ENTRY FOR 2018 IS NOW OPEN! We are delighted to, once again, launch the CISC Poetry Competition for students of CISC member schools. The theme for 2018 is ‘Pentecost’. Details of how to enter can be found in the form below: CISC POETRY COMPETITION 2018 There were some excellent and very thought-provoking poems last year and we […]
CISC and associate schools working internationally for the common good By Jeremy Barnes, Headteacher at All Saints Catholic Primary School, Anfield (Associate CISC Member) This was my fifth visit to our partner school in Waterloo, Sierra Leone, as headteacher of All Saints Catholic Primary School, Anfield. Beginning […]
On Saturday, 3rd February, Year 9, 10 and 11 historians made their way to in Ypres in Belgium to see the battlefields and show their respects to the soldiers, who died in the First World War. The group visited war cemeteries, where pupils and staff laid poppies on the graves, row after row of them, […]
An annual event, Cranmore Live, is always an exciting occasion.
St Mary’s School, Cambridge celebrated Mary Ward Day – marking the birthday of the school’s foundress Mary Ward (1585-1645) – on Tuesday 23 January and welcomed the Rt Rev Alan Hopes, Bishop of East Anglia, to join this year’s celebrations. The Bishop spent time with the school’s Mary Ward scholars and students championing CAFOD’s Power […]
Following a petition from our student Faith That Does Justice Group, Stonyhurst College was delighted to agree to begin the process of resettling a refugee family within our community,
On 22 January, Cardinal Cormac’s family, friends, former Headmasters at Prior Park College, staff, students, parents and alumni came together at Our Lady of Snows Chapel to pay their respects and pray for the Cardinal, who died 1 September 2017. The Chief Celebrant was Bishop Declan, who was accompanied by twelve priests and College Chaplain, […]
The 2018 CISC annual conference took place at the Liverpool Hilton Hotel on Thursday 18 and Friday 19 January. We were delighted to welcome so many colleagues from across our schools, providing a much-needed opportunity to forge new friendships as well as a chance to catch up with old friends and colleagues. Further information and resources […]
How the Daughters of Divine Charity became involved in making a four-part documentary for Channel 5 is still something of a mystery to ourselves. Apparently Fr Christopher Jamieson OSB and Sr Elaine Penrice fsp from the National Vocations Office receive many requests from TV and Radio to ‘roll out religious’ and these are declined. Somehow […]
The Chavagnes Studium (part of Chavagnes International College, a CISC member school in France) is organising a launch event in London for its new LiberalArts degree programme, in collaboration with ICES, the Catholic university of the Vendée, and the Catholic University of Lublin. Presentations by Ferdi McDermott, Professor Anthony O’Hear OBE, Dr Thomas E Conlon, Fr Mark […]