Our Ukrainian Welcome Tree
Our Fourth and Fifth Class pupils created a beautiful ‘Welcome Tree’ for our school lobby.
4th Class
Globe Programme Results
The results of GLOBE Air Quality campaign, measuring nitrogen dioxide at schools around the country, are back! Each school received a nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentration value for each of their three tubes. The concentration of NO2 captured in diffusion tubes is expressed in micrograms (µg) per cubic metre (m3). Each result represents an average NO2 concentration … Read more
Globe campaign launched!
Today is an exciting day as we join over 150 schools around Ireland in putting up their Nitrogen Dioxide monitoring! Collectively we will gather hundreds of measurements of traffic-related pollution at Irish schools. Our thanks to Peter for helping us out!
The Globe Programme
In March, as part of the school’s work on Global Citizenship Travel, the children in 4th Class will undertake the GLOBE Air Quality Campaign, a citizen science project to assess traffic-related air pollution at schools. This project is funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EEU of An Taisce, the GLOBE programme and the … Read more
🏃♀️ More Cross Country Success! 🏃♂️🥇🥈🥉
Wow! Wow! Wow! What a school, what wonderful children and runners and what great teamwork! We had another successful day on Thursday 25th November. This time we had a much larger number of children competing in the Wicklow Open Cross Country Event, with up to 8 boys and 8 girls from each class representing St. … Read more
Sporting Success! 🥈🥉🥉🥉
It was an early start for our Relay Teams on 4th November as we took the bus at 8:30am to head to Avondale for the Wicklow Invitational Cross Country Relays. We had a great day out. It was wonderful to be out in the fresh air, running and competing. All our children ran their best, … Read more
Intel Mini Scientist 2021
There has been great excitement over the past week with students presenting projects to their classmates and to a panel of judges. The judges were really impressed with the level of research, the teamwork and the high quality of presentation. Well done to all 53 students from 4th, 5th and 6th Classes! We are really … Read more
Fourth Class Trip to Knocksink Woods
Fourth Class had a great class trip to Knocksink Woods on Thursday 17th June. We enjoyed our hike through the woods. Highlights of the day include: finding the ruins of an old stone cottage, working together to complete a den we came across, hiking up to the pond and ancient kiln, picnicing, making up little … Read more
Congratulations to Our Green Schools Creative Writing Winners
Click below to read their winning stories and poems Koa the Spinner Dolphin by Caoimhe Under the Waves by Caragh Deep by Amelia
Breaking News: Winners in the Green Schools’ National Marine Creative Writing Competition
Green Schools announced the winners of its first ever National Marine Creative Writing Competition today. Judges were blown away by the talent and creativity displayed by all the children. Entries were judged on the basis of plot, originality, spelling, punctuation and content. St. Mary’s and St. Gerard’s was proud to learn that three of our … Read more