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
Today the whole school got involved with some Outdoor Learning, and what a lovely day we had for it as well! Jo, from the Rhins and Luce Red Squirrel Network, came to work with the children on some improvements for our outdoor area. Firstly P5-7 learned how to construct a teepee for growing beans and flowers on. The children got stuck in, finding sticks and then cutting off extra branches
Yesterday parents/carers attended our annual Easter Craft afternoon organised by Donna and our Parent Council. The children got stuck in making some lovely Easter crafts and cards for our Easter Fayre, which were suggested and chosen by our Enterprise Group. Lots of arty (and messy) fun was had by all! Come join us on Thursday for our Easter Fayre where you can buy these fab designs for a small donation!
What an amazing day P5-7 had at Sheuchan on Monday with the musicians and performers from the Scottish Opera. The underlying theme of the performance was to protect our planet and St. Joseph’s P5-7 played the villagers, who helped the other characters in the opera to realise that we need to respect our environment. The children learned the songs and actions in class and came together with Sheuchan P5-7, who
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.
Our Crazy Hair Day fundraiser was a success with some amazing wacky hairstyles! The children had lots of fun showing off their hair and outfits today. Thank you very much for all your kind donations to SCIAF – it is much appreciated and the money will be given to the church to send off to SCIAF. Well done to the Enterprise Group for organising this. Have a look at our
Today P5-7 had a few lessons in Financial Education. The topics covered were: The lessons were streamed live through Teams and the children found the information very interesting and useful. There were interactive quizzes and questions throughout so the whole class could get involved. Some very important life lessons learned today and the children were praised by the presenter for their knowledge and clever questioning, well done! UNCRC 17 –
On Wednesday we had Mrs Hall in from DG STEM to show P5-7 how to work Microbits. The children were introduced to a coding website and learned how to make patterns on the screen. They were then shown how to configure the microbits and how to download their pictures and messages onto them and the different things that the microbits can be used for. The children learned how to make
We are very excited for our SCIAF (Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund) fundraising day on March 15th when the Enterprise Group have decided we are coming with crazy hair and/or non-uniform! We have asked that children bring in a small donation if they can for the SCIAF who help change lives worldwide! P5-7 have been designing information leaflets about SCIAF and our school fundraising day, whilst P1-4 enjoyed creating detailed
