Tag Archives: Green Schools

Laudato ‘Si : Playing Our Part

Meadow Saffron

Pope Francis has written a letter addressed to every person on the planet,

asking us all to look after Planet Earth. It is called Laudato ‘SI.

We can all play our part.

If you click on THIS link from cafod.uk.org you can see

an animation of what Pope Francis has to say.

There are more resources HERE

And the letter itself is on THIS link.

St Brigid’s Junior Tidy Towns Beach Clean April 2019

Hi all,

Many thanks again for facilitating the Junior Tidy Towns St Brigid’s Beach Clean. We had a super turn out but due to very cold winds and all kids running enthusiastically on to the beach we didn’t manage to get a photo all together to show it!

The parents and kids picked up a great amount of general rubbish, plastic, cigarette butts, and parents even picked up a lot of broken glass and metal. Huge thanks to everyone who turned up to help on what ended up being quite a cold day.

Many thanks all!

Two Feathered Visitors

Hi there,

Many thanks to all the teachers and pupils for letting chickens, Cagney and Henrietta, visit today. All the boys and girls were so good. And huge thanks to Benjamin’s mum, Sharon Strong and Transition Year student Joe for helping bring the chickens around and showing the kids all the different types of eggs and answering lots of questions.

Kind regards, Rebecca.

Click HERE to see a slideshow of our visitors.

Thank you to Rebecca, Cal and Elliot’s Mum for bringing in the chickens for the Junior classes to see. We learned about Rhode Island Reds and how to tell if a hen will lay a brown egg, or a white one. It was a real education for us all.

National Tree Week: Planting trees to combat climate change – March 31st to 7th April, 2019

Tree Week, organised by the Tree Council of Ireland since 1985 is a week long programme of events to celebrate trees and this year the theme is planting for the planet to combat climate change. Rebecca and Aoife, from the Parents’ Association Gardening Committee helped member of the Student Council to plant trees provided by Wicklow County Council.

Forests help reduce climate change effects by reducing the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is the main greenhouse gas responsible for climate change and emissions of it from man-made sources have been increasing year on year since the 1950s.

Trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere for growth, convert it to sugars and wood and release pure oxygen back to the atmosphere.

Wicklow County Council has provided us with five Native irish trees, the bud identifier pic above will help you identify which is which. You will have to click on the photo to enlarge it.

Click on THIS link to see the work that was done.

A Spring ‘Makeover’ for the School Grounds

The school grounds received a colourful Spring ‘makeover’ on Friday 25th January, 2019. Pots and window boxes have been replanted. Many thanks to Eimear, grandmother of pupils Ruadhán, Ailbhe and Caoileann, for her generous donation towards these new plants. See the photos below. Thanks too, to parents Rebecca and Aoife who did the planting. The larger pots now hold with evergreen trees should hopefully last a long time. The seasonal bedding plants below the trees add some colour and a taste of Spring. Well done to the ever faithful Parents’ Association Gardening Committee who give so generously of their time, to make the school grounds look so colourful and so welcoming all year round.

#GreenSchools at Christmas

Green Schools – Project Hyacinth Updated

In every classroom in the school ‘PROJECT HYACINTH’ is blooming. Since late November, when the parents from the Gardening Committee delivered a hyacinth bulb to every classroom the children have been watching their progress.

Many of the blooms were pink. Some were blue. We were very interested to see how some grew quickly and some were slower. Some grew very tall and some stayed small. We wondered why this was. A very surprising thing happened to some. After the first flower bloomed and withered, a second one grew. We would like to thank the Gardening Committee for this exciting project.

 

Green Schools: What is Global Citizenship and what is its connection with Litter and Waste?

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So what is Global Citizenship and

what is its connection  with Litter and Waste?

In answer to the first part of the question

the Green-Schools Ireland website explains:

‘This maintenance theme enables schools to discover

how Green-Schools work has positively influenced people

and environments worldwide

while revising the Litter and Waste theme.’ 

The Green School Noticeboard

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The Green School Noticeboard

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Looking closer you can see some information on biodiversity.

Information on Recycling and Fairtrade

We are working towards our sixth green flag – Global Citizenship: Litter&Waste

We are working towards our sixth green flag:

Global Citizenship – Litter and Waste

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The aim of Green Schools is to increase students’ and participant awareness of environmental issues through classroom studies and to transfer this knowledge into positive environmental action in the school and also in the wider community.

Schools that have successfully completed all the elements of the programme are awarded the ‘Green Flag’. The award has to be renewed every two years. We have five Green flags so far and led by Ms. Saoirse Ryan and the Green Schools Committee, we are working towards our sixth.

Litter & Waste Management (2005)

Energy Awareness & Conservation (2007)

Water – Its Uses & Conservation (2009)

Sustainable Transport (2011)

Biodiversity (2014)