Our theme in the Junior Room this month is Autumn. In Aistear last week we went on an autumn trail outdoors and found autumn leaves, acorns, pine cones and berries. We discussed hibernation and made trees & autumn animals hibernating with playdough. We learned about trees and why their leaves change colour, and then created […]
Category Archives: Green Schools
11
Sep
Sep
What a beautiful day for our Walk on Wednesday. We all love this initiative. We walk to school from the church and back again in the evening. It’s a lovely chance to chat to our friends, get some exercise and enjoy our surroundings.
24
May
May
We celebrated Bike Week recently. Many of our pupils cycle to school everyday, all year round. We are very proud of them. All our pupils and staff walk/scoot to school together each Wednesday. We all enjoy this initiative.
21
May
May
Well done to all our pupils and staff on being awarded our 13th Green Flag. What a brilliant achievement, all your hard work has paid off! Thank you sincerely to Kian, Logan and Yeva who attended the ceremony in the Radisson with their teacher and received our flag. Thank you An Taisce for this great […]
16
May
May
We held our sunflower day on Friday in aid of Roscommon Hospice. We each wore something yellow to school, planted sunflower seeds, enjoyed a sunflower colouring competition and we managed to raise €100 for Roscommon Hospice. Well done everyone and thank you for your participation for this great cause.
10
May
May
Well done to all our pupils on winning the Athlone & Castlerea Green Schools Sustainability Competition. We received a lovely plaque, a certificate and €500 for our school. Thank you to Claire for visiting our school today to make this presentation to our pupils. You will find details below of the work completed by the […]
01
May
May
Message from Athlone & Castlerea Credit Union, Green Schools Sustainability Awards. Athlone & Castlerea Credit Union would like to thank you for your participation in this years “Green Schools Sustainability Awards”! We were overwhelmed with entries this year and so impressed with the level of sustainability projects schools are participating in. We a thrilled to announce […]
01
May
May
What better way to celebrate Active Week than walking to school with your friends.
15
Apr
Apr
Our 6th Class pupils represented our school at this year’s Canal Awareness Event in the Shamrock Lodge Hotel. This was presented by Athlone Canal Heritage Committee, Our Lady’s Bower and the Marist College. They all did a fantastic job. Guest speakers included George Smith (Blackthorn Ecology), Gearoid O’Brien (local historian & writer), Basil Mannion (Local […]
07
Mar
Mar
Well done to our pupils who attended Science Blast yesterday in the RDS and presented their project on hedgerows to the judges there. We had a fantastic day and we received excellent feedback from the judges. This is a brilliant event and we always enjoy looking at all the other projects from the schools all […]