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


Quiz Night announced

The 2019 Year 10 student leaders are running a number of fundraisers in preparation for their Year 10 gift to the conclusion of 2019. A new initiative that will be led by the Academic Captains is a Dominic College Quiz Night.

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Academic Pathways Evening coming up

​Students in Years 7, 8 and 9, together with their parents/carers are invited to attend the Academic Pathway evening session from 6.30-8.00pm on Tuesday 20 August in the Savio Centre. Teachers will be available to provide assistance and advice with elective subject choices for 2020.

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Catholic Art Competition win

​Congratulations to Year 9 Visual Arts student, Shakira Cate who was named as the winner of the Arch’s Archies, an Art competition initiated by Catholic Education Tasmania.

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Dominican Saints Feast Day Mass

Wednesday 31 July was our Dominican Feast Day where we celebrated the lives and great contributions of our Dominican patron saints Dominic Guzman and Catherine of Siena.

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Science Fair on 14 August

In preparation for our Dominic College Science Fair which takes place on Wednesday 14 August, students have been planning and carrying out experiments to see why the world works the way it does.

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Congrats Luke Golding

In a huge milestone, old scholar Luke ‘Gobble’ Golding (1997) played game number 300 for the DOSA Football Club at the TCA on Saturday, in an important win over Hutchins for the reserves side.

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Morning Tea Tour coming up!

​Are you looking at where to enrol your children in 2020 or 2021?

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Robocup Junior Regionals success

​Dominic College's three entries in the Robocup Junior Hobart Regionals all progressed to the State Finals on the weekend.

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Welcome Mr Akihiro Shimomura

​This week we welcomed back Mr Mike O’Brien, our Director of Creative Arts K-10 from his exchange time at Shizuoka Salesio School, Japan. At the same time, we have warmly welcomed Mr Akihiro Shimomura from Salesio onto our teaching staff for this term.

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Mental Health Week 2019 announced

Following the great success of the 2018 Mental Health Week, we have expanded further, with more workshops and guest speakers from all over Australia. From the moment we were elected captains, we knew we wanted to continue and build upon the compelling and powerful project that Mental Health Week is and the messages that it spreads.

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