Our STEM leaders from St. Joseph’s travelled to Portpatrick today to meet with the STEM Leaders there. Our enthusiastic team got their heads together to plan how we can promote and improve our offer of STEM in the West Rhins Partnership. The group agreed many action points are and keen to get started on their plan. We can look forward to a monthly lunchtime STEM club organised by our keen
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Yesterday’s Halloween party was a spooktacular success! Our little ghouls, witches, and monsters had an absolute blast playing musical statues, wrapping the mummy, and corners. We enjoyed some yummy snacks to keep us fueled, and the highlight of the day was when our P5-7 pupils showed off their amazing spooky dance routines! A huge well done to Liana in P1-4 and Nanci-Rose in P5-7 for winning best costumes this year!
Our Digital Leaders from St. Joseph’s and Portpatrick met today at Portpatrick Primary. They participated in a Digital Leader training day to help them drive forward as Leaders of Learning. After a tour of the school led by Adam and Arran, there was a lot to work through on the agenda from developing our digital literacy skills to working together to help our classmates keep safe online. Have a read
Our assembly groups collaborated to learn about different significant saints as part of learning about All Saints Day which falls on the 1st of November. It is a day for Christians to remember and celebrate those who lived before us and contributed to the life of the church and society. In Roman Catholic tradition, ‘saints’ are Christians who have been recognised as particularly holy people, or who have had miracles
The Portpatrick Community Development Trust kindly organised a fantastic Halloween party for our pupils from both Portpatrick and St. Joseph’s. The hall looked amazing with creepy decorations galore. The refreshments were a frightful delight with vampire blood and ghost spirit drinks along with Halloween themed sweet and savoury treats. The event was very well attended, particularly for such a wet and windy night – it all added to the mood.
St. Joseph’s pupils are very enthusiastic in going for our Gold Rights Respecting Schools Award. The children are working together to learn about rights, for rights and through rights. We want to involve our families as much as possible. Your child will shortly come home with a book bag so you can chat about children’s rights with your child at home. This will be on a weekly rotation. In the
Linking with This Is Our Faith strand of the Mystery of God, our pupils decided to show how we can all take a role in caring for our environment. They created signposts around school to demonstrate where St. Joseph’s takes our stewardship roles and responsibilities seriously. This links with our positive action for our Rights Respecting Schools and Eco Schools Awards. This Is Our Faith – Mystery of God UNCRC Rights
We promote the development of the 4 capacities of Curriculum for Excellence in our children. All of our pupils are active participants in our pupil voice groups. Have read of the latest minutes for each group to see how they are leading positive change in our school. UNCRC Rights of the Child: Article 12 – Respect for Children’s Views, Article 24 – Environment SHANARRI – Included, Respected, Responsible Pupil Council
St. Joseph’s held a very successful Coffee Afternoon as a McMillan Cancer fundraiser. Our Enterprise Group took on leadership responsibility to organise the event, supported by Mrs Mann who chairs the group. Our Parent Council and family volunteers were on hand to help host the well attended community event. The Enterprise group organised advertising, arranged craft activities and games. P5 – 7 used their knowledge of weighing and measuring to
Primary 1 – 4 had great fun putting their practical skills in action toconstruct their own butterfly and bird boxes. They got stuck in using a rangeof tools to build their little habitat homes. Through discovery and imagination, the children developed and used problemsolving strategies to construct their creature homes; exploring materials andwooden blocks. The children delighted in decorating their homes to make themlook fabulous. Our thanks to Donna, Bill
