On Tuesday 28th March the annual presentation of Bronze and Silver Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards took place. The event is organised by Alison Barnes, the award co-ordinator for the island, assisted by staff from the Youth Service. Awards were presented by Malcolm Kelly, one of the first ever recipient…
This week was the last sitting of the Debate Committee for 22/23 before students leave to take their exams. We ended on a controversial but timely topic “This house holds that cancel culture has gone too far’. There were excellent informative and persuasive speeches from both sides, and lots of poi…
This Thursday will be a 'Glad Rags' non-uniform day. Money raised through Glad Rags Days throughout the year supports our epraise rewards and the epraise charity fund. The epraise charity fund is allocated according to student votes at the end of the year for the charities which have been nominated…
Last week we were delighted to host the St. Ninian's One World Centre Charity Challenge Final. It was a great evening, reflecting months of research, advocacy and fundraising from each from the groups. The teams, representing, The Bouncing Ball Trust, Bees Abroad, The UK Langa Township Pre-School T…
We were delighted to be joined by Lisa Wannenberg and the team who shared details of the exciting new Lloyds Bank Islands School Leaver Apprenticeship initiatives. This is an ideal opportunity for enthusiastic students to start their journey with Lloyds Banking Group and gain a professional qualifi…
Our students were delighted to represent St. Ninian's at Deloitte's celebration of International Women's Day. The students took part in table discussion on this year's theme #embraceequality with other students and Deloitte employees. Many thanks to Deloitte for recognising such an important day an…
Our Year 12 Health and Social Care students welcomed Shannon Mylchreest, a Health Visitor, and Sonia Cowin, a Nursery Nurse, from the Health Visiting Team to their lesson last week. Students were able to find out more about child development milestones and the factors that can influence them. The s…
This month, Year 7 took part in the Improvement Project exhibition. Mrs Parr, Miss Clucas and I were delighted to welcome the students’ family and friends into school so that they could see how hard Year 7 have been working. At the beginning of the term, students were asked to choose a skill that t…
To learn more about the Isle of Man Parliament and government, Year 12 Politics students took a trip to the legislative buildings last week. They had a tour of all three chambers, met with MHK Claire Christian and Minister for Education Sport and Culture, Julie Edge, and then sat in the public gall…