We were very lucky to have Jacqui Dearden, from St. Peter’s College, Oxford in school on Wednesday to run a series of workshops for Year 8/9 and Year 10/11 students on aiming higher. The Year 8/9s worked on problem solving and ‘deep thinking’ tasks and the Year10/11 were given the chance to answer…
Congratulations to the senior boys who beat Ramsey 33-24 in the Rugby Semi Final to claim a place in the final. It is the first time St. Ninian’s have reached the Senior Rugby final in 27 years. The final will be on Wednesday (27th) at Ramsey Rugby Club under the floodlights with a 6.15pm kick off.…
Congratulations to the Year 8 girls who finished 2nd in their recent hockey tournament at QE2. On a very cold afternoon, the girls played against the rest of the IOM secondary schools narrowly missing out on being unbeaten and therefore finishing second. A big well done to all the girls that took p…
Paul McCann, lead nurse at Nobles's Hospital Neonatal Unit, led our Sixth Form assembly on Tuesday for International Men's Day. He gave a very informative talk on his career choice, observing that when he first trained, it was a very female dominated profession. Thankfully this is not the case now.…
This week saw the inter house cross country competitions take place for the students at both lower and upper school. All year groups were exceptional in their effort and performance and gaining valuable points for their house. Well done to all the individual winners in each year group. The final ho…
This morning, Jon Whiting Senior Advisory Manager for PWC came to visit the LIBF Level 3 Certificate in Financial Studies students and Year 13 BTEC Enterprise and Entrepreneurship students. Jon spent the morning discussing the Earnings topic of the syllabus and provided students with a wealth of kn…
Last week, staff and students from the school were involved in a number of remembrance events. Students from Lower School joined Miss White in representing St Ninian’s at the Schools’ Remembrance Service at St Peter’s Church, Onchan on Saturday. They braved the terrible weather to plant crosses in…
Year 12 Politics students visited the Manx parliament for a tour of the legislative chambers today, before taking a seat in the public gallery for a Tynwald court sitting. The students had a very informative talk from ex SNHS head student, Peter Smith, who gave a detailed insight into the island's…
On Thursday 14th November Year 13 had their Life Skills Enrichment Day, which was organised in consultation with students to cover aspects of life and living which they felt to be relevant to their future. Sessions included basic self-defence, life support, using technology to support personal orga…