Latest News – Academic
The latest academic news from the College.
Junior Certificate & JCSA Results 2017
Congratulations to all our pupils who received their Junior Certificate…
Leaving Certificate Results 2017
Congratulations to our candidates who received their Leaving…
CanSat Team Win Silver in Bremen
Congratulations to the St. Columba's College CANSAT team who…
Transition Year English Evening
On Tuesday last we held the 24th annual TY English Evening in the Big Schoolroom. The guest speaker this time was Professor Colin Graham, Head of the English Department at Maynooth University.Eight pieces from the recent Work Portf...
TY prize presentation evening
The final presentation evening of the TY year was held last night in the BSR. Mr McCarthy gave a review of the year and commended all on their positive attitude and considerable achievements. All told it was an extremely productive and enj...
TY Modern Languages evening
The sixth annual Transition Year Evening for Modern Languages was held on Tuesday evening in the BSR. Twelve pupils gave presentations in French and Spanish on subjects including La moda española, Le terrorisme en France, Le pa...
Victorious Cansat Team Prepare for Europe
The St. Columba's College CanSat Crew, ably led by Ms. Hennessy, recently won the national final and will represent Ireland in the European final in Bremen, Germany, next June. The team update us on their preparations for the European fina...
Form Prizes 2016-17
FORM PRIZES 2016-17 (these are based on the results of College examinations so far this year).
Congratulations to:-
SIXTH FORM: Douglas Boyd Crotty, Ciara Gumsheimer, Juliane Hastedt, Courtney McKee, Rafael Mendes.
FIFTH FORM: Sasha C...
Congratulations to:-
SIXTH FORM: Douglas Boyd Crotty, Ciara Gumsheimer, Juliane Hastedt, Courtney McKee, Rafael Mendes.
FIFTH FORM: Sasha C...
Transition Year Academic Prize 2017
Congratulations to Catherine Butt, from Hollypark House, on winning the Transition Year Academic Prize last night. Catherine fought off stiff competition from four of her peers from Form IV, presenting her recent research on theories of pe...
CanSat project
Many congratulations to Ms Hennessy and her team…
Ciara Gumsheimer
[ General ]Many congratulations to Ciara Gumsheimer who has been offered a place to read Economics at Downing College, Cambridge. Ciara sat an entrance exam and attended two interviews, before being accepted for one of the most competitive courses at ...
Debating final
[ General ]Ciara Murray reviews last Saturday's debating final.
Saturday nights riveting Senior House Debating final ended in victory for Gwynn’s Douglas Boyd-Crotty, Henry Carroll and Ivan Moffit. Hollypark is delighted to have made it to the ...
Saturday nights riveting Senior House Debating final ended in victory for Gwynn’s Douglas Boyd-Crotty, Henry Carroll and Ivan Moffit. Hollypark is delighted to have made it to the ...
TY History
[ Academic ]On Monday, 5th December, Ms Duggan's Transition Year History students took part in a project where we learned about an emblematic battle of the 1916 Rising, the Battle of Mount Street Bridge (http://mountstreet1916.ie), partially through u...
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 ...
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 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...
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...
Leaving Certificate Class of 2016
The Guidance Counsellor, Mr Humphrey Jones, has been busy collating information on the destinations and future plans of our most recent Form VI leavers. After their record breaking Leaving Certificate points average of 473 – most lik...
Leaving Certificate results 2016
Many congratulations to our Leaving Certificate candidates, who this morning received their results, achieving a new College record of an average of 473 points (one more than last year's record). Two pupils received the maximum 625 points....
