Video of Whispering House
Coady Architects have produced a short video which gives an excellent account of the development of Whispering House in 2018-19, showing with drone footage how it fits beautifully into the centre of the College campus.
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Warden’s Sermon
Last night a small House group attended Evensong, and the Warden gave the first sermon of the school year. You can listen to this below:
The New Term
At last, after many months, we are ready to welcome almost 340 pupils back (some, of course, for the first time) to the College campus in the coming days. These months have been strange for everyone, but we are truly looking forward to re-establishing some sense of normality: to excited friends meeting up again after […]
Warden’s Blog Post
August 21st 2020 If you are not willing to keep learning then it is time to give up. I have learned a lot in the last few weeks. At the start of June the school was subject to a number of allegations of racism from former and present pupils and it was obviously a difficult […]
Race review: College statement
On Sunday, May 31st, St. Columba’s College was contacted by a former pupil of the College, who bravely shared her experiences of racism while attending the school. Her actions motivated other people, both former and current pupils, to share similar experiences. We thank them for having the courage to bring these matters to our attention. The […]
Joshua Mu Yang, RIP
The College community has been rocked by the news over the weekend of the passing of one of our First Form Tibradden pupils, Joshua Yang. He had been fighting an aggressive form of cancer in Crumlin Hospital for over two months but he eventually succumbed to his illness on Saturday. We are so incredibly proud […]
Crash Club Debate
“Crash Club Debate is a politics debating club where we, a group of 15 Fifth Formers, discuss current affairs, political and social issues. Over the past few weeks we have held virtual debates through Google Meet. At the beginning of each week we chose a topic that interests all members of the club. We then […]
Warden David Gibbs, RIP.
Today the College community mourns as we hear of the death this morning of former Warden, David Gibbs, at the age of 93, in County Laois, (where he and his wife Sally had retired to on leaving the College in 1988). He became Warden in 1974, the first layman to hold the office, and in the […]
College Prefects 2020-21
This morning in the online ‘Assembly’ the Warden announced Prefect appointments for the next academic year. Congratulations to the following: Éile Ní Chianáin (Senior Prefect), Gioia Doenhoff (Second Prefect), Peter zu Bentheim, Sinead Cleary, Raphaela Ihuoma, Stella Jacobs, Charlotte Moffitt, Aiyuni O’Grady, Timothy Otway-Norwood, Oliver Townshend, Fintan Walsh, Oscar Yan.
2020 RIAI Public Choice Award
We’re delighted that our beautiful new development, Whispering House, is on the shortlist for the RIAI Public Choice Award. Many congratulations to the architects, Coady Architects. Now in their 31st year, the RIAI Awards are the premier architectural awards in Ireland. The RIAI Awards recognise excellence in design and the contribution made by architecture to society for […]
Form Prizes 2020
The following pupils have been awarded Form Prizes based on the quality of their work throughout the academic year (including the ‘remote’ learning this term). Congratulations to: Form I Keelin Bradley-Brady Carlotta Castagna Alexander Fought Lucas Weber Form II Ekaterina Dementyeva Elizabeth Hart Noah Kutner Rachel Shaw Calvin She Form III Kate Higgins Emily McCarthy […]
Poster Competition results
Ms Murphy and Ms Cullen write: “Well done to everyone who entered the June Programme Poster Competition on hand-washing. We received excellent entries which can all be seen on Firefly here (pupil/parent log-in required). The overall winner was Isabel Warnock – featured picture (Form III). Runners-up: Jamie Green (Form III), Elizabeth Hart (Form II) and […]
Final Artist Talks
Ms Murphy writes: “We had our last virtual Artist Talk yesterday evening with animator Daniel McGuire. Thank you so much for all the time you spent chatting to pupils. He spoke about different colleges to study animation in Ireland (Bally) & abroad, portfolio tips, what he does as a GC generalist, different jobs in animation […]
Voices of Poetry 2020
In 2020, the annual Voices of Poetry evening moved online. Normally, we would be round a single spotlight in the Big Schoolroom listening to words in different languages from all over the world. This time, words were sent from all over the world in, to be gathered virtually in this recording. Many thanks to Mr […]
Virtual Sports’ Day Film
While we couldn’t maintain the traditions of a normal Sports’ Day this year, we did move it online… check it all out in this film. Sincere thanks to Mrs Johnson for organising the day, Ms Thompson for putting the film together, Reverend Owen for lots of photographs, and all pupils, parents and staff who participated. […]
‘The Submarine’, June 2020
Well done to all those who contributed to the final edition of The Submarine for this academic year: click here to access and download a copy. First Formers Rory O’Dowd, Hal Somerville and Alexander Fought write about their grandparents. Fifth Former Maybelle Rainey reports on forest fires in the Hortland Bog in North Kildare and […]
The Social Distance Cycle
Sixth Former Thady McKeever and his friend Joe Gordon have decided to cycle to every GAA club in their home county, Louth, (a total journey of 260km) for Cancer Research Ireland and Purple House Cancer Support. We are all greatly affected by cancer and Purple House is closely linked to the school (it is the […]
Results of Sports’ Day 2020
Mrs Johnson thanks all who participated in the first-ever SCC Virtual Sports’ Day on Wednesday. It was great to see so many contributions from the Columban community (including family members) from around the world. A film of the day is being put together, and will be available here before long. (featured photo from last year, […]
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