West Rhins Partnership to Logan Botanical Gardens Pupils from Portpatrick and St. Joseph’s primaries joined together to enjoy a day of outdoor learning at Logan Botanical Gardens. The children headed off in the sunshine for two workshops. Primary 4 – 7 pupils explored different ways of experiencing our local habitat to find out some of the ways that environmental factors shape the biodiversity and the landscapes we live in. They
This afternoon P5-7 were given the choice of what they wanted to do relating to Titanic. The choices were to draw the Titanic either in cartoon form, pencil sketching or in any other way; making the Titanic out of a choice of materials; researching the Titanic and producing a PowerPoint on it. The children got stuck in and absolutely loved getting to choose what they wanted to do. We had
Janet from Creative Stranraer came to visit our school on Monday this week to tell the children about the exciting Cycling Festival which is happening in Stranraer soon. She was looking to gather ideas from the children as to what type of activities they would like to see at such a festival. As expected, the children were full of fantastic ideas including ‘design a bike’, ‘bike rides’, ‘make bike out
As we are now beginning to have a reward for the winning house each term, we worked out who had attained the most points in the past 3 terms. Luckily, it worked out that all 3 houses – St. Andrews, St. Ninians and St. Columbus – had won a term each!! The house captains and vice captains worked with their houses to decide on a prize and all 3 houses
Today, as a school, we attended Mass for the Holy Day of Obligation – the Ascension of Jesus. The children have learned about this event this week and joined the parish today to celebrate in Mass. Primary 5-7 read the bidding prayers as usual but today the church was much fuller than it usually is for our school masses! A huge well done to Lolah, Ry, Rubie, Ava W. and
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
Jo came back on Thursday to talk to the children about animals that are native to Scotland, in particular, the red squirrels. Jo put on a wonderful presentation that the children all enjoyed. Jo helps with animal conservation and explained the importance of this to the pupils. The children got to feel weighted toy red and grey squirrels to see the difference in the heaviness of each as, although they
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
