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!
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
The school took part in the Big Travel Challenge between 1 February 2022 and 14 February 2022 and promoted “Park & Stride” as its chosen mode of sustainable transport in which an increase in participation could be expected. Before the challenge began, 26% of the children indicated that they normally parked and strode to school. … Read more
Children’s Books Ireland advocates for well-stocked school libraries to guide young readers and runs a annual book gifting scheme for schools. This year, our school has been selected to receive An Bosca Leabharlainne – a box of 25 original Irish language books handpicked by Laureate na nÓg, Áine Ní Ghlinn. In addition, as part of the … Read more
Congratulations to all the children who took part in Wicklow Co. Council’s annual Recyclable Christmas Tree Decorations Competition. The decorations were made out of recycled materials and had to be weather-proof this year. Our Christmas tree looks absolutely wonderful with its many attractive decorations. The children took great care and spent much time designing their … Read more
Well done to the children in 2nd Class who win the Golden Boot again this term. An amazing 81% of them used green modes of travel on their journey to school this term! Overall, 56% of the children took part in Walk on Wednesday this term – 11% walked to school; 38% parked and strode; … Read more
Some of the beautiful entries made by the children for Wicklow Co. Council’s Recyclable Christmas Tree Decorations…
On Friday 8 October, St Mary’s and St. Gerard’s NS was awarded its 8th Green Flag for Global Citizenship Marine Environment at a virtual Green Flag Award Ceremony hosted by An Taisce. On Friday last, 26th November, we gathered in a socially distanced manner as a school to raise our latest green flag and to celebrate … Read more
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
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