Last week saw the start of the hockey season for inter-school sport. The teams started their campaigns with a trip out west to QEII. Seniors: What a fantastic start to Senior Hockey with a 4-2 win against QEII. All students played extremely well especially after not having had many training session…
Year 7 are on target to meet their first Independent Learning Task deadline. Here are some of the first completed tasks. Many have opted to create their work digitally too. There are plenty more to come over this week but this is a great start! The engagement and self-organisation with the task is…
Students from 7A and 7F have been enjoying Forest School sessions since the beginning of term. We are lucky to have such an extensive site to explore with lots of opportunities to experience nature. The groups have been making a positive impact on their school community by picking up litter and thr…
From this week our Lower School Library will be open after school on Mondays and Thursdays until 4.30pm for students wishing to use the facilities. The Library will have staff there to support students with any independent learning tasks they may have. Initially called 'Homework Club' we hope that…
16 Year 11 students went on a day trip to Liverpool on Saturday to see Northern Stage's hard-hitting adaptation of Ken Loach's award-winning film, I Daniel Blake. The students were an absolute credit to the school, and their excellent behaviour and good humour was commented on by members of the pub…
This year the Geography Department took away 30 year 11 students for a 3 day visit to Malham in the Yorkshire Dales, visiting Liverpool on the return. The students were not only treated to sailing on the new Manxman, but due to flat seas, they even had a display of dolphins surfing the waves on the…
Last week our Year 13 Geographers produced three great presentations on trying to find a sustainable solution for erosion and tourism in Douglas Bay. All groups came up with very different ideas which they had been working over the last few weeks of the summer term in Year 12. They also visited Dou…
We are pleased to announce that we are launching the Tony Roberts Photography Competition again this year. Entries need to be submitted to the Google Classroom by Monday 2nd October. The theme for the competition is, 'Around Me'. This competition is run annually in memory of Tony Roberts, who was o…
All of us at St. Ninian's would like to congratulate our students who received their final GCSE results today. Most students have achieved extremely good sets of results and we are pleased to see so many of them signing up for their place in our Sixth Form or confirming their ongoing course at UCM.…