Boys are encouraged to help organise and to participate in a number of activities of benefit to those less privileged than themselves. These include:

S.R.P.A.:

A school-based society in which boys from Humanities and Rhetoric commit themselves to charitable work with people who are old or in poor circumstances and who live nearby.

The Duck Push:

A fund-raising walk by Transition Year pupils to raise money for a children’s charity.

Special Children’s Holiday:

Pupils from Poetry and Rhetoric volunteer a week of their summer holidays on the Clongowes campus to care for people with special needs. This enables the children’s families and carers to have a week of holidays.

Social Outreach:

Organised during Transition Year, pupils travel each week to caring institutions located nearby to work with people with special needs or teach them skills in the school.

Re Nua Club:

Run by pupils of Transition Year who teach adults with special needs at night time such skills as music, computing, and art.

Lourdes Pilgrimage:

Boys from Rhetoric accompany the Dublin Diocesan Pilgrimage and work as brancardiers.

Visit to Taize:

During Easter, boys from Poetry travel to Taize in France to participate in its unique experience of prayer and sacred music.

Portora Royal School:

The College is twinned with Portora Royal School, Enniskillen and each year a variety of sporting and cultural interchanges are organised, mostly for senior pupils.

Transition Year:

During Transition Year in particular, boys receive the opportunity for many other out of school activities which include two weeks’ work experience, one week of social work placement, exchanges with schools in France and Germany, outdoor pursuits, trips to theatres, museums, art galleries, cinema etc.