On Wednesday 21st March, we held a special whole school assembly on Earth Hour. Mrs Longmore led the assembly and asked students to think about; what makes Planet Earth special? What are the biggest threats to Planet Earth and what can we do to help to protect the planet?
Primary 1 had a wonderful day visiting the Museum of Childhood. Thank you to our very informative tour guide who showed us around the museum. We played with toys from the past and compared them to the toys that we play with now.
On Wednesday 21st March, the History students at St Dominic’s Priory from Years 9-11 had the privilege of meeting Renate Thomas and finding out what it was like to be a young child growing up in Nazi Germany.
On Friday 16th March children in the prep school enjoyed practical experiments and activities as part of our Science Day.
Yesterday the Careers Bus, sponsored by the Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group, arrived in school to provide advice on post -16 options.
Today In assembly P5 students talked to other pupils in the Prep school about International Women's Day.
We are pleased to announce that the winners of our ‘World Book Day’ challenge, to match the book to the member of staff, are: Ava Stacey (Y10) and Emily Frodsham (Y10).
Our ‘World Book Day’ theme this year is ‘Fairy-tales and Theories’!
The Preparatory school could not wait to be the most charming Cinderella’s or the most odious ogres today! Pupils from P1 to P6 have been busy with the challenge of creating wondrously new Fairy-tale openings, whist still controlling those ‘articles’, ‘adverbs’ and maybe even ‘semi-colons’!
St. Dominic's were crowned Staffordshire County Champions after our young athletes were in action at the Staffordshire U11 County Sportshall Athletics Championships at Fenton Manor Sports Centre this week.
Sportshall athletics consists of short and longer distance team track events staged on a linear track, along with speed bounce, chest ball push, foam javelin, and standing long, triple, and vertical jump in the field events.
St. Dominic's came away with a County Champion title and two runners-up after competing this week in the Staffordshire Schools Individual Table Tennis Championships held at Clayton Academy.
Fielding maximum entrants in both girls and boys age groups, 16 students took part in the two age categories Under 11 and U13.
We enjoyed the visit from some Chinese Students on Wednesday last week.
They joined our year 9 pupils for the day so they could experience a typical day in an English school. They had French, biology music, history, art lessons which they all embraced and enjoyed.