Greenschools

Green-Schools flag

We recieved our flag today for Global Citizenship litter and waste. We had a lovely day out and enjoyed working on this flag for the past 2 years.



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Poster competition winners

Well done to the winners of the Green-Schools competition :-)





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Biodiversity green flag

 

  

 

 Congratulations to everyone on receiving the green-flag for biodiversity..A lot of hard work went into it. Well done :-)

   

 

 

  

Food miles workshop

 

  

  

 The senior room enjoyed learning all about food miles today. We looked at many different foods and calculated how far each food had traveled.  We then looked at the effect that this has on the environment.

 

 

 


   

 

 

  

Heritage visit!

 

  

 

The whole school enjoyed a visit from Michael Bell from the Heritage Council. We learned alot about biodiversity today. We learned about tress, their leaves, plants and birds in Ireland. He also brought in a whale's rib bone, a part of his spine and a pinemartin. 

   

 

 

  

Pollution projects

 

  

 The Senior Room completed projects about pollution. They discussed water, air and land pollution. They completed these at home and then presented them to the class. Well done everyone.

   

 

 

  

Minibeast hunt

 

  

 

 The whole school enjoyed a minibeast hunt around the school. They found snails, centipedes, millipedes, woodlice, spiders and slugs.

   

 

 

  

Bird feeders

 

  

 

 ï»¿The Senior Room made bird feeders using recycling materials . We continue to work on the biodiversity flag. We are applying for this flag in March.

 

 

  

Flower beds

 

  

  The Flower beds have been cleared out. They will be ready for planting in the next school year.

 

 

 

  

Farm visit

 

  

 

 

 

The Junior room had a very enjoyable visit to a farm in Frenchpark. Many thanks to the Devines for facilitating. 











   

 

 

  

Nature walk

 

  

 

 

 The Junior room enjoyed a nature walk around the vicinity of the school. They identified plants an d trees.








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Lambs' visit

 

  

 

 

 

 
 Many thanks to Ms. Kilkenny for bringing in 2 lambs today, M and M. The students really enjoyed their visit.

   

 

 

  

Visit to the bog

 

  

As part of the Green-Schools flag, the senior room visited our local bog. Previous to this, we received a very informative virtual visit from the Irish Peatland Conservation Council.

 

 

  

Awarded Green-Schools flag

We are delighted to have been awarded the Green-Schools flag for travel. We thoroughly enjoyed working on this flag. We look forward to working on the next one :-) Many thanks to everyone for their help. 

Travel poster competition

Congratulations to Kasey, Kyle , Talor and Robert who were the winners of the poster competition in the senior room. All winner s in each room recieved prizes. Well done to all students as it was extremely to choose the winners. 


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Middle room winners!

Well done to Michaela, Patrick and Jamie who won the poster competition in the middle room.





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Junior room winners!

Congratulations to the Junior room who created a poster with" do more of certain green travel modes and do less of other modes of transport. "

Foodmile workshop!

The senior room participated in a foodmile workshop today for our travel flag. We looked at different food items and worked out how far each food item travels and how it affects the environment. 










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Group cycle 

June 2019-
Many thanks to Noel and others from Roscommon Sports Partnership for bringing the Senior room on a group cycle today.  They have enjoyed their sessions with Noel the last few weeks.


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Traffic calming 

June 2019- We are delighted to be featured in this week's Roscommon Herald.  





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Cycle right  training

May 2019- The Senior room commenced their cycle training this week.  We have two more days left. We really enjoyed it. 

Cycle right training 


RSA talk 

May 2019- We welcomed Catherine from Road Safety Authority of Ireland. She spoke to each classroom about road safety. 



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Scooter workshop

May 2019:  The Junior room had an enjoyable scooter workshop with Lisa.










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Road safety 

March 2019- We invited Guarda Martin Coyle to our school to discuss road safety. He also told us about his job. We informed him of our plans for a slow down campaign for the traffic passing our school. He said he would loved to get involved and we will contact him closer to the time. 






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Walk audit

Work has commenced on our fourth Green flag- Travel. Lisa from Green schools kindly brought us on a short walk up to Cooneys and then the church. The purpose of this walk was to identify the amount of traffic passing the school and any positive / negative feedback about safety. 

Water flag 

 We were recently awarded with our third Green Flag for water.  This involved a lot of hard work by the school and the Green Schools Committee. Our aim was to make people more aware of their water usage and to reduce their water usage.  We are glad to report that the school's water usage reduced from 9 litres per person per day to 6 litres per person per day. We completed hard work over the year to achieve this Green Flag:
  • Checked the water meter on a daily basis to monitor usage 
  • Reduced our water usage in school and at home
  • Blue Day- Raised money to buy a water butt and to donate money to a charity
  • Bought a water butt to re harvest water 
  • Green Schools Committee designed a water saving tips leaflet 
  • We made our own cleaning products and air fresheners 

Raising of our flag

Fintan Cregg from the Roscommon Football Team kindly rasied our flag in June 2018.

Football with Fintan

After raising our Green Flag , FIntan had a friendly game of football with the children in the school. 

Green Schools Committee

Our current Green Schools Committee are as follows

4th class: Robert Perrie, Kasey Doris, Tara Drury
5th class: Cillian Harrington, Colin Drury, Chloe Lavin 
6th class: Emmett Harrington, Izabel Mooney Boalch, Ethan Young 
Teacher: Andrea Mc Crann 

Green Flags

We have achieved three Green Schools flags altogether. The previous two flags we achieved were for energy and recycling. We still maintain these 2 themes also in the school.