Extracurricular Activities

Sports

The sporting extracurricular activities take place at lunchtime and after school. The programmes are led by our own teaching staff. However, from time to time visiting coaching specialists are brought to the school. The team and individual sports covered are:

Educational Visits

A number of educational visits take place at various intervals, including:

• A ski trip in the second term of every other year

• Outdoor pursuits activity programmes every year

• Theatre visits

• Art exhibitions

• Science exhibitions

• Visits to facilitate a range of leisure activities including bowling, ice skating, swimming and hill walking

Sports

Camogie

Hurling

Cross and Passion College has a great tradition of hurling and draws pupils from all of the hurling clubs in North Antrim. CPC enters teams in all Ulster Colleges ‘A’ hurling competitions as follows:

• Year 8 - Thompson Cup

• Year 9 - McNamee Cup

• Year 10 - Gallagher Cup

• Year 11 - Leonard Cup

• Year 12 - Forresters Cup

• Year 13 & 14 - Mageean Cup

There are a number of teachers who generously give of their time to coach the school teams, including Mr Cassidy, Mr Kearney, Mr Campbell, Mr, Grieve, Mr Clarke and Mr McAfee.

Hurling has flourished in CPC over the last number of years and we are the top Hurling college in Ulster.  Currently we are the Mageean Cup, Forrester Cup and McNamee Cup Hurling champions. We have accumulated over 30 Ulster A titles in the last 15 years and our greatest achievements has been winning the All Ireland Senior Hurling title on 3 occasions 2009, 2010 and 2015.

Like Camogie we have accumulated a large number of Hurling Allstars with our most recent winners being Seamus McAuley, Conal McGlynn, John McAlister and Michael O Boyle.

Hurling in CPC has a bright future due to the dedication of the pupils and teachers involved and the continuing support from local clubs.

Soccer

Soccer teams at Cross and Passion are taken by Mr Kearney and the school competes in the year 8, 9 and 10 competitions in the Coleraine and District Schools league. Opposition varies from Dominican College, Loreto College, Cookstown High, St Mary’s Limavady, Ballymoney High and Dalriada.

The year 8 team competes in the McKinney Cup, the year 9 in the Mc Garry Cup and the year 10 in the Coleraine Cup.

Gaelic Football

Cross and Passion College competes in the Ulster Colleges competitions. At present we enter two competitions. The teams are coached by Mr Cassidy and, MrMcVeigh.

Mallon Cup – U-13 ½

Ennis Cup – U-14 ½

We have won the Ennis Cup on one occasion, 2012, when we beat Loreto College, Coleraine in the final on a scoreline of 1-10 to 2-4.

Hopefully with continued hard work and dedication we can bring more Ulster Colleges football titles to CPC in the near future.

Netball

Cross and Passion compete in both the Coleraine and District League and the NEBSSA Competitions for Netball. The teams are coached superbly by Ms Donnelly and Mrs S. McGinley. We are consistently competing for titles in these competitions and are have had a number of girls selected for Northern Ireland trials and development squads in recent years.

Golf

Cross and Passion have a golf team to cater for the pupils who play the sport competitively. Under the guidance of Mrs Black, the pupils take part every year in the Darren Clarke Schools league where they play schools from the local area.

Tennis

Tennis is a relativly new team sport in Cross and Passion College. We entered boys and girls teams at junior level in the Ulster Schools Tennis competition. They get the oppourtunity to compete against the other schools across Ulster. It is a sport we hope will grow over the next number of years.

Annual Ski Trip

Music

Drama

Heartstart

As a lunchtime activity, Cross and Passion College offers pupils the opportunity to receive training in basic emergency life support skills through the Heartstart UK programme in conjunction with Northern Health & Social Care Trust and North Eastern Education & Library Board. 

Heartstart is an initiative which aims to to teach members of the public what to do in the case of a life-threatening emergency.

Pupils are taught how to effectively respond to a range of emergency situations - CPR, suspected heart attack, dealing with choking, serious bleeding and helping someone who may be having a heart attack.

Debating in Cross and Passion

Participating in debates and debating competitions has been a long running tradition in Cross and Passion College. The current Debating Society, run by Mrs Hughes, has enjoyed enormous success since its resurgence in 2015. They have achieved great success in a variety of school’s competitions including a victory in the regional finals in the "Debating Matters" competition.

The Debating Society partake in other competitions, such as the "Concern Debates", which the school won in 2016 to become All Ireland Champions. The school has continued its success in this competition reaching the Knock out and Quarter Final stages every year. This is great testimony to the strength and depth of debating in Cross and Passion College with increasing numbers of pupils joining the Debating Society.

The debates are a great opportunity to promote literacy within the school and the recent ETI inspection of the school commended the work of the Debating Society in this regard. The tensions that arise during a debate mean that those competing must be able to keep a level head and think clearly under pressure. The members must be able to communicate their arguments, shut down their opponents and time manage their speeches effectively - not an easy task.

Through debating, pupils can broaden their horizons and begin to explore ethical questions, teaching them to see things from a range of perspectives which is a tangible life skill that will help them as they move through secondary school and beyond.

The current members of the Debating Society are preserving a winning tradition also. In 1986 the Senior Debating Team at Cross and Passion were All-Ireland Champions – a team which featured current Senior teacher Mrs Noleene Magee. It certainly looks like a return to the glory days of debating at CPC is taking place.