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Domremy’s light focus brightens hearts and minds
Light-themed projects at Domremy College Five Dock have brightened the minds of gifted students in the Sydney Catholic Schools (SCS) network and provided help to families in Papua New Guinea (PNG) living in energy poverty. Lights for learning With only 20 per cent of PNG’s 10.5 million residents able to access electricity, school students must rely on dangerous and unsustainable sources of fuel – like kerosene, diesel, wood or candles – to study after dark. To help improve the situation, Domremy student volunteers have built 50 solar-powered lights as part of the Origin Energy Foundation’s Solar Buddy light...
New festival shines light on learning
Move over Vivid - there's a new light festival in Sydney! More than 2,000 people attended Domremy College Five Dock’s first-ever Light Festival, complete with a glow bar, silent disco and inspiring light-themed student works. The two-hour event in late June celebrated a term’s worth of learning in STEM, humanities and the arts. Spotlight on learning The college Science labs featured light experiments including open flames, refractions and holograms. Year 9 students at Domremy and Year 5 students from four nearby Catholic primary schools explained what they learnt about the principles of light and architecture while designing model...
Raising healthy young men: Conference explores innovations in boys’ education
Healthy young men help create healthy societies. That was the common message proclaimed by a range of leading educators and industry experts as De Lalle Catholic College Caringbah hosted an innovative conference on boys education on Monday. Attended by primary and secondary educators from Sydney Catholic Schools and beyond, the conference explored contemporary approaches to working with young men, dissecting some of the more pertinent issues relating to boys’ education today. The day featured keynote addresses from renowned sports and exercise medicine physician Dr John Best, and Australian rugby league internationals Aaron Woods and Chris Lawrence. There was also...
