We are incredibly proud of our P5–7 pupils who have successfully achieved their Meta-skills certificates after working independently through their Meta-skills booklets. 🌟 Throughout this work, pupils reflected on how they use important life skills in their everyday learning and interactions. These Meta-skills included: ✨ Focusing✨ Integrity✨ Adapting✨ Initiative✨ Communicating✨ Collaborating✨ Feeling✨ Leading✨ Curiosity✨ Sense-making✨ Critical Thinking✨ Creativity Pupils showed great maturity and honesty as they considered their strengths and
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Our P5–7 pupils recently took part in a short block of orienteering sessions with Alison Murray from Active Schools, and it was a great experience for everyone involved! The sessions took place in the Ryan Centre hall, where pupils were introduced to the key skills of orienteering, including map reading, following directions, teamwork and problem-solving. These skills were developed through a range of fun, active games and fitness-based activities, keeping
Our P5–7 pupils recently enjoyed a fantastic visit from the Creighton Carbon Centre, who delivered an engaging and hands-on workshop all about ecosystems and biodiversity. 🌍 The session began in the classroom, where pupils learned about what an ecosystem is and why biodiversity is so important. They explored how plants, animals, insects and fungi all play a role in keeping environments healthy and balanced. After this, the learning moved outdoors
Over the past number of weeks, our P5–7 pupils have been taking part in a fantastic block of sessions with Matthew from Youth Work. During this time, pupils explored important topics around feelings, emotions, and relationships, helping them to better understand themselves and others. Through discussions, activities and group work, they developed skills in recognising emotions, building positive relationships and supporting one another. The sessions provided a safe and supportive
What a fantastic afternoon of science we had at St. Joseph’s! Our classroom was buzzing with excitement as pupils, families and staff explored a range of hands-on experiments and activities together. Our brilliant STEM Leaders kicked things off by visiting each station and clearly explaining how everything worked. They then stepped into their leadership roles, supporting younger pupils and families and helping everyone get the most out of the activities
We had a fantastic time celebrating World Book Day in school with a wonderful afternoon full of reading, creativity and fun! In the lead-up to the day, many pupils worked hard to create posters celebrating books and reading, which helped build excitement for the event. On the day itself, pupils came to school either in fantastic book character costumes or non-uniform, and everyone made such a brilliant effort. It was
This week our P5–7 pupils took their numeracy learning outside for an active and engaging lesson focused on division and fractions. The playground became our classroom as pupils worked collaboratively in groups to explore mathematical ideas in different ways. 🔢 Learning Through Movement and Teamwork Each group had a different learning focus and task: 🤝 Learning Together Pupils showed great teamwork throughout the lesson. They supported one another by discussing
This week, our P5–7 class spent a focused and reflective afternoon working on their Meta-skills booklets alongside activities from My World of Work, helping them explore important life skills and begin working towards their Bronze, Silver and Gold Meta-skills Certificates. Meta-skills are the skills that help us succeed not only in school, but in life. Through discussions, reflection tasks and practical activities, pupils explored the twelve key Meta-skills: ✨ Focusing✨
It’s been another busy and exciting week in school! Our P6–7 pupils recently enjoyed a fantastic trip to Loch Inch at Castle Kennedy, where they took part in an engaging Food and Farming workshop organised by the Royal Highland Education Trust. On arrival, pupils rotated around a series of practical workshops led by local farmers and industry experts. Each station gave pupils the chance to explore different aspects of farming
Today, Thursday 5th February, we kicked off our very first Primary 5–7 rugby session, and what a fantastic start it was! 🌟 Although our Primary 7 pupils were unable to join us today as they were at the academy for their walkthrough, our Primary 5 and Primary 6 pupils headed outside full of enthusiasm and ready to get started – even with the cold and windy weather! ❄️💨 It didn’t
