The Arts and cultural activities are strongly supported and opportunities are extensive. Arts Blues are awarded as well as Academic and Sports Blues.
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Annual Otago Shakespeare Festival
Art and Design Workshops
Chamber Music Competition
Crafts
Creative Writing
Chamber Orchestra
Drama Concerts
Drama Clubs, Senior and Junior
Instrumental Ensembles
Instrumental Tuition
Junior School Choir
School Drama Productions
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Intermediate Choir
Intermediate Orchestra
Junior School Orchestra
Madrigal Choir
Music Theory Tuition
Music Concerts
Wind Symphonia
Photography
Piano, String, Woodwind, Voice, Brass, Percussion
School Musical Productions
Speech and Drama Tuition
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Amnesty International
Bridge
Chess
Christian Group
Computer Club
Defensive Driving
Debating
Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme
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International Club
Librarians
Public Speaking
Red Cross First Aid Courses
S.A.D.D. (Students against Driving Drunk)
School Council
School Magazine
Young Enterprise Scheme
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The annual Inter-House Debating and Music Competitions and the recently introduced Book Week with its Quiz add enjoyment to school life.
An annual Creative Writing Competition has also been introduced successfully. It is named after two Old Girls: The Elspeth Sandys Creative Writing Award for Prose and The Cilla McQueen Creative Writing Award for Poetry.
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2006 School Musical "No, No Nanette" |
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Columba College has two long-established exchanges with Australian schools: Strathcona Baptist Girls' Grammar School in Melbourne, and The Presbyterian Ladies' College in Armidale. Every year two students are selected to attend each school for 3 to 4 weeks, and four Australian students spend a corresponding period of time at Columba.
In addition to the annual visit to Dunedin and Columba College by around thirty Edogawa Girls' High School students from Tokyo, Columba language students participate annually in German and French exchanges over the Christmas holidays, staying with the families of their host sisters and attending school. The French exchange is with the International School in Valbonne.
There is also an annual exchange at Year 10 level with Iona College in Havelock North with two students from each school spending two weeks at the host school.
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 2006 school trip to Kyoto, Hiroshima and Tokyo |
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There have been three school trips to Japan to visit our sister school in Tokyo, Edogawa Girls' High School. The 2006 trip included visits to Kyoto and Hiroshima to deepen the girls' cultural experience.
On each visit students have attended Edogawa Girls' High School and have lived in homestays with Edogawa familes.
