Year 9 Pupils Go Green at St. Joseph's

Recently the Geography Department was delighted to welcome Mr Patrick McShane, Environmental             Officer with Newry and Mourne District Council and Pauric McCreesh from REGEN to speak to                         Year 9 students. This talk was to inform pupils for a 'Connected Learning Project' linking Science,             Citizenship, Religion and Geography, which focused on the issue of recycling in the community.                         It also afforded the pupils the opportunity to see how local entrepreneurs have created a business                     out of dealing with their waste. The pupils were then given the task of creating their own recycling                 business and the results of this were very impressive. Year 9 certainly has many budding                     entrepreneurs. The Geography Department would like to thank the guest speakers for generously                 giving of their time and special thanks to REGEN who provided prizes for the quiz.



 

Global Enterprise Week at W5

Sean-Og Cowan and Rebecca O Neill from St. Joseph's, pictured with Aideen Johnson, STEMNET team at W5                                                 in the "Finance Zone" at the recent Invest NI Go for It Step "n" Zones event as part of Global Enterprise Week.                                                 Over 1,000 pupils took part in the two-day event where entrepreneurs of the future explored the potential of                                                 business ideas and worked through them during a series of creative workshops. W5 hosted the "Finance Zone"                                     where pupils worked with STEM ambassadors on calculating profits in a fun but messy Cupcake Challenge!
 

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