Green Schools Committee 2019 - 2020

The Green Schools committee is made up of 8 members. 
Katie and Abbie in 6th Class
Layla and Brooke in 5th Class
Casey in 4th Class
Alannah in 3rd Class
Layla Rose in 2nd Class
Daisy Lee in 1st Class 

Planting vegetables and herbs

Well done to the Green School Committee. We came first place in the Ballymun Beautiful Spaces competition. 

Look at our 5 Star Bug Hotels 

Poster and Slogan Competition 

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Green Schools Biodiversity poster competition. The girls from Junior Infants to Sixth class all took part in the competition and a finalist was chosen from each class. 
Well done to all the girls in the school for their fantastic  entries. 
Congratulations to the winners - 
Junior Infants - Zuzanna 
Senior Infants - Nicole
First Class - Aicha
Second Class - Zara
Third Class - Victoria
Fourth Class - Lena
Fifth Class - Julia
Sixth Class - Tayo 

5th Class girls making bird feeders

Junior Infants won the Golden Boot

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Senior Infants won the Golden Boot

2nd Class won the Golden Boot

The Golden and Silver Boots are Back!!!

Each class received a Travel survey to complete each week. We hope to see the girls travelling to school in an environmentally friendly way - walk, cycle, scoot to school. The winning class will receive the Golden Boot!!

5th and 6th class girls planting daisies, snowdrops and violas  near our log pile.

Time to get to work!

Well done to the girls on the Green Schools committee and 5th class for all their work on our school garden. There was a lot of work to be done and all their hard work is greatly appreciated. Hopefully we will have lovely daffodils and tulips growing here in spring. 

First Class exploring our school grounds

Look at our fantastic posters and tips for water conservation

Welcome Back to School

We are very busy working towards our fifth Green flag for Biodiversity and ensuring we are keeping up to date with the previous themes - litter and waste, energy, travel and water. The sneaky peeks are on their rounds during yard time to make sure all classrooms are recycling and saving energy and water. Everyone is doing a fantastic job. Keep up the great work. 

Green School Committee 2018 - 2019

Meet the Green Schools Committee - Kayla in 6th Class, Katie and Abbey in 5th Class, Brooke in 4th Class, Casey in 3rd Class, Alannah in 2nd Class and Layla Rose in 1st Class. 

Over the next two years we will be working on our fifth theme, Biodiversity, in the Green Schools Programme. Our Green School Committee are very busy working to keep our school environmentally friendly. All previous Green School themes will be revisited - litter and waste, energy, travel and water. 
Throughout the year teachers and students support Green Schools by integrating environmental issues during SPHE and SESE lessons.

Our committee are busy doing spot checks in classrooms during lunch time making sure lights, computers and taps are off and that the girls and teachers are putting the right rubbish into the right bins. 

Litter Picking

5th and 6th Class Biodiversity Workshop

3rd and 4th Class Biodiversity Workshop

5th Class Busy Learning  Outside the Classroom

2nd Class meeting and learning all about 'Laura the Lamb'

First Class Planting Lettuce Seeds

Senior Infants learning about the different types of trees on our school grounds

4th Class Visit the Rediscovery Centre

Green School Flag

We did it!!

We have been awarded our 4th Green Flag for Travel!!! 
Massive congratulations to EVERYBODY. This was a whole school effort and we are so happy that we successfully achieved our flag. 
Special thanks to our amazing committee. 
Senior committee members went to DCU for the awards ceremony. We had a blast. 
Looking forward to our day of action on Thursday 22nd June. We will be raising the flag on this day. 

Trip to Ikea

Ikea very kindly invited us to visit their shop. Ikea showed us all the ways in which they are trying to help the environment. We liked their water saving taps, their bamboo kitchen accessories, the sawdust furniture but most of all their fair trade chocolate! 

Raffle and colouring competition

Congratulations to Helena, Clea, Olivia, Victoria and Mia who won the raffle for the bags of clothes. We raised money for the school by recycling clothes. 
Also, congratulations to the winners of the WOW shoe colouring competition. 

flag 3 - water