UN End Poverty Day
Last Thursday (October 17th) was U.N. End Poverty Day. Schools around Ireland were urged to join in the action #FootstepsToEndPoverty. Have a look at what our First Class children created.
Green Schools
Green Flag Raising Ceremony
Our sincere thanks to Melanie Corrigan and Rory O’ Connor for raising our Green Flag for Global Citizenship Energy for us in glorious sunshine today.
Golden Boot Award: Summer term
Well done to the children in 4th Class who win the Golden Boot this term. 83% of these children participated in our Walk on Wednesday programme from Easter to June. In second place was Senior Infants where 73% of children took part and in third place was 1st Class where 70% of children participated. The … Read more
Green Schools’ Global Citizenship Award Ceremony
Our sincere thanks to Órla, Callum, Caitlin and Ms. Hughes for travelling to The Helix on Tuesday to accept our 8th Green Flag. They were also presented with a beautiful trophy and pennant after our school was selected as the Global Citizenship Energy Award Winner for the Eastern Midlands region of Ireland! Well done to … Read more
Evening of Action
Our sincere thanks to all the volunteers, both adults and children, who worked tirelessly and enthusiastically in poor weather conditions during our Evening of Action last night to make our school grounds attractive, educational and child friendly. A special word of thanks to Brian Caulfield who made our beautiful new wooden vegetable plots and to … Read more
Green Flag Eastern Midlands success!
Our school is delighted to announce that its application for an eighth Green Flag (Global Citizenship Energy) has been successful! An Taisce writes, “This current year we have added an extra dimension to the Global Citizenship theme that you have been working on, we have been going through all the applications and we have picked … Read more
Golden Boot Award
Congratulations to the children in First Class who win the Golden Boot this term. 79% of these children participated in our Walk on Wednesday programme from Christmas to Easter. The overall participation rate for the school this term is 69% – 5% of children in the whole school walked to school; 51% parked and strode; … Read more
Global Citizenship-Energy
For the last two years, the children have been working on the Green Schools’ theme of “Global Citizenship-Energy.” The children were asked to write individual Green Codes showing how this theme has been integrated into school life. A shortlist of possible codes was created and following voting, one code has been selected as the school’s … Read more
Golden Boot Award
Well done to the children in Third Class who win the Golden Boot this term. 85% of these children participated in our Walk on Wednesday programme from September to Halloween. In second place was 1st Class where 84% of children took part and in third place was 4th Class where 81% of children participated. The … Read more
Golden Boot Award
Congratulations to the children in Third Class who win the Golden Boot this term. 89% of these children participated in our Walk on Wednesday programme from September to Halloween. The overall participation rate for the school this term is 66% – 5% of children in the whole school walked to school; 45% parked and strode; … Read more