Category Archives: Green Schools

On Friday we celebrated Culture Night during the day in school! Laureate na nÓg Áine Ní Ghlinn and the Arts Council produced a fun and interactive online event especially for primary schools. Ag Buzzáil leis an Laureate was a bilingual poetry and drawing workshop presented by Laureate na nÓg Áine Ní Ghlinn with special guest […]

We are all settled back to school and very happy to see our friends again. We are delighted to welcome our four new pupils to our school. We are a committed Green School and every Wednesday we walk to and from school together. It is brilliant fun and we enjoy one another’s company on the […]

We were awarded our 12th Green Flag from An Taisce recently. As a committed Green School, the staff and pupils worked hard on their recent project, Global Citizenship – Travel. We celebrated our award with a trip on the Viking Boat. What better way to spend an afternoon together 🙂

This week we focused on how to use our back brakes properly. We also learned about hand signals which are really important. The rain didn’t dampen our spirits and we really enjoyed today’s class. We are looking forward to next week.

Our teacher did a science course over the last 7 months with Curam at NUI Galway. As a result Curam gave our whole school a free trip to Galway Aquarium which included a guided tour of the aquarium in groups with Maria and a science workshop with Sarah from Curam. We had a brilliant day. […]

Pupils in our Junior Room had a brilliant morning. Ciaran Hussey from An Taisce did a Scooter Workshop with them on our school grounds. Ciaran played a selection of games with the children and organised drills with them to practise safer scooting. We are working towards our 12th Green Flag and our theme is Global […]

Pupils in the Senior Room started their Cycle Right training today. Darragh talked to the children about the ‘M check’ before they get on their bikes. He also spoke about the importance of wearing a helmet and high-vis clothing. The children will bring their bikes to school for the next workshop and they will practise […]

Pupils in the Senior Room enjoyed a trip to Dublin Zoo recently to celebrate the Easter holidays. We had a great time together looking at all the animals and playing in the playground.  

To celebrate the week of the Easter holidays, pupils in the Junior Room enjoyed a trip to Glendeer Pet Farm. They had a brilliant day there as always. We are very lucky to have this great amenity so close to our school.

Spring has truly arrived this week! We enjoyed the lovely weather and decided to start our planting for spring/summer. We planted lots of different herbs, cosmos and sunflowers so far. We got the sunflower seeds from the flowers which we planted last year.