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
Our P5-7 pupils were thrilled to welcome a special visitor, Ella, to our classroom recently. Ella, from Scottish Book Trust, came to talk to us about the importance of books and shared fantastic ideas on how we can organise our school library to better suit our reading preferences. It was an insightful and hands-on experience for everyone involved. During the session, Ella introduced a diverse range of books for the
At St. Joseph’s, we encourage children to show our school values, such as resilience, co-operation and compassion at all times throughout the day. This doesn’t stop in the classroom! One of the ways we try to encourage this is through providing our P7 pupils with the opportunity to participate in the Play Leader Scheme, through Active Schools. This allows pupils to have the opportunity to lead outdoor games and encourage
Our recent Wider Achievement Afternoon was a wonderful showcase of our pupils’ enthusiasm, creativity, and teamwork! The entire session was child-led, allowing our pupils to choose an activity that truly excited them. This term, they could pick between hand knitting, STEM building, or art, which included online Halloween drawing tutorials or play-doh sculpting. We’re delighted to share that every pupil got their first choice of activity, making it a very
Today, our school community came together to attend a beautiful Mass service centred around the theme of Creation. The service was filled with joy as we sang some of our favourite hymns, including The Butterfly Song and The Colours of Day. The children sang with enthusiasm, filling the church with their lovely voices. Father Ben shared a heart-warming story about St. Francis of Assisi, who is known not only as
