Entries from April 2010 ↓

Today, the Junior and Senior Infants, First and Second Class had their sports in the morning in the Gym.  Third Class to Sixth Class went to the UCC Sports grounds at the Mardyke at 12 noon to join the Secondary School for the annual Sports Day.  Each class had a number of races including sprints, three-legged, [...]

The Romanian Ambassador to Ireland is to visit CBC Prep School on Friday 7 May.  Mr Iulian Buga is helping to celebrate Europe Day, 9 May.  For more information on Europe day, click the following link: Europe Day.

Again this year, a much bigger number of pupils applied for places in CBC Secondary School than the school could possibly cater for.  The large numbers are whittled down by applying the school’s entry criterea.  Prep School boys are lucky, as they are the first to be offered places.  This year again, the entire Sixth Class [...]

This is a busy week for Sixth Class.  They arrived back from Bath on Monday; today they made their Confirmation in St Patrick’s, and on Saturday they will sit for the Secondary School Assessment test.  Below are some pictures of Confirmation Day: Boys from the Fourth and Fifth Class Choir and musicians from the Secondary School [...]

The Sixth Class Bath touring group returned to CBC last night at 10.00pm after an eventful four day tour.  The following photos show some of the tour
activities.

The Sixth Class rugby tour to Bath went ahead despite the grounding of aircraft and the cancellation of the flight from Cork to Bath.  The Sixth Class parents took the initiative in trying to arrange for the class to go by ferry when the flight was cancelled.  Eventually, tickets were found to be available for [...]

Adam McCarthy’s drawing, Sixth Class:

The Sixth Class rugby tour to Bath will take place this weekend.  The class will meet on Friday at 1.00pm at Cork Airport, flying out at 3.15pm. After arrival in Bath and settling in to the tour accommodation, the boys will take a walking tour of the city, followed by dinner and a trip to the [...]

The Easter Rugby Camp, held from Tuesday to Friday this week, was a great success.  Seventy-five pupils in all participated: a total of sixty-eight from CBC and seven of their friends from other schools.  The first day was a bit wet and all the lads went home covered in mud, but the rest of the [...]