Before & After our Evenings of Action – Thank you!
Green Schools
Our Evenings of Action
Our sincere thanks to all the volunteers, both adults and children, who worked tirelessly and enthusiastically during Evenings of Action to make our school grounds attractive, educational and child friendly. A special word of thanks to Mr. James Maguire (The Lawn Turf Farm) for his generous donation of roll out grass and compost to the … Read more
Big Travel Challenge 2024
The Green Schools’ committee received some wonderful news today from Green Schools’ Ireland: “Congratulations! We are thrilled to inform you that your school has been chosen as‘Wicklow County Winner’ for this year’s Big Travel Challenge! We want to thank you for your enthusiastic participation and outstanding efforts in the competition!” Well done, everyone!
Golden Boot Award
Well done to the children in 5th Class who win the Golden Boot this term. An amazing 80% of them walked, parked & strode, carpooled or cycled on their journeys to school since Christmas! Overall, 63% of children in the school chose green modes of travel this term – 14% walked; 39% parked & strode; … Read more
Golden Boot Award
Our Junior Infants win the Golden Boot again this term, with 70.4% of them participating in Walk on Wednesday. Well done, Junior Infants! Overall, 60% of the children in the school chose green modes of travel this term – 15% walked; 36% parked and strode; 8% carpooled or used public transport; and less than 1% … Read more
Our winning decorations
Well done to the two children whose decorations were chosen to represent the school at Wicklow Co. Council’s Recyclable Christmas Tree Decorations Competition. Sincere thanks to all the children who participated in the competition and produced amazing decorations and to our judges, Mrs Mc Connell, Ms Dalton, Mrs O Toole Byrne and Mrs Morgan who … Read more
Recyclable Christmas Tree Decorations Competition
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas! The children have been busy making Christmas Tree decorations out of recycled materials. Two winning entries will be chosen to represent the school at the Wicklow Co. Council final. Have a look at some of this year’s beautiful decorations.
Global Citizenship Food and Biodiversity Awareness Survey
As we start work on the 10th theme of the Green Schools’ Programme, the Green Schools’ Committee recently conducted an awareness survey in all classes of food and biodiversity. These were our results:
October in 2nd Class – Space Month
October saw us investigating the theme Space. We created rockets in Science/Art, painted the solar system, researched different planets, created our own imaginary planets and persuaded each other that our imaginary planet was the best one to visit. We also presented an assembly about space to the whole school and taught them the mnemonic My … Read more