P.7 spent Friday at Stranraer Academy accompanied by Miss Lisi. They were joined by children and staff from Portpatrick, Leswalt and Kirkcolm. St. Joseph’s and Portpatrick spent the day together. The children met key members of staff, participated in two lessons; art and ICT, and enjoyed a lunch in the school cafeteria. All pupils had a fantastic day and they feel increasingly more prepared for their 3 full days in
Pupils from Portpatrick and St. Joseph’s primaries joined together to enjoy a day of outdoor learning at Logan Botanical Gardens. The children headed off in the sunshine for two workshops. Primary 1 – 3 pupils used their senses and observation skills to find out secrets of the trees and why they are an important part of our world. They went on a learning journey through the garden to discover something
We are proud to introduce our new Eco Code and Eco Mascots for St. Joseph’s, as designed by our pupils. The Keep Scotland Beautiful Eco Schools Award requires each school to create their own unique mascot and codes to represent our action plan for the award. The children were creative in their ideas and approaches and were are happy to share our winners. Eco Code Poem – A Collaborative Project:
As it was so nice today we took the children outdoors for street dance! It seems to be ever-expanding with 18 taking part today! The children practised hard and were showing off their skills, have a look at their awesome moves! Thank you as always to Jenny and Envy Street Dance for this opportunity.
West Rhins Partnership to Logan Botanical Gardens Pupils from Portpatrick and St. Joseph’s primaries joined together to enjoy a day of outdoor learning at Logan Botanical Gardens. The children headed off in the sunshine for two workshops. Primary 4 – 7 pupils explored different ways of experiencing our local habitat to find out some of the ways that environmental factors shape the biodiversity and the landscapes we live in. They
This afternoon P5-7 were given the choice of what they wanted to do relating to Titanic. The choices were to draw the Titanic either in cartoon form, pencil sketching or in any other way; making the Titanic out of a choice of materials; researching the Titanic and producing a PowerPoint on it. The children got stuck in and absolutely loved getting to choose what they wanted to do. We had
Janet from Creative Stranraer came to visit our school on Monday this week to tell the children about the exciting Cycling Festival which is happening in Stranraer soon. She was looking to gather ideas from the children as to what type of activities they would like to see at such a festival. As expected, the children were full of fantastic ideas including ‘design a bike’, ‘bike rides’, ‘make bike out
As we are now beginning to have a reward for the winning house each term, we worked out who had attained the most points in the past 3 terms. Luckily, it worked out that all 3 houses – St. Andrews, St. Ninians and St. Columbus – had won a term each!! The house captains and vice captains worked with their houses to decide on a prize and all 3 houses
Today, as a school, we attended Mass for the Holy Day of Obligation – the Ascension of Jesus. The children have learned about this event this week and joined the parish today to celebrate in Mass. Primary 5-7 read the bidding prayers as usual but today the church was much fuller than it usually is for our school masses! A huge well done to Lolah, Ry, Rubie, Ava W. and
Portpatrick and St. Joseph’s football teams enjoyed a practice session in the sun today. Our two coaches, John & John were on hand to offer tips, advice and guidance to our eager team players. Wishing our teams good luck at the Academy tomorrow. UNCRC Rights of the Child – Article 15: Joining groups, Article 24 – Health SHANARRI – Healthly, Active, Included
