As part of Climate Week Scotland, our pupils explored an important topic during today’s whole-school assembly: climate change and our carbon footprints. 🌎❤️ We learned about what climate change is, how our everyday choices can affect the environment and what we can do to help look after our planet. We also discussed our carbon footprints and how making small changes to the way we live can help reduce our impact
What better way to enjoy a sunny afternoon during Maths Week than to take our learning outdoors! 🌳➕❤️ This afternoon, pupils across St Joseph’s enjoyed a fantastic session of outdoor maths activities, planned, organised and led by our brilliant STEM Leaders – Callum, Willow and Ebony. 🌟 Our STEM Leaders had thought carefully about how the afternoon would work. They organised everyone into groups, each taking responsibility for leading a
Our P7 pupils have been developing their leadership skills with Alison Murray from Active Schools, and they have now completed the second week of their Play Leader sessions. ❤️ These sessions are helping our P7s learn how to plan, organise and lead fun activities for younger pupils, while developing lots of important skills along the way. This week, their challenge was to work together to design obstacle courses for our
Our Pupil Council for 2026–2027 has held its first meeting of the new school session, and our representatives are already getting to work on turning pupil ideas into positive action at St Joseph’s! ❤️ At their first meeting, the Council talked about their important role in representing the views and ideas of pupils across the school. They agreed that every child should have opportunities to share their views and help
Our new STEM Leaders – Callum, Willow and Ebony – held their first planning meeting today, and they have been busy coming up with some exciting ideas for Maths Week next week! ❤️ Their challenge was to think of fun ways to get the whole school involved in maths, and they decided to take some of our learning outdoors! 🌳🔢 Working together, they came up with a selection of activities
This month, our Right of the Month is Article 26 – the right to social and economic help. As part of our continued Rights Respecting work, pupils are helping everyone across the school understand what our monthly right means and, importantly, how we can see it in action at St Joseph’s. A huge well done to Jessica and Robin from our Pupil Council, who worked together to create this fantastic
Our P5–7 pupils had a very important visit from PC Shannon Walker from our local police this week, who came along to talk to the children about social media and keeping themselves safe online. ❤️ The session gave pupils lots of opportunities to discuss the different ways they use technology and social media, as well as some of the risks they may come across. We were really impressed by how
Today we were delighted to welcome Alison and Danny from Active Schools to St Joseph’s to kick off our new programme! ❤️ Our P5–7 pupils enjoyed a fantastic tennis session at the Ryan Centre. The children got straight into the action, developing their racket skills, coordination and control through a range of fun activities and challenges. 🎾 There was lots of movement, plenty of enthusiasm and some great teamwork on
Today, Miss Lisi took the whole school to the library for our first Buddy Reading session of the new school year! Buddy Reading was incredibly popular with our pupils last session, so we were very excited to bring it back – this time with new reading buddies. Our older and younger pupils were paired together, and they took to their new partnerships fantastically. 🌟 The library was soon filled with
We are delighted to introduce our new Pupil Council, Eco Committee and Enterprise Group for the 2026–2027 school year! ❤️ Pupil voice is an important part of life at St Joseph’s, and this year all pupils across the school were given the opportunity to apply for the groups they were most interested in joining. The children put lots of thought into their applications, explaining why they would like to be
