Following a poetry competition surrounding themes of memories and loss which we entered as a school, several St. Dominic’s students were successfully chosen to have their work published in an anthology of all winning entries and to meet our local Poet Laureate.
On Monday 2nd December, Year 8 students gave wonderful presentations on a natural hazard of their choice.
The members of the PFA would like to thank all of our friends and families for supporting the Christmas Fayre this year. We made an amazing £3,500 for our school!
On Wednesday, six Year 9 students participated in the Geographical Association’s Worldwise Quiz held at Staffordshire University.
On the evening of Thursday 21st November children from Prep and Seniors met with Mrs Hesp, Mrs Talbot and Miss Hill in Stone High Street for the annual Christmas lights switch-on.
On Friday 22nd November, the two children from each year group in the prep with the most house points were lucky enough to go to Bishops Offley Christmas Tree Farm to choose our school’s Christmas Trees.
Last week at Lichfield Cathedral was the prize giving for the poetry competition ‘The Word’.
Michael Symmons Roberts, a Whitbread Poetry and Costa prize winner was there to hand out 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes in 4 categories 7-11; 12-16; 17-25; 26+
On Wednesdays, after school, there is a Craft and Sewing Club. Mrs Moore and Mrs Jarvis run this fun after school activity.
On Friday lunchtimes there is an activity called relaxed kids. Anyone from the prep can attend.
This year the Harvest Assembly was led by Primary 6. They spoke about how we can all care for our world by thinking about what we are doing. There were also contributions from Primary 2. Primary 5 shared their memories of the recent Bushcraft trip which they recently went on with Primary 6.
This week in Pre-School we have been exploring our Santa’s Workshop role-play, decorated Christmas trees on our funky fingers table, practised forming numbers in Christmas messy play and posted the letters that we have written to Santa at the North Pole!
On Friday 22nd November, students from Years 9, 10 and 11 took a trip to the Stoke Repertory Theatre to watch a fantastic performance of the literary classic, ‘A Christmas Carol’.
