Dominicans' Valletta school marks 60th anniversary

St Albert the Great College recently held activities to mark the 60th anniversary of its foundation, including a Mass celebrated at St Dominic's parish church, Valletta, by the Archbishop and the Dominican provincial Fr Paul Gatt.

The college is currently developing a learning policy that emphasises differentiation and personalised learning within a community context. As part of this process, junior and senior students at the college collaborated together in an activity which saw them involved in identifying ways how they learn best. This was also part of a process of enhancing students' voice within the college as part of a Comenius Project the school is currently involved in together with partners in 13 countries.

Such a learning policy aims to identify how learning can best take place through pedagogical changes and student empowerment over their own learning. This process takes into consideration the different perspectives of all stakeholders in the learning process, including students, parents and teachers.

The school was set up in 1948, when the Maltese Dominican province took over the former Flores College following discussions with its owners. The school was initially housed in a historic building of the Knights in Old Bakery Street, but to cater for the increasing number of students, the present college building was built in 1961 on the site of what was formerly Scicluna's Bank in the same street.