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:
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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
The children enjoyed another great dance club session with Envy Street Dance this week. Look at the fun that was had. UNCRC Rights of the Child: 31 Article Rest Play, Culture & Arts SHANARRI: Active & Included
P5-7 got stuck in to our second session of our Spero robotics club today. This time the challenge was to design a route for the Sphero that the device would follow. We learned that we had to make sure each line in our 2D shapes joined otherwise the Sphero had a ‘dead zone’ instruction gap. The children experimented with coding the device to display different colours for each line. Ry’s
Well done to our great wee team of football players for playing their first matches at the inter-school 7-a-side matches on Friday. Team sports are such a positive experience for building meta-skills such as respect, cooperation and, of course, they’re great fun too! Thank you to Mr Hilftery as our team coach. There will be a replay again in a fortnight’s time. UNCRC Rights of the Child – Article 15:
This week saw the return of our ever-popular netball after-school club. The pupils made the most of the sunshine, getting outdoors to enjoy the team sport together. Thank you to Mrs Anderton and Donna for making this possible. UNCRC Rights of the Child: Article 15-Setting Up & Joining Groups, Article 24 – Health, Water, Food & Environment SHANARRI – Active & Included
Our fabulous parent council have kindly organised Envy Street Dance workshops with Jenny. Tonight was the first session which had a great turn out from the boys and girls who were very keen to take part. The children thoroughly enjoyed the active session. Have a look at their grooves ‘n’ moves! All children are welcome 🙂 UNCRC Rights of the Child – Article15 – Setting up & Joining Groups, Article
We’ve kick-started off our Sphero robotic and coding activities for Primary 5 – 7 pupils. We borrowed IPads and Sphero Block devices from Portpatrick Primary. What is a Sphero, you ask? Well, Sphero robots have many different internal parts that make them work such as motors, LEDs, encoders, processors, a CPU and Bluetooth communication module for connecting to phones, and a gyroscope that keeps it oriented. A small, wheeled robot
We are pleased to receive this letter from Emma Harper, MSP for South Scotland. She is delighted with our work in celebrating our Scots Language. Have a read for yourself. Well done everyone! UNCRC Rights of the Child: Article 7 – Nationality Sustainable Development Goal 4 – Quality Education SHANARRI – Included
Our enviromentally conscious pupils rolled up their sleeves to look after our coastal habitats today. We were marking the occassion of World Water Day and we were participating in The Litter League Spring Clean 2024 – Keep Scotland Beautiful campaign too. Our pupils happily marched down to Agnew Park beach and gave the area a good spring clean. There was lots of plastic to be found and the children had much discussion
