CISC Christmas Card Competition 2025: “O Holy Night”

I’m excited to announce the theme for this year’s annual Christmas Card Competition:
“O Holy Night”

This theme invites students to explore the more traditional and spiritual elements of Christmas.
We’re looking for designs that capture the peace, serenity, and reverence of the season.
The winning designs will be displayed on the CISC website and added to our December
newsletter.

Please encourage your students to think creatively about how they can interpret this theme.
Submissions can be created using any medium—digital art, painting, drawing, or mixed media
are all welcome.

The deadline for all submissions is Wednesday 12th November. Further details on submission
guidelines and prizes are the same as last year and shared with you below.
Details
Theme – “O Holy Night”
Entries should be 2D art work or a photograph and can be portrait or landscape.

There are three age categories:
an INFANT category 5-7,
a JUNIOR category (8 up to age 13)
and a SENIOR category (from 14 to 18)

For each entry, schools need to please email a .jpg file of a digital photograph of the work as
an attachment.

File names should be labelled with the school, students name and age
e.g. ‘St Columbas – Mary S – Age 13’

All entries to be sent please via email to info@catholicindependentschools.com by 2pm on
Wednesday 12 November 2025.

Schools can submit as many entries as they wish from each age group but no more than one
entry per pupil.

The entry fee is £15 per school per category (i.e. £45 for an all through school with entries in all
categories or £30 in two categories, £15 in one category)
payable by BACS to Sort Code 40 18 17 and Account Number 64019113, labelling the
transfer “G700 Christmas Card Competition” and your school name please.

Schools must ensure proper, demonstrable consent regarding the submission of pupils’ work to
CISC and this must be available on request by CISC if required. For further information please
see the CISC Privacy Policy on our website.

We look forward to seeing the wonderful and inspiring artwork your students create