Walk to School Wednesday is an event happening this Wednesday morning. All school members- staff and pupils are encouraged to walk / cycle/ get public transport to school on Wednesday 15th November. Our aim is to calculate the total Km achieved collectively by everyone this Wednesday. We can’t wait to see the results!
Yesterday 6th class collected empty spray containers from all teachers in our school. We used herbs from our school garden , bicarbonate of soda , white vinegar, water and essential oils to make our own environmentally friendly eco cleaning spray. Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen, especially 6th class pupils. Another step of the Green Plan completed. More to follow!
How wonderful. Lovely to see our young students creating such environmentally-friendly cleaning products. Maith sibh
Sixth class students and First class students have been very busy collecting waste on a daily basis. Every class in our school is scheduled to engage in litter collecting. We use litter pickers, plastic bags and gloves. Thank you to every student and to every teacher who has taken part so far!
Last Friday, students from Fifth Class helped water the area where the wildflower seed was scattered. Thank you to all of the students who helped out!
This morning wildflower meadow seed was scattered onto the children’s allocated garden area. We had wonderful help watering it and sprinkling compost on the wildflower seed. We look forward to seeing it grow and progress over the next few weeks!
This week we will commence on creating the required Wildflower meadow for The Green Plan! We look forward to seeing this develop over the next few weeks!
I bet they will look AMAZING
Waste Collection: Every day this month, both 1st classes will be busy after lunch collecting waste on our school yard. They have been so busy so far working as a team collecting litter from the yard. Ms O'Briens class are litter pickers for the first two weeks in May, and Ms O Neills class will be busy litter picking for the last two weeks of May. Many thanks to Ms Keane for the lovely photos of the children busy at work!
Our Bug Hotels are ready for weather proofing! The Children have been so busy constructing them, painting and decorating them with acrylic paints. They look so personal and colourful! We hope to weather proof them and add them to the Children’s Garden area very soon! Well done to every child and Support Teacher and SNA who helped make this happen! We really appreciate how lovely they look!
So much hard work put in by the children and staff - they're looking great!
Welcome to the group Paula!
Welcome Paula! Every time you walk to school, let us know so we can add it as part of the 70km No Car mode of getting to school! Great to have you as part of the team Paula!
Thats great Yvonne! We are so lucky to have so many volunteers as it is!!!!! Thanks Killian for your kind words!
Killian from Change X emailed yesterday to congratulate us on being awarded funding through the Accenture Sustainable Community Challenge. He also offered to help us find volunteers for our project.
We have been able to get our school greener through the funding that the Green Plan Change x has allocated to us. We have been able to get many resources to help us achieve the various steps. The pupils and staff have enjoyed partaking in the many activities. It has made us more aware of keeping our school a greener cleaner place. We are so thankful to Changex for this positive experience !
We have been busy painting and decorating our bug hotels over the past few days. Our Green Flag Student Leaders are creating lovely colourful hotels for bugs to enjoy soon! Well done!
They look soooo cute ❤️❤️❤️
Some of our students have already created some beautiful bug hotels . We need to weatherproof them before putting them outdoors for bugs to enjoy! Many thanks to Ms Deegan for working on this with her pupils !
Our Bug Hotels have arrived ! We are looking forward to building them and for Kieran to place them outside along our new school garden !
Can't wait to see them in situ!
How exciting! I can't wait to see the finished product
The ladies at Thomond House were delighted to receive the cans of food yesterday! Thanks to our SNA Jo Lloyd and Kieran our caretaker for dropping them over to them yesterday!
