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On the second Thursday of each month, Fr Tom Walsh comes to the Preparatory School to say Mass in the Hall.  The whole Prep School attends.  This Thursday, it was the turn of First Class to do the readings and  all the other tasks associated with the celebration of Mass.

The Preparatory School boys had a visit from the Blackrock Observatory on Tuesday 6 February.  Ms Frances McCarthy brought the inflatable dome which was set up in the Secondary School Hall.  Each class, from Junior Infants to Sixth, had a forty minutes session in the dome where they saw shows on the sun, moon and stars [...]

Cork’s Lord Mayor, Councillor Terry Shannon and his wife Ursula visited CBC on Friday last.  As usual, every boy in the school had the opportunity to see and hear the city’s First Citizen.  The Prep and Secondary schools made up an audience of 1,000 as they waited in the Hall for Councillor Shannon’s arrival.  William [...]

CBC was among a number of Cork schools invited to send a contingent of pupils to the city centre to view the royal visit this afternoon.  Nine boys from the Prep School accompanied by about 100 secondary school boys and five teachers walked to the assembly point, Christ Church on the South Main Street, around [...]

Many of the boys who will start Junior Infants Class next August came along to CBC this morning to spend a couple of hours with Mrs Lowry.  Their parents stayed in the classroom until the boys settled down, which did not take very long.  Then there was a morning of fun with stories, games and [...]

Rachel Sarah Murphy, who plays Jo Fahey in the RTE soap Fair City, visited CBC today.  Her company, the Irish Film Academy, recently sponsored the touring jersey which the Sixth Class boys wore on their tour to Bath.  Rachel Sarah called in on the Sixth Class boys as she was told that they had a [...]

A few weeks before Ireland’s famous victory over England in the Cricket World Cup, a cricket match had been planned between CBC Prep School and Scoil Cholmcille CBS, Blarney Street.  The match took place this morning at Lansdowne in glorious sunshine.  The fact that cricket has been very much in the news this week, made [...]

The Sam Maguire Cup was brought to CBC yesterday and the boys of the Prep School celebrated Cork’s seventh win in the All-Ireland Football final (in 120 years).   Ballydesmond forward Donncha O’Connor, who played a crucial part in the semi-final against Dublin, was the man who brought the cup to CBC. He has been a [...]

The Secondary School Class of 2010 finished school on Thursday 27  May.  Some dropped into the Prep School for a last look round.  Many of the Sixth Year boys started here fourteen years ago. 

This morning at 10.00am, the boys of the Prep School assembled in the Hall to await the arrival of the Romanian Ambassador to Ireland, Mr Iulian Buga.  As he walked into the Hall,  Mr Buga was given a great round of applause by boys from Junior infants to Sixth Class. Mr Buga spoke to the boys [...]