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
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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
It was time to celebrate a special time of year at St. Joseph’s. Our community organised an Easter Craft fundraiser to help pay for a school trip to Belfast Titanic Museum next term for our senior pupils. The event was very well attended by our families and friends in Stranraer. Father Ben came along to offer his support too. The children demonstrated great enterprise skills by creating crafts to sell,
It was time to celebrate the end of term with a special themed breakfast at our breakfast club this morning. We were joined by the Easter Bunny and Minnie Mouse who handed out homemade cheesy puffs for later and a huge basket of fruit for the children to enjoy. There were also hot cross buns to enjoy too! Two volunteers from Blood Bikes came along to take part in the
Our school community has been busy working on our Rights Respecting School award (RRSA). . Today, we have been awarded our Bronze award. This means we are ‘Rights Committed’. A certificate will be sent to us in the next couple of weeks. To achieve this, we have had to show evidence that: Our next step is to work towards achieving our silver award. This can take one to two years.
P7 pupils, Myles, Ethan, Charlie and Lola, went along to the North West Castle Hotel for a inter-school end of season bonspiel today. The event was well attended by primary schools from across the cluster. There was a great chance for meeting up for our P7 friends from across the partnership and to mingle with pupils from across the area. The children’s first match was against Rephad 2. They did
We are happy to share our new Vision, Values and Aims now that our partnership school community surveys are completed. Our pupils, staff and parents have told us what is important to you for your child’s experiences and learning at school. Please click here, or on the link below, and select play to take a look at the results. West Rhins Partnership We have sought the views of our parents,
