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11-Feb-2019
Readon 2019 Today a Reader, tomorrow a Leader!
Well done to our Key Stage Three pupils who have raised £2000 this year for the school’s annual Readon campaign designed to support NICFC. This year’s total was boosted by a huge effort from our John Paul II pupils whose idea of having a sponsored school jumper day in December added more than £500 to our total.
This superb sum builds on donations previously raised throughout the school’s long association with Readon. As a school we have now raised considerably more than £20,000 for Children’s Cancer Charity. Suzanne O’Loughlin, the representative of NICFC came to school assembly today to reiterate the benefits that the money raised by the Dominican pupils in helping the families of children diagnosed with cancer in N. Ireland. She spoke of her amazement at the amount raised by a school of our size and for the culture of reading that exists within the school.
Pupils were encouraged to read for pleasure at the end of last term and over the Christmas period and pupils ravenously read books from home too to meet the Readon challenge.
Suzanne explained how a cancer diagnosis affects a whole family and how NICFC aims to offer support for the wider family in the case of a cancer diagnosis. She explained how the Dominican efforts would fund four weekend residentials in Daisy Lodge or provide more than 50 hours of specialist care.
Very well done to every single Dominican pupil in Years 8-10 and their families and friends for supporting this important initiative and for the fantastic sum raised as a consequence of all that reading.
Today a Reader: Tomorrow a Leader!
This superb sum builds on donations previously raised throughout the school’s long association with Readon. As a school we have now raised considerably more than £20,000 for Children’s Cancer Charity. Suzanne O’Loughlin, the representative of NICFC came to school assembly today to reiterate the benefits that the money raised by the Dominican pupils in helping the families of children diagnosed with cancer in N. Ireland. She spoke of her amazement at the amount raised by a school of our size and for the culture of reading that exists within the school.
Pupils were encouraged to read for pleasure at the end of last term and over the Christmas period and pupils ravenously read books from home too to meet the Readon challenge.
Suzanne explained how a cancer diagnosis affects a whole family and how NICFC aims to offer support for the wider family in the case of a cancer diagnosis. She explained how the Dominican efforts would fund four weekend residentials in Daisy Lodge or provide more than 50 hours of specialist care.
Very well done to every single Dominican pupil in Years 8-10 and their families and friends for supporting this important initiative and for the fantastic sum raised as a consequence of all that reading.
Today a Reader: Tomorrow a Leader!
11-Feb-2019
The JP II Awards night was celebrated on Thursday 7th February in St. Peter’s Church, Belfast with the Living Youth team and our young people were presented with their awards and commended on their superb efforts over the past 18 months by Bishop Noel Treanor.
Social Justice in action: Dominican College John Paul II Awards go from strength to strength..
Well done to the ten Year 14 pupils who received their Gold John Paul 2nd Award medals at a special presentation last week; this builds on the success of previous Gold Medal winners and demonstrates the growth and success of this initiative within Dominican College. To receive a Gold Award a pupil must complete 40 hours of voluntary work. We also had one Silver Award Winner for whom the minimum was 28 hours of voluntary service.
The JP II Awards night was celebrated on Thursday 7th February in St. Peter’s Church, Belfast with the Living Youth team and our young people were presented with their awards and commended on their superb efforts over the past 18 months by Bishop Noel Treanor.
Our own chaplain Fr Raymond was there in full support too!
Students got involved in a range of activities in their Parish and in school which encouraged them to give back to their communities. Activities ranged from trips to Lourdes, helping out with charity collections and coffee mornings for several charities in their parish, and organising various fundraising initiatives in school for charities such as SVP, as well as becoming involved in both school and parish liturgy where appropriate.
Each student displayed faith in action in their respective volunteering endeavours, representing each of our shared Christian values.
Congratulating the pupils, Miss Anderson and Miss Smyth, the John Paul Awards co-ordinators, spoke glowingly about how these twelve pupils had each shown great commitment to their community and local parishes in their voluntary work.
Commending the Dominican pupils, Bishop Treanor presented the Year 14 pupils with their gold and silver medals and certificates praising their dedication and commitment to the goals of social justice. Bishop Treanor told the Dominican pupils:
“You have all pushed yourselves in the pursuit of this award. The John Paul II awards are all about young people giving back to the communities and parishes that have nourished and nurtured them and you have brought great joy in the incredible gift of your time, commitment and energy. I hope that you will continue in your endeavours and that you will inspire younger pupils in Dominican to follow in your faith footsteps”.
Well done to Miss Anderson and Miss Smyth for all her work in leading and co-ordinating the work of the pupils his year.
10-Feb-2019
Dominican College Myanmar: An update on our fundraising efforts
As a way of recognising the 50th anniversary of boys joining our school community in 1968, it was decided to support a Dominican School in Myanmar as part of our school charity work this year.
Sr. Lucina described how this came about:
To celebrate this Golden Jubilee is important, but after a year of celebrating the centenary of the school something different is demanded. One very appropriate idea emerged – could we form a link with a co-ed Dominican school in a very different part of the world, who could benefit from our annual fundraising, as we and our present pupils could mutually benefit from broadening our horizons through our contact with them and another country and culture?
Through the mother house of the Dominican Order in Rome, we are now in touch with a small school in Mandalay, Myanmar, which may be young in years, but has so much in common with DCP. It is small now, as we were back then and, like us, it is co-ed, welcoming pupils from different traditions, Catholic and Buddhist. It is struggling, as we did for so long.
The official name of the school is Dominican, St Martin de Porres’ Boarding School, founded in 2014. At present there are 103 students, in four levels, 44 boys and 59 girls, approximately half Buddhist and half Catholic. The pupils are 14+ years old. These pupils go to government schools during the day, and to Dominican at night, where 10 teachers help to prepare them for university and other higher education. The final grade, which is essential for university admission, is very difficult to attain.
Acknowledging those in need and reaching out in support continues to be a vital part of our Dominican ethos and we were delighted today to receive an update from Mandalay about the real difference our fundraising efforts are beginning to make.
The school recently sent the school £2,500 which included school donations, some of the beach walk donations and some donations from the the Justgiving page. Click here or copy and paste the link into your browser to view.
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/domincan-college-portstewart
Fr Hilario offers his sincere thanks for all our efforts as staff, pupils and parents to date:
“On behalf of the social centre in Mandalay, I would like to thank you for your donations. With your amount of money, we can do many things for the students. It might be a small amount for you but your generosity helps us a lot and many students here. Since many of the students are very poor, they come to study with us without paying or rather cannot afford to pay just a little amount of money.
This year is the fourth year that the school is running and until now the school has to rely on the Province and donations totally. Therefore, we count you as one of our benefactors of the school. We really appreciate your help and we really thank you for all your effort. I would like to beg you to keep on helping us. Without your aid, the running of the school would be impossible.”
On behalf of all our students thank you very much.
Fr. Hilario
Sr. Lucina described how this came about:
To celebrate this Golden Jubilee is important, but after a year of celebrating the centenary of the school something different is demanded. One very appropriate idea emerged – could we form a link with a co-ed Dominican school in a very different part of the world, who could benefit from our annual fundraising, as we and our present pupils could mutually benefit from broadening our horizons through our contact with them and another country and culture?
Through the mother house of the Dominican Order in Rome, we are now in touch with a small school in Mandalay, Myanmar, which may be young in years, but has so much in common with DCP. It is small now, as we were back then and, like us, it is co-ed, welcoming pupils from different traditions, Catholic and Buddhist. It is struggling, as we did for so long.
The official name of the school is Dominican, St Martin de Porres’ Boarding School, founded in 2014. At present there are 103 students, in four levels, 44 boys and 59 girls, approximately half Buddhist and half Catholic. The pupils are 14+ years old. These pupils go to government schools during the day, and to Dominican at night, where 10 teachers help to prepare them for university and other higher education. The final grade, which is essential for university admission, is very difficult to attain.
Acknowledging those in need and reaching out in support continues to be a vital part of our Dominican ethos and we were delighted today to receive an update from Mandalay about the real difference our fundraising efforts are beginning to make.
The school recently sent the school £2,500 which included school donations, some of the beach walk donations and some donations from the the Justgiving page. Click here or copy and paste the link into your browser to view.
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/domincan-college-portstewart
Fr Hilario offers his sincere thanks for all our efforts as staff, pupils and parents to date:
“On behalf of the social centre in Mandalay, I would like to thank you for your donations. With your amount of money, we can do many things for the students. It might be a small amount for you but your generosity helps us a lot and many students here. Since many of the students are very poor, they come to study with us without paying or rather cannot afford to pay just a little amount of money.
This year is the fourth year that the school is running and until now the school has to rely on the Province and donations totally. Therefore, we count you as one of our benefactors of the school. We really appreciate your help and we really thank you for all your effort. I would like to beg you to keep on helping us. Without your aid, the running of the school would be impossible.”
On behalf of all our students thank you very much.
Fr. Hilario
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