Clubs
4H
Director: Ms Stephanie Alexander
Adventure Club
Coordinator: Ms Dhanelle Cuffy
The Convent High School Adventure Club aims to enhance students' lives by fostering a holistic approach that encourages enjoying the Dominica outdoors, and connecting with nature. We gather to share our outdoor experiences and plan new ones; our wellbeing is important and deserves priority. So in the new academic year, let’s ditch the device and take a hike!
Agápē
Director: Miss Sherisse Robinson
Definition: Agápē means “unconditional love”. It is a love that is pure and true, free of any ulterior motives. This is the love that our God has for us-each and every single one of us.
Aims and Goals: Agape Club is a Christian-based school group. Agape welcomes all students who wish to grow their Christian faith and students who have a desire for spiritual fellowship regardless of their faith or personal beliefs.
This club is also a social and service club that will benefit its members as they make positive impacts by serving others in their schools and communities.
Most importantly, members also learn how to grow their Christian faith through attending regular meetings, which can include: guest speakers, bible study, games, prayer and worship, and fellowship.
Mission: “Spreading the light and love of Christ”
Who is this group for?
Any student of the Convent High School who wants to:
Grow their Christian faith
Learn more about what it means to be a Christian
Spread the good news of the Lord
Has a desire for spiritual fellowship
Big Sister Little Sister
Mentorship Program
Director: Miss Sherisse Robinson
Aims and Goals: The Big Sister Little Sister Mentorship Program aims to develop and expand empowerment and leadership skills in young girls.
This program also aims at fostering sisterhood among our mentoring matches while promoting girls’ physical, social and emotional health.
Only students in Form 4 and 5 are eligible to be Big Sisters (Mentors). The mentees consist of a mixture of students from Form 1 and Grade 6 at St. Martin's Primary School.
Communications Club
Director: Ms Sherri Jeffrey
Mission: To train young women to be independent and precise in thought, word and action in order to develop and enhance intra and interpersonal communication skills.
Vision: A legacy of trained young women who are able to think on their feet, to write effectively, to criticise constructively and deliver superb arguments.
Aim: To educate young women in the art of communication.
Objective: To learn all there is in order to create informed opinions and deliver logical and factual information to all.
Environmental Club
Director: Mr Larenz Wiltshire
Mission Statement: Portray a culture of cleanliness and beautification to students of the Convent High School as well as the community, also to realize that our natural resources are of great importance to our lives and create a society where sustainable use of natural resources is fundamental.
Our main objective is to help the students to acquire a set of values and feelings of concern for the environment and motivation and commitment to participate in environmental maintenance and improvement. We seek to sensitize our students with regards to environmental problems which we are faced with ever so often, pollution being one of the most prominent.
Director: Ms. Natasha Nation
ICT Club
Director: Ms. Natasha Nation
Vision: To enable ICT proficient students, for ICT lies at the core of every organization today. Our vision is also to be more than just observers of technological development. Rather, we must create technological catalysts in our own environment.
Mission: The club aims to improve the ICT skills of its members by nurturing their creative and programming skills, and sharpening their research and presentation skills. The club also aims to promote innovation among its members as they seek out technological solutions to problems that may arise in a school environment
Goals and Objectives
To help students develop an appreciation for the role of ICT in today's society.
To guide members in computer ethics
To develop policies concerning the use of technology at school.
To improve members design skills.
To provide a fun and interactive approach to ICT.
To improve members' programming skills.
To raise awareness and promote the use of technology as a teaching/learning aid.
To improve members' internet authoring skills.
To help students develop as innovative beings who will see problems and create solutions.
To help other students become competent and confident users of ICT through training sessions.
PHP
Perpetual Help Program (PHP)
Established in 2012 after Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Director: Mrs. Seaman-Williams
Assistant Directors: Ms. Dejean & Ms. Robinson
Purpose: To offer affordable breakfast options to students of Convent High School who come to school without breakfast. Also, to maintain its social responsibility to the school community, and the church, by providing charitable services.
Mission: To instill the qualities of charity, responsibility, dedication, and compassion in all members while providing the school community with benevolent services.
Membership:
PHP is open to students of the Convent High School in Forms 1, 2 and 3 at the start of the new academic school year
All members shall pay a mandatory subscription fee of $15.00 XCD per academic school term.
General meetings shall be held on the second Wednesday of every month at 1:15 pm
Members are guided by a monthly roster and is expected to be in the canteen from 7:10 AM
UMOJA
Director: Ms Leandra Lander
Choir
Sign Language
Mission: To inspire young people to be sensitive through communication with members of the hearing impaired/deaf community and to foster an appreciation of Sign language as a means of performing arts which provides opportunities for artistic growth.
Membership is open to all students of the Convent High School, who share the club's goal of promoting awareness of sign language and its use as an alternative expression of performing arts and means of communicating with the hearing impaired community.
The club promotes learning Sign language vocabulary and expressions through artistic performances that will enhance students’ abilities.