The Big Travel Challenge 2023 results are in! On 31 January 2023, before the Big Challenge started, 35% of our children parked and strode on their journey to school. During the Big Travel Challenge, 46% of children parked and strode to school. An additional 13% of children also walked to school during the Big Travel … Read more
Congratulations to the children in 4th Class who win the Golden Boot again this term-an amazing 87% of them used green modes of travel on their journey to school since Halloween! Overall, 58% of the children took part in Walk on Wednesday in November and December – 8% walked to school; 39% parked and strode; … Read more
Our hearty congratulations to the two pupils whose recyclable Christmas Tree decorations win the 2022 school-based competition. Their decorations will represent the school at the county finals later this week – we wish them well. Sincere thanks to all the children who participated in the competition and produced amazing decorations and to our judges, Ms … Read more
Well done to the children in 4th Class who win the Golden Boot this term. An amazing 74% of them used green modes of travel on their journey to school this term! Overall, 57% of the children took part in Walk on Wednesday since September – 14% walked to school; 38% parked and strode; 6% … Read more
On Wednesday, all the classes gathered outside on, what was a beautiful autumn morning, to chat about the different class activities completed to remind us of Climate Change. Each class representative spoke about what we can do to help slow down its affects of our lives. Two of our Ukrainian children happily translated for our … Read more
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
Congratulations to the children in 6th Class who win the Golden Boot this term. Leading by example, an amazing 75% of them used green modes of travel on their journey to school this term! Overall, 53% of the children took part in Walk on Wednesday from Easter to June – 8% walked to school; 34% … Read more
Congratulations to the children in 5th Class who win the Golden Boot this term, narrowly pipping the children in 6th Class by less than 1%. An amazing 74.27% of them used green modes of travel on their journey to school this term! Overall, 61% of the children took part in Walk on Wednesday from Christmas … Read more
St. Mary’s and St. Gerard’s NS is delighted to announce that Amelia (5th Class) has been awarded 2nd place in the 5th & 6th Class category of the Green Schools’ National Marine Creative Writing Competition. The aim of the competition is for individual students to create an original piece of creative writing inspired by the theme … Read more
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!