The Spring Term came to a close with Stations of the Cross.

Once more, the readings, music and artwork made for a very powerful and moving service; a fitting climax to our Lenten observance.

Well done to all concerned, particularly Year 9 students.

Primary 6 pupils have been finding out about volcanoes in humanities.

Each pupil made their own volcano out of a bottle, card, newspaper and plaster before painting it appropriate colours. Then they used their knowledge of chemical reactions from the Science topic to make the volcanoes erupt.

This week in preparation for their first D of E expedition on the 4th and 5th of May, our year 10 students have been learning about map reading, grid references and route planning.

Congratulations to Caitlyn and Sissy who won their respective U11 and U13 Staffs County Individual Table Tennis Tournaments.

They will now go on to represent Staffordshire at the Butterfly National Table Tennis Championships at Aldersley Stadium, Wolverhampton on the Saturday 27th April.

Good luck girls!

...And the staff were victorious!

Primary 2 have been helping Derek with his gardening duties.

Primary 3 have begun making their very own Egyptian tombs – watch this space for their final designs later on this week!

On Monday afternoon, Reception and Pre-school invited parents and family members to join them for their Stay and Play session.

'On Thursday 4th April, Max and Emma from Signal 1 came in to talk to us about the life of a radio station. Max is a presenter on the overnight show and Emma is a creative writer; creating and voicing adverts!

Primary 4 were thrilled to share their comic strips with Mrs Hesp in the School House. They have worked hard to produce complex sentences and created some amazing comics!

During March, we held a competition to design a poster on ‘Internet Safety’.

There were many entries for this competition and it was very difficult to choose the winners.

Each of the winning posters included a strong and clear message about how to be safe when using the internet and each poster was presented very well.

In March, some of our students entered the National Intermediate Mathematical Challenge.

The aim of the challenge is to stimulate mathematical problem-solving.

Well done to all of the students who took part, we are very proud to announce that four St Dominic’s students have achieved a certificate.

This is a huge achievement as these students are the highest performers in the Challenge; the top-scoring 40% of participants are awarded bronze, silver and gold certificates in the ratio 3:2:1.