One of our Prep students Matthew, has just completed a 14 show run of Oliver! at China Hall in Spode by Stage Productions where he played Nipper in Fagin’s gang and was also a Workhouse Child and Book Seller’s Boy. He has had a marvellous experience performing to audiences of up to 400 people each show. He had a singing solo and played an important role as the comic value in Fagin’s Gang, pulling out Fagin’s underwear, flossing and being dragged off stage by his collar amongst other things, much to the enjoyment of the audiences.

On Wednesday 5th June our Year 10 History students visited Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire. As part of their History Around Us module, the students have to visit a historical site and examine its physical remains. They then use this knowledge to form an enquiry in their exam. We were lucky enough to enjoy a sunny day at Kenilworth Castle, exploring the ruins of this spectacular site.

The students created a movie on their experience – explaining who the key individuals associated with Kenilworth were and why they are so important to its development.

For the start of their new topic ‘The world around me', Pre-school have been learning all about different habitats and the animals that live there. They enjoyed a discussion about the different features the animals had to survive in the different places.

At St Dominic’s we love to recognise the achievements of our students through House Celebration Assemblies.

In the Senior school, Hallahan and Ullathorne Houses met to celebrate their recent achievements. It was such a pleasure to award so many badges- lots of silver and gold badges in particular.

A special mention must go to four of our Year 8 students who achieved their Ruby Award for gaining 125 House points each!
Congratulations to Tabitha, Madeline, Caitlyn, and Sophie. 

Olivia Y7 has had a very busy few months competing her ponies Barkway chit Chat and Whalton Esmerelda.

She competed at the Royal Windsor horse show where she managed to qualify both her ponies for the Royal International Horse Show, which is being held later this year at Hickstead.

The Yr 8/9 & Yr 10/11 Stafford & District Athletics Championships took place at Rowley Park Stadium, Stafford just over two weeks into the Summer Term.

Grace, Caitlyn and Mary were crowned Stafford & District Champions in the Discus, 1500m and Javelin respectively.

Oliver took double silver medals finishing as runner up in the hurdles and discus.

Henry, Rose and Georgia took bronze medals in the high jump, javelin and discus.

Our U11 girls cricket team took second place out of eight teams at the Stafford & Stone Sports Partnership District Tournament held at Milford Cricket Club just before half-term.

Well done to Sissy, Alice, Bella, Marcie, Maisie, Joyella, Megan, Grace and Mercy.

Our U11 mixed tri golf team qualified for the prestigious Staffordshire School Games as one of the best tri golf teams in the County in winning the Stafford & Stone Sports Partnership Competition.

Chipping and putting their way to success through eight different challenges were Marcie, Joel, Sissy, Joe, Alice, Barnaby, Bella, Joe, Harry and Summer.

St. Dominic's have now won this trophy six times in the last seven years!

Competing at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham in the Midlands Independent Schools Athletics Championships our athletes performed extremely well on the day.

Primary 5 have been super busy during their humanities lesson today!

As part of Pre-school's 'Under the Sea' topic, the children have been learning all about fish.

A group of children walked to Morrisons and visited the fishmongers. They spoke to a lovely man about all of the fish that he was selling and brought back to school some sardines for their friends to have a look at.

Congratulations to Jess in Y7, who took part in the 5K, Pretty Muddy 'Race for Life' event at Weston Park on the 4th May to raise money for Cancer Research.

Jess and her brother raised an amazing £295.00 for the cause. They ran with 13 other friends and a total of 9 parents.

It was an emotional but wonderful, fun day for all.