Bullying Awareness Week
Lots of activities are taking place this week to raise awareness about issues surrounding bullying. A report will appear here in due course. Meanwhile, check out photos in our album here (being updated as the week progresses)
Entries by St. Columba's College News Archive
Walsh Memorial Concert
The Reverend B.W.N. Walsh Memorial Concert was held last night in the Chapel to mark the Walsh Fund for restoring the organ. It was a superb evening of high-class music-making, particularly by the ‘headline act’, the Old Columban Co…
Warden’s Thoughts 3
[ General ]The Warden’s blog is now online at https://stcolumbasweb.wordpress.com. It will soon be embedded on this site.
October 10th 2016
There is no doubt that St. Columba’s is an excellent school, but our uniqueness in the Irish lands…
Pupils’ Council 2016-17
The following have been elected to the Pupils’ Council for the coming year, after this morning’s elections:
VI: Ralph Sweetman-Sutton, Courtney McKee
V: Sean Cooper, Kitty Morris
IV: Toby Green, Isabelle Townsend
III: Daniel Ayoad…
House Debating
The first round of the House Debating competition took place last Saturday.
Senior House Debating Competition
Motion: This House believes in the death penalty
Glen’s Ji Woo Park, Harry Oke-Osanyintolu and Alexander Russell narrow…
Weekend Activities
Great activity this past weekend! On Saturday we had our Open Day which was very well attended despite the inclement weather in the morning. That evening we had the first round of the house debating competition and last night there were …
Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Awards
Yesterday Tania Stokes from Third Form was presented with her third prize in the Junior section of the annual national Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award. Her poem, Metaphorest, is below. Pictured, Tania and the other winners with the poet and …
Installation of the Warden
At a full Matins service this morning, Mr Mark Boobbyer was formally installed as the 14th Warden of the College in a ceremony led by the Chairman of the Fellows, Mr Christopher Shiell. The Warden read out the formal statement agreeing to h…
Open Day
Welcome to all visitors to our Open Day this morning.
Here is the presentation showing in the Lower Argyle, should you wish to catch up on it later.
European Day of Languages
Every year around this time in September the European Day of Languages is celebrated. It is an ideal occasion to raise the awareness of modern languages and the department has organised many different activities for all age groups. There ar…
Junior Cultural Trip to London
We are delighted to annouce details of this year’s Junior Cultural Trip to London. The trip will take place over the January Exodus (Friday Jan 27th to Monday 30th Jan) and is open to pupils in Forms II, III and IV, but is stric…
Rugby in St. Columba’s – Start of Season Report
The school rugby season is under way with training taking place on Mondays, Thursdays, Saturdays and alternate Wednesdays. The first games of the season have also taken place, with some of our pupils experiencing their first taste of competi…
Warden’s Thoughts 2
[ General ]On Monday night St. Columba’s lost one of its own. Orla McCooey left in 2015, a young lady who had bravely battled her illness for many years and finally lost the battle. Or perhaps she won it because she died with great dignity, with…
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Recently the Warden, Mr Boobbyer, received a start of term message from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and anti-apartheid campaigner. It reads:
‘I want to wish you and all your school the very best for …
Walsh Memorial Concert, Thursday 13th October
On Thursday 13th October the Walsh Memorial Concert will be held in the Chapel. This promises to be a lovely hour of music to recognise the contribution of the Reverend B.W.N. Walsh Memorial Fund which was set up in the name of our former C…
An Taisce Clean Coasts Big Beach Clean
An Taisce’s Clean Coasts Big Beach Clean weekend took place on the 16th, 17th and 18th of September.
Last year nearly 800,000 volunteers in 94 countries removed 8,164 tonnes of marine litter from the world’s oceans.For the second con…
Junior Certificate Results 2016
Junior Certificate 2016
Congratulations to our Transition Year pupils who received their Junior Certificate results last week. We had 42 candidates who sat 335 papers. 87% of all papers were taken at higher level.
The breakdown of grades…
Funeral of Orla McCooey
The funeral of Old Columban Orla McCooey will take place in the College Chapel at 2pm on Saturday 24th September.
Those attending are advised that there is likely to be a large attendance, and space is limited, and they should arri…
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