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Coming home today via email is a copy of your 2023 School Fee Statement. Accompanying this email is a payment option form that you are asked to complete and return to Sandra Raso (Finance Officer) by Friday, 17th February, 2023. If you haven’t received your statement, please check your junk folder in the first instance,…
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On Wednesday, 15th February, we will be setting up the Year Five students’ iPads with the Jamf (Zuludesk) management system. As outlined in the BYOD iPad document sent home last year and located on our school website, Jamf is a piece of software that allows staff greater control over which apps are seen/ used by…
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Dominican Cross The Dominican Cross is a symbol that represents the Order of Preachers, also known as the Dominican Order. The Cross is a Gyronny Cross, which reflects the characteristic Dominican habit, largely unchanged for 800 years: a long white tunic, contrasting with a black cloak, shoulder cape and/ or scapular. The black and white…
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Here at St Dominic’s we promote healthy eating habits. When your child attends St Dominic’s, around one third of their daily food intake occurs at school. So, with that thought in mind, we encourage families to provide a lunch box with food from each of the five food groups to ensure their child is getting…
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As you would be aware, St Dominic’s is an ALLERGY AWARE School. As an allergy aware school, our aim is to inform staff, students and parents about the risks of allergies as well as provide a supportive environment in which children at risk of anaphylaxis can feel safe. Like all schools, we have a number of…
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Following on from Justin O’Malley’s presentation earlier this week and as you may be aware via communications over the past few years, we have implemented the Keeping Safe Child Protection Curriculum here at St Dominic’s School. It is a government requirement that all schools adopt and implement an appropriate research based child protection program. The Keeping…
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Making sure your child has the necessary skills for future literacy and numeracy development is crucial. During Weeks 4 – 7 of Term 1 your child will be participating in the Department of Education’s state-wide On-entry Assessment Program. The purpose of the program is to provide teachers with an opportunity, early in the year, to…
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I am pleased to provide you with the following details regarding an upcoming incursion in the Year 6 classroom title, ‘In Search of Safety’. The session will be facilitated by presenters from the Red Cross. This incursion has been planned to supplement the following work being completed in HASS this term: Stories of groups of…
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Our Year 3 to 6 Faction Swimming Carnival will be held on Monday, 27th February, at Claremont Aquatic Centre from 10:00am to 2:00pm. This year, Loreto Primary School students will also be joining our competition, however all ribbons and points will be awarded separately. As we have done over recent years, Timing Solutions will once again be providing us with…
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As in previous years, we are wanting to offer our Year 6 students the option to purchase a “Class of 2023” Leaver’s Polo. The students took part in designing a “Class of 2023” image for the back of the school grey and white polo top, and a judging panel has decided on the winning image. The chosen…
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