparing to compete in Robocup Junior competitions.

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Veritas magazine for 2019

​The old scholars magazine, Veritas, for 2019, was mailed out to families and old scholars early this term. If you did not receive a copy please email oldscholars@dominic.tas.edu.au with your postal address and we will check where your magazine was sent. If other family members would like to receive our magazines let us know.

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