A message from the Green Council - 2nd March 2016
National SOW Day and Scoot to School Week
National Scoot to School Week 2016 takes place from Monday, March 7th to Friday, March 11th.
Scooting is a great way to get to school quickly, safely and easily for children of all ages.
Students, parents and teachers are encouraged to join with schools across Ireland on National SOW Day (Scoot to School on Wednesday) - Wednesday March 9th - and scoot to school, which aims to encourage children and their families to travel to school via sustainable and active modes of transport.
Don’t worry if you don’t have a scooter! You can always cycle, walk, park n stride, bus n stride to school too.
On Wednesday we will take a photo of all the children on their scooters and bikes and post it on our school website.
Check out the amazing biodiversity posters that were submitted to the green council lately
Derek's Class recently performed a bioversity rap - see the lyrics here.
The school has Green Council, made up of a parent, and a teacher with representatives from classes 2nd to 6th (one girl and one boy where possible).
We are focusing on water and saving it. We have a container for rain water and then we use it to water our yard plants.
The green council have earned the school two Green Flags from An Taisce. The Green Flag is for schools that don't waste water and keep plants healthy and stay green. We are very proud of our two Green Flags.
Water is so precious - let us keep what we got safe!
We [us in the green council] never use good paper we always use scrap paper! The school also has about seven compost bins. We are always telling people not to put plastic and papers in because its not an ordinary bin. We use compost as are soil to plant plants. We have four giant green compost in witch we wait a long time so it can turn into compost to be useable.
Did you know that 99% of the world's water can not be used because it's either salt water or locked up in glaciers?
The Green Council which is currently managed by Cathal meet every second or third week in the afternoon at 2.30pm. They have done tremendous work in the school, not only have they suceeded in getting us two Green Flags from An Taisce but they are continuously striving to keep the green spirit alive in the school. Some of their achievements include:
- Turn It Off! campaign
- Composting in every class and in the staff room
- Paper recycling throughout the school
- Art made out of recycled rubbish
- Door draught excluders
- Monitoring the heating
- Collecting used stamps
- Collecting and recycling used ink cartridges
- "No car days" days
- Monitoring the use of water
- General attention to detail around the school