News

St Dominic’s celebrates the best exam results in the school’s history!

We were absolutely delighted to congratulate our 2019 Year 11 cohort for the best results in the school’s history: –  27% of pupils achieved 5 or more GCSE’s at a grade 4 or above, whilst 45% of pupils attained 5 …
20th September 2019

Awards ceremony!

We were delighted to welcome family and friends of KS3 pupils to our annual awards ceremony. Pupils were all awarded certificates to reflect their hard work throughout the year and Year 9 pupils received various awards related to the curriculum …
30th July 2019

Sports Day 2019!

At the schools annual Sports Day we had the privilege and honour of hosting sporting personality Danielle Waterman. Danielle, also known as Nollie, is an esteemed and well-respected rugby player who has made 82 appearances for England. Nollie, who represented Team …
30th July 2019

Activities Week at St Dominic’s!

Last week, pupils took part in a variety of fun activities both in and out of school as a reward for an excellent academic year. The behaviour reward trips visited LEGOLAND, Portsmouth and Chessington World of Adventures, pupils (and staff!) …
22nd July 2019

New Performing Arts Centre build – updated Time-Lapse Video

Click on the below link to view the latest time-lapse video of the Performing Arts Centre build, which shows progress up to 2 July.   Time-lapse video 020719
17th July 2019

Kids Day Out

KidsOut and the Rotary Club work in partnership to take 25,000 children on fun days out, to help them create wonderful memories to cherish for a lifetime. Our pupils in KS2 were a part of this and went to ‘Kids …
17th July 2019

Residential trips!

A number of pupils recently participated in residential trips to Phoenix House. Our first trip was to Frensham Ponds. We made the most of the glorious weather and took a picnic, which the students and pupils really enjoyed. It wasn’t …
17th July 2019

Closure of the Residential provision at the end of the summer term 2020

We have received the formal approval letter from the Regional Schools Commissioner to close the Residential provision and increase the capacity for day pupils/students from 110 to 150, at St Dominic’s School. We will now be working towards closure of …
28th June 2019

St Dominic’s gains unicef’s Bronze ‘Rights Committed’ Award

We have been busy working in partnership with Unicef on their ‘Rights Respecting Schools’ initiative, and are delighted that we have just been awarded Bronze-‘Rights Committed’.  We are now working towards Silver-‘Rights Aware’. The Rights Respecting Schools Award uses the …
21st June 2019

RUGBY PERSONALITY DANIELLE WATERMAN TO ATTEND SPORTS DAY 21 JUNE!

Rugby Sports Personality Danielle Waterman is coming to our Sports Day tomorrow, Friday 21st June from 11:00am to 2:00pm. Danielle, also known as Nollie, is an esteemed and well respected rugby player and has made 82 appearances for England.  She …
20th June 2019

A trip to Kew Gardens

Ospreys class have been studying ‘living things’ this term, so they had a trip to Kew Gardens after all their hard work! Everyone had a great day, below are a few photo highlights:  
4th June 2019

Plant life!

Our Year 8 pupils have been planting seeds to learn about plant reproduction. This culminated in putting together a greenhouse without any instructions! Pupils worked together collaboratively to build the greenhouse to house their newly planted crops. We are looking …
4th June 2019