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’.

On Wednesday 6th November, the whole school met in the Priory hall to have an assembly presented by the house captains. We were all very excited and sat eagerly awaiting to find out which was going to be the winning house so far. Would it be, Newman, Teresa or Romero?

A confirmation enrolment mass was held on Saturday evening at the Immaculate Conception and St. Dominic’s Stone, for Year 6 children from St. Dominic’s Priory School and St. Dominic’s Catholic Primary school who are preparing for the Sacrament of Confirmation.

At the end of October, GCSE Geography students visited Cannock Chase accompanied by Mrs Longmore. We visited Cannock Chase to complete an investigation on the characteristics of the Sherbrook river and how this may influence flood risk.

Primary 1 had a fabulous day at the Museum of Childhood. They had the opportunity to explore a huge variety of toys and what they were made of. The most exciting part of the day was climbing up a chimney to see what it was like for children in the past who were chimney sweeps.

We also had a quick visit to see what life was like in the Victorian schoolroom.

Primary 4 did some measuring in Maths today when weighing out their ingredients to make delicious smarties cookies - the best way to learn!