Formal Dinners
Each Monday evening the College celebrates Formal Dinner. The dinner is a three-stage process which begins with pre-dinner drinks in the College's Lower Common Room where members of the college can mingle with the evening's speaker and the leaders of the college. The dinner is a two course meal followed with a speech by the guest speaker. After dinner there are after dinner drinks and a musical performance in the Lower Common Room. Traditional formalities are observed and the students wear academic dress which comprises formal shoes, a skirt and an academic gown.
Each year an Archbishop's Mass and Dinner is held at the College. Every second year the successful candidate of the Archbishop's Scholarship is announced. The scholarship is granted to a Sancta Sophia College student displaying outstanding academic achievement and involvement within the Catholic Church.
Other special occasion dinners include the Alumnae Dinner and the Mother and Daughter and Father and Daughter dinners.
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