St. Ninian’s students had a fantastic morning participating in Junior Tynwald. Our six participants asked questions of the ministers on the cancellation of the TT’s impact of the economy, measures to reduce carbon emissions, along with putting forward debate motions on the government's poor handlin…
The Year 7 and 8 netball teams had their first fixtures last week against Ballakermeen. There were 4 teams in each year group, some of the girls representing the school for the first time! All the girls played really well and were a credit to the school. Bring on KWC this week!
Last week’s Debate Committee met to discuss if ‘everyone should stop eating meat”. There were many interesting and informative arguments presented by both sides, with particular focus on the impact on the farming industry. After detailed speeches and comments from the floor the vote resulted in the…
8I organised a ‘Guess how many sweets in a jar’ competition. Students and staff paid 50p for a guess and just before Christmas the winner was announced! There were 194 sweets in the jar and Miss Stringfield won with a guess of 193. 8I raised £50 for the MSPCA. Well done to all involved.
Our school continues to experience extremely high levels of staff absence which resulted in the very difficult decision to ask all Year 9 students to remain at home on Friday 7th January. We would like to thank the families of all our Year 9 students for being so understanding and supportive of thi…
Due to the current situation, we have decided to postpone the Year 6 Open Evening, which should have taken place on 13th January at Lower School. The planned alternative date is 17th February and letters will be sent out to Year 6 parents via their primary schools next week with further information.
As we are experiencing extremely high levels of staff absence at the moment and have now exhausted all other contingencies to manage this for the remainder of this week. I have had to make the very difficult decision for all Year 9 students to remain at home on Friday 7th January and not come in to…
7E and 7J combined to organise a festive sponsored walk in support of our Year 7 charity. They raised a superlative £742.90 for The Big Splash which is immense and we are so thankful for their efforts. Our target at the beginning of the year was £2000 and so far Year 7 have raised £876.70. Many tha…
Continuing with their efforts to raise money for The Big Splash in association with Hospice Isle of Man and Wild in Art, Year 7 students raised £104.60 by running festive games at our recent Christmas Fair. Many thanks to the students and Mrs Hunter (7F). https://thebigsplash.im/ Mr J Cretney Head…