Category Archives: Green Schools

Children in the Senior Room enjoyed a trip on the Viking Boat recently from Hodson Bay into Athlone town. There we met Martin Curley from Heritage in Schools who brought us on a Historic Walking Tour of Athlone. We had a brilliant day and the weather was perfect. It was great to enjoy our lovely […]

The children in the Senior Room received a Science Kit from Cell Explorers at NUI Galway. We had great fun extracting DNA from a pumpkin, especially for Halloween! We learned all about living things and how we all have our own DNA.  

Pupils in the Senior Room have organised a Walk on Wednesday event each week. We all walk from the church together in the morning and back again for 3pm. This is part of our Green School Project, Travel Theme. It’s a lovely initiative and we are all really enjoying it.

This year both classrooms went separately to Westshore Survival camp in Monksland. The children had a brilliant day and we cannot recommend this local outdoor camp highly enough. It’s ran by Rob Wallace and the activities include survival skills, team building, leadership skills, camouflage and concealment, escape and evasion (hide and seek) and lots more. […]

The pupils in our Junior Room enjoyed a cycling workshop with Brendan recently. They learned alot about safer cycling and they had great fun. We are very lucky that we have loads of space on our school grounds. The children had a ball on their bikes and scooters. Thank you Brendan! 🙂  

      The Senior Room pupils also had a brilliant day at Glendeer Pet Farm when they went recently. We were so lucky with the weather, the sun shone all day. The staff at Glendeer gave the children great time and attention, it’s the ideal venue for a school tour. The children also had […]

Pupils in the Junior Room had a brilliant day in Glendeer Pet Farm. There was great excitement travelling on the bus the short distance to the farm. The children learned about all the animals, they got to feed many of them and they played in the playground together. We were blessed with the fine weather. […]

We are a committed Green School and we are working towards our 12th Green Flag. We love nature and we are very lucky with our lovely surroundings. We work very hard to look after our school grounds and we never use any chemicals on them. For example, we would never use weed killer as it […]

We take part in Science Blast each year. Our project this year involves germinating lots of different types of seeds. This fits in perfectly with our Green School project also. Below is an email which some of our pupils wrote, to keep our judge in the Science Blast project up-to-date with our progress. We are […]

We are a committed Green School and we are currently working towards our 12th Green Flag. Our theme is Global Citizenship  – Travel. We enjoyed a fantastic safer cycling workshop with Cycle Right recently over a period of 4 weeks. On the final week we went on a big cycle on the bog road towards […]