Friday 29 June 2018



Green Schools Initiatives
·         The Green Team continue to collect and sort our waste each week.
·         They help supervise the younger children who join us on our weekly “Walk on Wednesday” from the Hotel Car Park. We have walked every week since February. Great achievement!
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         Wormery
We are very grateful to Lismore Tidy Town’s Committee for developing a wormery in the school as part of “Stop Food Waste” initiative. On a very wet Tuesday, April 24th, representatives from the Tidy Towns and Mr. Donal Leahy helped to mix all the materials to fill the timber box -wet straw, hay, paper, cardboard, to ensure the worms have a moist environment to live in. The worms are happy in their new home being fed raw fruit (not citrus), vegetables, egg shells and tea bags. In time, the worms turn this food waste into good quality compost that can be added to the school planters. What a wonderful way to use waste food!

Tearing the wet newspaper

Adding the wet cardboard


Learning how to care for the worms
Mr. Leahy showing us the finished product!
              
·         Global Citizenship Workshop
On May 16th third and fourth classes were visited by Úna Halpin from Global Action Plan to talk to them about Global Citizenship. Úna travelled from Athy early that morning. She explained very clearly that our daily actions and decisions can have an impact on the world. We must have greater awareness of the choices we make. Improving knowledge about sustainable development will benefit us all.
           We have become a “throw away” society. We create more waste now than ever before and waste costs. We must ask ourselves before buying anything “Do I really need this?” Waste disposal is costly for us and the environment. We are only guardians of this earth and we must not do irreparable damage to it.
           We can influence how companies package goods. If we refuse to buy items that use excessive packaging, we will change the habits of the manufacturers. We also need to be aware of the “Fair trade” symbol and only buy products displaying this symbol. This means that workers have been paid a fair wage.
Úna Halpin in Fourth Class
                 



        
          Global Citizen Workshop 2
First and Second Class had a workshop with Will Mitchell from Global Action on May 30th. This workshop was also on the theme of global citizenship. Will explained global warming and its effects to the children in very simple terms. Will explained that the ozone layer was like a blanket over the world, keeping everybody safe underneath. When we create too much carbon, we damage the blanket.  The children questioned him and wanted to know how to protect the earth.



Monday 18 June 2018


Beekeeper Visit

On Wednesday June 13th, First class received a special visit from a local beekeeper, Marek Koziol. He spoke to the class about bees and beekeeping. He brought an empty beehive and a smoker into the classroom to demonstrate how bees pollinate and make honey and beeswax. In addition, the class saw a queen bee and her worker bees in a small container, showing the difference between them. The class had plenty of questions for Marek which he was delighted to answer. Finally, each pupil received a bee sticker. It was a very informative afternoon.  


 
Mr. Koziol in First Class

Smoking the hive

The Queen Bee and the workers

The delicious honeycomb

Sunday 11 March 2018

WOW Day!

Following the success of the Big Travel Challenge, we have decided to have a WOW day every week from now to June. Our first WOW day (Walk On Wednesday) was held on Wednesday 7th March. We met at Lismore House Hotel car park at 8.45 and walked the 750 metres to school.

We hope that as many as possible will join us during the coming weeks.👍

Thursday 1 March 2018




The bad forecast on Monday and Tuesday of Storm Emma affected our numbers! Well done to all who braved the elements.

Tuesday 27 February 2018

Day 10 of Big Travel Challenge


Our Big Travel Challenge was a great success! We were delighted with all the support from our pupils and parents. We have graphed the results of the ten days of the challenge and we hope to start our WOW day on Wednesday 7th of March. Lismore House Hotel Car Park at 8.45 am. 👍

Day 10 of Big Travel Challenge!







Friday 23 February 2018

Big Travel Challenge

We are enjoying great success with our Big Travel Challenge. Our numbers walking to school has been growing steadily day by day. The children are having great fun walking and talking and we really appreciate the help of the parents who walk with us every day. We will publish our travel tracker after Day 10.

Our Notice Board





Sunday 18 February 2018

February Big Travel Challenge



               Survey of modes of transport used to come to school on 7/2/18

ClassWalkBusCarCar PoolCyclePark'n StrideScooter
6th36181001
5th / 6th7980000
5th82131000
4th73141011
3rd / 4th93111000
3rd112161002
2nd36162001
1st44195000
Senior Infants M.K24121000
Senior Infants M.B24181000
Junior Infants MO'M24150000
Junior Infants M.M25102000
Total605217016015



Our Green School's Committee have accepted the February Big Travel Challenge. We are promoting walking to school on ten consecutive days beginning on Monday 12th of February. We sent a letter to all families seeking their co-operation. We met in the Hotel car park on the first morning eager to walk on the snow covered footpaths. Our numbers have been increasing steadily and we hope more will join us next week. We record the number who walk in each class everyday and we display the results on the Green School's notice board.
                                                     Come and join in the fun!