The boys enjoyed a lovely day at Les Sables-d’Olonne on the first weekend back. On the menu: swimming, a boat trip, some sightseeing and a few ball games.

Invoking the blessings of the Holy Spirit on the new academic year, Father Carlos Hamel today celebrated the traditional Academic “Red Mass” for the boys and Masters of the College. It was a sung Latin Mass in the traditional form.

We are all delighted to be back to school after six months away. Pupils and staff wished a happy 18th birthday to Chavagnes International College and a happy 49th to the Headmaster.

To get into the right mood for next week we were delighted to welcome friends and supporters to a special fish and chip soirée yesterday. A great success, which will be repeated.

We we were delighted to host a breakfast and visit for colleagues of the local Collège Sainte Marie today, as we all prepare for the new term.  

With the Coronavirus situation it is difficult for families to come and visit us and meet some of our teachers. So we’re inviting you along on two days in June 2020 to see our College and meet some of the personalities. You might be an internationally-minded family looking for a Catholic boarding education for your…

Socratic method, critical thinking and the liberal education tradition. Over the years from about 1960 to 2000 a debate raged between content and process in education. The conservatives said that it was the content matter which mattered. The progressives said it didn’t matter what you taught … that education was all about a journey ……

In continuation of our series of orginal reflections on Our Lady from Chavagnes, we here reproduce a homily given at Chavagnes in 2016 by Bishop Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop of Astana in Kazakhstan and secretary of the Kazakhstan Catholic Bishops’ Conference. In honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady, the Mother of God and…

This morning, 13th May 2020, the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, referring to the Marian apparitions in Fatima, Pope Francis said: “We turn in thought to Her apparitions and to Her message transmitted to the world, as well as to the attack on Saint John Paul II, who in the sparing of his life,…