Category Archives: Green Schools

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.

Our Green School’s Officer, Ciaran, came to our school to talk to us about his cycle from Japan to Ireland. The journey lasted 6 months and he travelled through 14 countries. We loved hearing about all the exciting things that happened along the way. Ciaran showed us his bike with all the equipment that he […]

We are working towards our 12th Green Flag with An Taisce and our Theme is Global Citizenship -Travel. We are taking part in the Big Travel Challenge. Each day all pupils and staff walk, scoot or cycle to and from school for 10 days. We are really enjoying this and it is a great start […]

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.