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Category Archives: Green Schools
Laudato ‘Si : Playing Our Part
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
Many thanks to PA's Gardening Committee & @msgill for little climate-friendly mini Christmas trees: in pots, decorated with cranberries, dried clementines with a cone for the topper. They will be replanted after the festive season to continue growing. #GreenSchools pic.twitter.com/k733LVr0tj
— Merry's Class (@Merry_s_Class) December 3, 2018
Appreciation of Trees – Art
RS2Photography via Compfight
If you click on THIS link
you will see a slideshow of art: trees that we drew.
We love Art
and we love Nature.
We love to see trees: their leaves, their branches, their bark.
We love their different shapes and colours.
We invite you to take a look at our work.
A Super Website – If It Were My Home – Global Citizenship
On this website you can compare your home country to other countries in terms of size, the economy, health, environment, and quality of life.
Click HERE to start comparing.
Growing and Sowing with the Parents’ Association.
Today the Gardening Committee from the Parents’ Association worked
with Junior Infants on the ‘Grow It Yourself Sow & Grow’ scheme.
The children planted aubergines, radishes, courgettes,
squash and carrots.
The extra cups that were used
are ‘used cups’ from the Happy Pear
getting a second life as plant pots
and are fully compostable once they are done.
Milk cartons were upcycled as watering cans too.
Many thanks Rebecca, Aoife, Melissa, Sharon and Bronwen
from the Parents’ Association
who organised this interesting and exciting activity
for the three Junior Infant classes.
Growing Iris and Freesia for Mother’s Day – Green School Activities – 5th Class, Room 12 – Ms. Ní Chárthaigh’s Class
Survey: How many nationalities are there in the school?
Ms. Murray’s students did a survey to find out how many nationalities are there in the school. They found out that there are students in the school from fifteen different countries all over the world. Students in our school come from:
China
Germany
Haiti
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Philippines
Poland
Romania
Spain
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States of America
Ár Scoil Ghlas – Seachtain na Gaeilge – Is scoil glas muid!
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’ Meeting
The Green Schools’ Committee met today at 2pm in Room 4
Green school representatives from 2nd to 6th attended.
It would be great if teachers allowed their Green School’s Rep
a couple of minutes to inform the class
what was discussed in the meeting.
Thank you.
Green Schools: What is Global Citizenship and what is its connection with Litter and Waste?
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.’
Our Green School Journey So Far
We have five green flags so far and are working towards our sixth.
Litter & Waste Management (2005)
Energy Awareness & Conservation (2007)
Water – Its Uses & Conservation (2009)
Sustainable Transport (2011)
Biodiversity (2014)
The sixth one is Global Citizenship (Litter & Waste)
‘The peoples of the earth are one family’ – A Quote from Ruth Fulton Benedict
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.” A Quote from M. Scott Peck
The Green School Noticeboard
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
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)
A surprise in the school garden
Can you guess what is growing in the garden? We were surprised when we saw what was growing there. Here is a photo. What do you think these are? Please leave your guesses in the comments below!
UPDATE: You can discover what these mystery objects are HERE.
The Green School Notice Board
Wake up Green Schools Blog !
Wake up Green Schools Blog.
We are doing Green Schools again!
Time to renew our Edublogs subscription 🙂
Green Schools – Sustainable Transport
Russ Seidel via Compfight
Safety tips from Green Schools Travel
– Always be bright and be seen
– Always stay on pavements or footpaths
– Always use pedestrian crossings or lollipop wardens
– Always be responsible near roads
– Always remember the Safe Cross Code
– Always take care when crossing cycle lanes
Green Schools – Water
Green Schools – Let’s be energy aware!
Green Schools: Make us happy. Recycle.
Green Schools – Biodiversity
C. P. Ewing via Compfight
In 2014 we earned our flag in Biodiversity.
We learned to appreciate the world around us.
In particular we learned a lot about bees and snow leopards.
Green Schools: Sustainable Transport
In 2011 we earned our Green Flag in Sustainable Transport.
We still try to Walk to School on Wednesdays
when the weather is good.