Education is Life
At the St. Dominic Primary School, we believe, as John Dewey (1859-1952) the American education reformer, that ‘Education is not a preparation for life, education is life itself.’
Inspired by this, our motto `Excellence in Education’ is a resounding echo of this very purpose and to which every St. Dominic Primary School student is deeply devoted.
21st Century Skills
Real-life application of knowledge, 21st Century Skills, Project based approach has been the hallmark of the education revolution at the St. Dominic Primary School.
Our PBS values namely: being safe, being independent and being responsible echoes at St. Dominic Primary School and has helped our students evolve into caring and achieving members of society.
These values instilled will blossom them into responsible and global citizens of the revolutionizing world. We have seen ample evidence of cross-culture exposure and internationalism in classrooms and outside. Our students have proudly represented us at various platforms such as spoken words competition, spelling bee, swimming and running events.
On these platforms, our staff works hard along with the parents and is always present to applaud our students in all their activities. We are always with, behind and around them.
St. Dominic Primary School rejoices, celebrates the success of its students and has created a niche for itself in the field of education.
Learner-centric education
The staff of St. Dominic Primary School brings together an exceptional learning community. Our curriculum and practices, based on learner-centric education, strives to build independent, responsible and global citizens. Therefore, we will impart world-class education through the best use of new resources, developing young minds to think, question and create.
Our school aims to fuse the strong cultural fundamentals of society with advanced learning tools acquired from the world over giving education an exciting and dynamic direction.
As we open our doors to each new generation of students, expectations run high as we believe that our students will grow into the stars in our skies.
Every day, every year, we scale new heights, never standing still.
Our Sister Schools
St. Joseph School
Estd.-1875
In 1875 Fr. Nieuwenhuis requested the Prioress of Voorschoten, Holland, to send some sisters to St. Maarten to help with Catholic education. This request was not granted. Fr. Onderwater repeated that request and finally the Prioress decided to send six sisters to St. Maarten.
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Sister Regina Primary School
Estd.-1890
Sister Regina was the first prioress of the Sisters of the Dominican Order on St. Maarten. Sister Regina arrived on the island in 1890. She was a pioneer of Catholic education on St. Maarten. In 1897, Sunday school was started in the then newly built church in Simpson Bay.
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Sister Borgia Elementary School
Estd.-1978
Ms. Charlotte Johanna Wilhelmina Linskens was born on November 1, 1912 in Holland. Her convent name was Sister Borgia. Sr. Borgia arrived on St. Maarten in August of 1964 and became principal of the St. Joseph School. Sr. Borgia became directress of the Pastoor Nieuwenhuis MAVO. She was known to be an excellent teacher.
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Sr. Magda Primary School
Estd.-1978
The Sister Magda Primary School was founded in August 1978. Mr. Wim Scheerder was the founding principal. The school was named after Sister Magda, a Dominican nun who spends 9 years of her life teaching in the Windward Islands.
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Sr. Marie Laurence Primary School
Estd.-1988
The Sister Marie Laurence School was founded in 1988. Six groups of the St. Joseph school were designated as the new Sister Marie Laurence Primary School, named after the reverend sister who served Catholic Education on Sint Maarten for so many years.
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St. Dominic High School
1994
The school was a vision of the Foundation for Catholic Education and St. Dominic Primary School parents, to provide faith-based secondary education where the language of instruction was English.
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Mrs. Jaya Nair – Sewlani
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L.B. Scott Road #209,
South Reward
Sint Maarten
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Taking the interest of the future of St. Maarten into consideration, Mr. Voges, superintendent of the Foundation of Catholic Education, proposed to establish a new school with English as the language of instruction in all groups of the school. This was accepted by the School board in their meeting of June 1987.
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Registration date Compulsory Education for children (Catholic and non-Catholic) that will be 4 years old before October 1, 2024: On-line registration- January 8 to January 31, 2024 (Monday-Friday) Website: www.skos-sxm.org
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