The school has always been, and continues to be, omni-present in most of the local sporting competitions including the local school football, basketball and volleyball tournaments, as well as the annual inter-school athletic championships to name a few.
The school also offers an excellent music program — one of the best on the island — and the band has won countless awards at the National Independence Festival for the Creative Arts NIFCA.
The former Prime Minister the Rt. One of the most unique features of this school is the level of comradery shared by all who attend or attended this institution. Author: Brett Callaghan. We welcome you to this old, but dynamic Combermere family and we are sure that your experience will be a happy one, similar to that of so many who have previously attended this school. Our past scholars have brought fame and renown to themselves, their school and their country, in every sphere of human endeavour.
The names of former students of this school have been trumpeted at the highest levels. They have made their mark in every field of human endeavour and we ourselves anticipate the time, when this present group will keep the Combermere flame burning ever brighter.
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Waterford St. Michael BB, St. The school has a total of 53 trained teachers and one guidance counsellor. The school offers an excellent musical program and the school band participates in many cultural activities for the nation.
Combermere is the oldest secondary school in Barbados and is one of the oldest in the entire Commonwealth. The school was also the first to offer secondary education to lower class African-Caribbean people on the island. It is because of this that Combermere was not originally chosen to have a sixth form. The ripples made by this institution throughout its long history only continued to move outward and grow exponentially in importance.
In , Major Cecil Noot became Headmaster of the school and immediately spearheaded the creation of a sixth form for A Level studies, previously only available at the three first grade schools Harrison College, The Lodge School and Queen's College , who catered almost exclusively to the white elite. This seemingly insignificant change in the then current events proved very significant, as it pretty much ended all of the traditional distinction between first and second grade schools in Barbados.
The Combermere School then went on to win its first Barbados Scholarship in The school's original mandate, way back in the 17th century was to provide education to the children of poor white families. This initial goal has evolved, to say the least-over the years, and today. It plays the role of educator, social instructor and part time parent to more than multi-racial, multi-class pupils, and is considered to be.
This claim can be made with reference to both their formidable academic records, as well as the many extra curricular activities which they partake in with very fruitful results.
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