SciFest at Clongowes
On behalf of the Science Department, we are delighted to share the results of our 4th Annual SciFest@Clongowes which featured entries from both Elements and Syntax students. Although the boys…
Elements Virtual Art Exhibition
Our Elements Virtual Art Exhibition is now live and we would like to thank all of those who took part and helped in making it a possibility. The boys were…
Matthew O’Donohoe – Classics Now Competition Winner
Congratulations to Matthew O’Donohoe (Rudiments) who has won the Digital Myth competition run by Classics Now. The brief to students was to “reimagine ancient myths of the Greek and Roman…
TY Students Meet Polar Explorer Alex Hibbert
Last Thursday, TY students were visited by guest speaker Alex Hibbert – a polar expedition leader who spent six months living and working among the Polar Eskimos of remote northwest…
The First Day of Lent
Dust you are and unto dust, you shall return. Ecclesiastes 3:20 Last Wednesday, the school community joined together for the annual Ash Wednesday service in the Boys’ Chapel. This…
The Bullying Prevention Session
Ireland’s leading Theatre-in-Education company, Cyclone Rep recently returned to Clongowes to perform its highly regarded Bullying Prevention Session (BPS) for the Elements and Rudiments groups. BPS is the brainchild of…
Science Week 2020
The annual Clongowes Science Week kicked off on Monday the 3rd of February with a jam-packed itinerary of fascinating and challenging science-related activities. On Monday, the Blackrock Castle Observatory set…
Syntax Forensic Investigation Workshop – Who Shot JFK?
On Saturday, the 11th of January, the Syntax group participated in a Forensic Workshop which investigated the mysterious case of the assassination of John F. Kennedy or JFK, as he…
The Academy Considers Psychopaths and Sociopaths
What is the Academy? The Clongowes Academy was set up by Fr Hilary Lawton, Prefect of Studies, back in the 1950s as a modern-day version of Plato’s Academy from Ancient…
Past V Present Debate
Pictured above are L-R: Karl Hayes, John McLoughlin, Julian Jimenez Ospina, Adam Wozniak, Mr Maelíosa Power OC89, Mr Liam Lysaght OC16, Mr Marcus Keane OC89, Mr Fergal Gaynor OC 89…