Creating and running a joint Catholic-Protestant school – that’s the story the public can hear in Belfast on Wednesday night.
The speaker will be Madeleine Brennan founding principal of St Columba College, Adelaide, South Australia, which she led for 18 years from 1997 to 2015. Her theme, “Creating a Joint-Church School: an Australian Experience”, comes at an interesting time in view of current discussions on possible joint-church management in Northern Ireland.
This 2016 Dunleath Lecture, takes place in the Canada Room in Queen’s University at 7.30pm on Wednesday 2 March. All are welcome.
“It was a case of building on the things we have in common”, says Madeleine Brennan. “There are still some fundamental differences; but we have chosen to build on the things we hold together”.
The founding churches named the school “St Columba College” after the celtic Saint shared by both traditions. Discussions started in 1994. The school opened in 1997 with 207 pupils and has now grown to over 1,400 pupils from 5 to 18 years of age.
Creating and running a joint Catholic-Protestant school – that’s the story the public can hear in Belfast on Wednesday night.
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