Bishop’s Shield 2023

The Bishop’s Shield is an annual competition where students from the four Catholic high schools in the Dunedin Diocese (Verdon College, St Peter’s College, St Kevin’s College, and Trinity Catholic College) come together and compete against one another in prepared speech, impromptu speech, junior and senior debating, junior and senior drama, and junior and senior scripture.

This is a significant event on the school calendar each year not only in terms of the competition, but also because it brings together the four Catholic colleges in the diocese and provides a wonderful opportunity for students to make friends and reconnect with those they’ve met at previous Bishop’s Shield weekends. Indeed, the sense of community and camaraderie evident during the Bishop’s Shield event is something very special for the students involved.

Well done to all the students in this year’s Bishop’s Shield team for the time and energy they put into preparing for their individual events and for the support they showed to one another.

Special congratulations to Jeremy Meikle who won the Prepared Speech and to Ethan Then, Akein Wickramagedara, and Ché McGivern who won the Junior Debate.

This year the overall Bishop’s Shield was won by St Peter’s, with St Kevin’s coming second.

A big thank you to all the staff who coached our students for sharing their time and expertise, and also to those who gave up their whole weekend to accompany the group.

We look forward to next year’s competition and to rekindling the friendships and connections that were created this year.