It's something of a cliché that men like to play sports and that even men who don't play sports like to talk about them. Watching sports and commenting on the performance of players and teams is a favourite pastime for men. Knowing the basic rules of key team games is an important part of a … Continue reading Sport is a key part of masculine identity
Archbishop hauled before the courts for trying to keep his schools Catholic
To find out about the heroic fight of San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone to keep his schools Catholic read this: http://dailysignal.com/2015/03/08/how-lawmakers-are-trying-to-control-san-franciscos-catholic-schools/
Students at Chavagnes International College
Chavagnes International College : http://www.chavagnes.org Real Catholic education for boys.
Chavagnes newsletters now online
For the latest Chavagnes newsletter: http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs058/1102549438685/archive/1106407570927.html For the archives: Chavagnes newsletter archive. Catholic boarding school for boys.
Chavagnes annnounces new development plan
Chavagnes International College, France, a British international curriculum Catholic boarding school for boys, has announced a new development plan for the next five years. The new initiative, combining internal restructuring of personnel and management with a programme of building works, will be detailed at a meeting for current parents and parents of potential future pupils … Continue reading Chavagnes annnounces new development plan
The Wrong Book of Numbers
Once more into the breach, then, this time against that slipperiest of enemies: Numbers, as presented by journalists. The L.A. Times, on 28 September, published a piece by Mitchell Landsberg entitled, "Atheists, Agnostics Most Knowledable About Religion, Survey Says". Mr. Landsberg goes on to cite a recent Pew survey, which seems to indicate that atheists … Continue reading The Wrong Book of Numbers
Pope Benedict on Education during the Papal Visit
Gently but firmly, Pope Benedict called Catholic education to a greater fidelity to its evangelical mission. In several of his addresses, especially one at St Mary's College Twickenham, he recalled the teaching of Cardinal Newman in his "Idea of a University" that the ethos of a place of learning is at least as important as … Continue reading Pope Benedict on Education during the Papal Visit
Vocations in Catholic education
A Catholic school that promotes vocations
Modern languages in Catholic boarding schools
One of the boys, Paul de Guibert, a French boy of 12, said he found that having to swtich between Latin, Greek, German, Spanish, English and French ... was not difficult at all 'once you get used to it.'
Sport, Drama and fishing: the key to better exam results
Schools that offer more activities outside the classroom get better GCSE exam results from their pupils, the Independent Schools Council has recently claimed.
