Category Archives: Green Schools

Our strawberries, potatoes and wild-flower bed are doing really well. We enjoy watching them grow and taking care of them.

Pupils from Clonown N.S. enjoying Bike Week. We walk, scoot or cycle to school every Wednesday, It is so much fun and pupils really enjoy this initiative. Today was particularly enjoyable in the lovely weather.

Ross Cochrane, from Heritage in Schools, came recently for a nature awareness and appreciation workshop. The children had a fantastic day. We would highly recommend this informative and interactive day with Ross. Our pupils gained alot from it. We are working towards our 13th Green Glag and this project is very important to us. We […]

Pupils in the Junior Room learned about bees in their Rainbow English Programme over the last couple of weeks. They then focused on bees for their procedure writing. They drew and cut out their own bees. Finally the children planted marigold seeds. They had lots of fun. Our pupils are really good at watering and […]

Pupils on our Green School Committee attended the Canal Awareness Event in the Shamrock Lodge Hotel on Thursday. Well done to Athlone Canal Heritage Committee, Our Lady’s Bower and all the guest speakers on a brilliant event. We thoroughly enjoyed it. We went for a walk along our lovely canal before returning to school.

This time the children focused on collage with Catherine. They first learned about Henri Rousseau and studied his famous Jungle Collage. Then the children created their own jungle collage using old magazines, coloured card and their own drawings on white paper. The results were fabulous; a lovely way to spend an afternoon.  Thank you Catherine.

Well done to all our pupils who took part in the Big Build Engineering Competition sponsored by ORS. Congratulations to the group in the Senior Room who won a prize for their Castle and Dragon. There were also prize winners in 1st Class for their Town creation and a 2nd Class pupil for his Robot […]

Following on from Catherine’s art lesson last week, the Juniors had their opportunity to study, paint and eat watermelons! They practised mixing primary colours and explored how to make colours darker/lighter. They did a super job.

Thanks to Owen Murphy from National Parks and Wildlife Services for his great presentation to the children today on the Curlew Conservation Programme. We learned a great deal, for example: there has been a 97% decline in curlew numbers since the 1980s the curlew habitat is disappearing the National Parks and Wildlife Curlew Conservation programme […]

We were delighted when our school was awarded the Artist in Schools Programme. This programme is funded by Roscommon Co. Council and involves an artist coming to our school every week for 7 weeks to deliver the programme. Catherine came today for the afternoon and the children had a brilliant time. Firstly they studied the […]