- Written by: Ekta Thawani -
As you all know, an indoor games took place last month. What exactly are the indoor games? Well, these games are chess, checkers, and dominoes. Four schools have created a team for each sport and these schools competed in a competition. This competition took place on February 29, 2008 at the Milton Peters College’s Gym from 4:00 PM till 6:00 PM. The schools that were going against each other were the St. Maarten Academy, The Vocational School, St. Dominic High School, and Milton Peters College. A total of 37 students participated in this competition. The winners of each game are as follows:
- Chess – St. Dominic High School
- Checkers – St. Maarten Academy
- Dominoes – Milton Peters College
Each game was controlled by three teachers. The dominoes’ players were allowed to choose their own set of rules. One person from each activity was chosen to be the winner excluding dominoes. For dominoes, two students won. The prizes were movie tickets. We would like to thank all the teachers very much especially Ms. Sinatra Rouse. I think everyone enjoyed themselves, and everyone had a great time.
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-Written by: Mr. P. Swart, Teacher-
 After a short and smooth 50-minute flight, we arrived at the Pole Caraibes Aéroport in Guadeloupe on Sunday afternoon in the middle of a moderate rain shower. There is a reason why this island is so green! All nineteen students were met at the airport by their counterpart for the duration of the week: their correspondents, and went home with them pour s’installer. Mrs.Myncke, Mrs.Rouse and Mr.Swart were picked up by the professeurs (‘profs’) at whose homes they would be staying. M. Hellisey, the initiator of the exchange project, was present and supervising. M Ollivier, Mme.Darnal and Mme Poulet were also at the airport. For a detailed day to day report click read more.
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-Written by: Mrs. J. Sommers, Principal-
Traditionally our 4th Form students organize a Christmas lunch for our well respected senior-citizens on St. Maarten. Once  again the approximately 75 guests were welcomed by a special committee of students who guided them to the gym, which was transformed into a real restaurant. Lots of food and snacks were served, while at the same time students made sure that nobody would feel bored. Besides dancing, the singing of the Christmas carrols all together was received enthusiastically. Enclosed you see a beautiful picture of how the generation gap is closed by "dancing the Caribbean Christmas" way. If this doesn't bring everybody into the mood of Christmas.... Giving back to the group of St. Maarten people, who truly deserve our respect, must make you feel extremely proud! Congratulations, 4th Form students, for organizing such a wonderful event!
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 Vacation time is coming! therefore the movieclub 'Cinema Extravaganza' is taking a break until January. But we will show the last movie this year on Friday December 14.
Make sure you come and see this movie! We start at 2:00 pm in room 2. For an overview of the movie we are showing, just go to our 'Cinema Extravaganza' website (can be found under Activities). You can also simply click on our logo.
Hope to see you there!!!
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The Windward Island Inter-Scholastic Games |
-Written by Luigi Spadaro-
On November 31 through December 2nd 2007, a team of students went to St. Eustatius to represent St. Maarten in the 2nd ever  Windward island games. The Students from our school, were going to represent St. Maarten in the swimming division. In Statia, they were hosted by the friendly people of that island. The Swimmers, along with the teams, stayed in the islands only highly high school, Gwendolyn van Putten School. St. Dominic  swimmers, along with most other teams, came back victorious, taking all gold for every heat. Nigel came back with gold for the 50m and 100m breast stroke, he also had a silver for 50m back crawl, Leandre came back with gold for 50m freestyle, and also a silver for 100m freestyle, and Luigi came back with gold for 100m freestyle, and 50m back crawl and also a silver for 100m breast stroke. Jesus came back with silvers for 50m breast stroke and freestyle. The entire team won gold in the 200m freestyle relay. Over all the trip was a success, one they will never forget.
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May we present to you: the participants of our LessonThon.
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RED House
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BLUE House
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GREEN House
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YELLOW House
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Ekta Thawani
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Mahalia Hooker
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Akilah Meulens
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Rajeev Idnani
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Christalina Laguerre
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Kashif Sams
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Kyle DaCosta
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Lauralie Peterson
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Aisha Hassel
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Jessica Rogers
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Mary Romero-Spadaro
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Ambroise Richardson
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Giselle Greaux
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Abrianna Richardson
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Marvin Washington
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Ashlee Richardson
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Eric Scott
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Iesha Harrigan
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Laura Williams
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Ereika Scott
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Luigi Spadaro
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Jamila Oliver
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Giampiero Maietti
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Nicole Cooks
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These students will be following classes for 24 hours straight! These students are sponsored and the proceeds will be used to furnish the new school building. From Friday December 7th (7:30am) until Saturday December 8th (7:30am) they will get theoretical and practical lessons around the clock.
If you are interested, you can buy breakfast tickets for Saturday morning and see how the students did.
These are available for $5 or Naf10 at the school.
For photo's of the participants click here.
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'Foundation Cooperative Funds' funds new Drama/Dance/Music classroom |
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The Staff and students of St. Dominic High School are extremely grateful for the large donation that is made by Stichting Samenwerkende fondsen (Netherlands). After the school started with its African Drum Project, also sponsord by this same Foundation earlier this year, it was decided that the school will receive additional funds for this unique classroom. Not only will the classroom be used during regular school hours, but will also be open to the community for dance, drama and music workshops/classes after school. We are looking forward to the opening of the building and will try to do our utmost to let the St. Maarten people make use of these facilities. Thanks once more to Foundation Cooperative Funds.
Click on their logo to go to their website.
On the same website you can also see their initiative to sponsor the St. Maarten DARE project. It includes nice pictures of the DARE workshops held at schools.
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