ƵƬ has two stalls at the Festival of Bright Ideas, thanks to the hard work of Ms Jane Myers and Mr Brad Parkin. The first day was Friday 11 August, a schools only day. Students were busy entertaining and educating visiting groups of students from all over Hobart, public, independent and Catholic.
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The Dominic Old Scholars Association (DOSA) committee normally meets in the Basil Fox Room at Grantleigh once or twice a term. However, the August meeting was held at Guilford Young College, the former ƵƬ Senior Campus, in the GYC Boardroom, the former chapel at Holy Name Convent. Many thanks to GYC for their hospitality in allowing the DOSA Committee to use this space. After our regular meeting to discuss upcoming events and matters of interest to past students, the committee atte
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On Wednesday, we celebrated our Dominican Feast Day with great gusto. Our Feast Day aims to affirm the meaning the lives of our Patrons, St Dominic Guzman and St Catherine of Siena continue to hold for us today. Both these saints were exemplary servants of the Church and people of great faith, undertaking courageous wo
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A combination of Neil Simon and Chekhov, The Good Doctor, is a comedy that is by turns, charming, hilarious, sad, and touching. It centres around a writer, who speaks to the audience and shares his writing with them, throughout one day. He presents them with a variety of scene
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The DOSA (Dominic Old Scholars Association) Football Club is having its annual “Wine Drive” to raise some much needed funds for this wonderful volunteer organisation. Mr Davey and myself as players of this great club and as staff members of the school have loved the support from ƵƬ and the wider Dominic Community over our duration as members of DOSA F.C.
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ƵƬ old scholar, Ryan Enniss, Class of 2013, is studying at UTAS Launceston, and is the Artistic Director of Fawkes Theatre Company there. Ryan says they have just had a very exciting season of Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’, in which he played the lead role of Creon. ‘We will be touring th
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Elective Dance students enjoyed great success at the Southern Tasmania Dance Eisteddfod on the first day of competition, in the secondary schools group section. Dominic had two classes entered, the Year 8 Dance Elective and the Years 9/10 Dance Elective c
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On Monday 3 July, 21 students represented ƵƬ at the Flag Raising Ceremony held at Risdon Cove to begin NAIDOC week celebrations. On a beautiful but frosty morning, students walked to the top of the hill at Risdon Cove and gathered with many others who listened to a Welcome to Country, watched as the flag was raised
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Year 6 students at ƵƬ recently premiered their production of ‘Say It Loud!’ The annual show featured three original one act plays devised, scripted and presented by the students. Now in its fourth year at ƵƬ, ‘Say It Loud!’ is the culmination of the College’s primary drama curriculum
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All three Year 6 classes have been busily preparing for the annual ‘Say it Loud’ performances on Tuesday 4 July. ‘Say it Loud’ is a playbuilding program unique to ƵƬ. Over the course of 15 weeks Year 6 students create self-devised documentary drama. Documentary drama is theatre that wholly or in part uses pre-existing documentary material (such as newspapers, government reports, interviews, etc.) as source material to develop into a performance script, where possible, using verbatim material mixed with the interpretation of the student. Our Year
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