Our Green Schools Committee
2021-2023
The Green Schools Committee has been working very hard over the past two months reminding all the classes about our themes and activities ensuring our school is a green space. Our Green Schools Noticeboard displays activities and events for the month. For October our focus was on saving energy, we had a “Switch it Off” month in school. This is a hot topic at present! Children not only learned about saving energy in school but also at home!
Litter picking has commenced in 2nd class. They are doing a fantastic job keeping our yard litter free!
Our local community garda visited our school in October and talked to all the children about road safety under our green schools travel theme.
Our “Bee Garden” was beautiful over the summer months. All the wildflowers bloomed and these flowers provided food for bees which helped them survive. In October our caretaker and the Green Schools Committee will cut and spread the seeds of the wildflowers over the area before clearing up the garden.
For our energy theme we had a “Switch it Off” month in October. Each class picked power savers to turn off all power when leaving the classroom to save energy and money on our ESB bills. Classes learnt about energy and about the importance of turning off appliances when finished helping to save money on our ESB. Please, see the winter ready photo below to know the average cost of popular household appliances.
We will be applying for our new flag Global Citizenship and Marine Environment in November.