CISC Newsletter – September 2021
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Christmas Card Competition 2021
I can hardly believe I’m already mentioning the C word but it’s that time again and the CISC Christmas card competition 2021 is open for entries! Our theme this year: O Holy Night! Closing date: Friday 12th November I’m looking forward to having another bumper year of entries… but not so much the very difficult […]
Good Energy Webinar: Thursday 14 October
In collaboration with our Supporting Sponsors Powerful Allies, we are running a free webinar on ‘Good Energy’. What is a good energy deal? What is a good price for LED solutions? What is a good way to reduce your school’s carbon footprint? These questions and more will be explored by Powerful Allies and there will […]
St Columba’s College in St Albans becomes a co-educational school
CISC member, St Columba’s College in St Albans, has become a co-educational school, after girls started in Reception, Prep 1, Prep 2 and the Lower Sixth on Monday 6 September. The independent Catholic day school announced its move to co-education last year and welcomed its first girls into Reception back in January. Girls will also […]
Hard earned and richly deserved results for GCSE and A Level pupils
Results days are always such a heightened experience and perhaps no more so than this year. Since the GCSE and A Level classes of 2021 embarked upon their academic courses they have experienced two full terms of on-line learning and various hybrids in between, as well as coping with the emotional challenges of being isolated […]
CISC Poetry Competition Winning Entries
Thank you to all who entered our poetry competition this year on the theme of ‘Uncertainty and Opportunity’. The standard, as ever, was extremely high and it was wonderful to see the variety of poetic expression and interpretation that the theme engendered. The competition was judged by Nick Perry, a screenwriter and playwright who has […]
CISC Newsletter – June 21
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St Columba’s pupils turn red for REDS4VEDS Day
Pupils and staff in the Prep School celebrated REDS4VEDS Day to raise awareness of Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (VEDS) and to support their fellow pupil Hugo Whatton, who has Vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. The whole Prep School wore red and took part in a 30-minute sponsored silence. VEDS is a rare genetic condition that causes faulty collagen, […]
Let us go to God’s House
Robert O’Brien, Principal of Blanchelande College in Guernsey shares news of a new Ascension Day tradition… Due to the reopening of our Sixth Form (after a decade of closure) and the rise in numbers of pupils that we have been blessed with (we now have 435 boys and girls), this year we have had the […]
Good Energy Webinar: Thursday 17 June 10.30am
In collaboration with our Supporting Sponsors Powerful Allies, we are running a free webinar on ‘Good Energy’. What is a good energy deal? What is a good price for LED solutions? What is a good way to reduce your school’s carbon footprint? These questions and more will be explored by Powerful Allies and there will […]