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Environment Awareness Project Phase 3  Spring 2000
Programme of work!  
 
I. New extended Vegetable Garden now officially going Organic. 
II. Various methods of Composting and Reduction of Waste to Landfill sites.  
III. Nature Trail now properly defined – 11 main stops.  
IV. Birds – Nesting Boxes and Bird Table 
V. New Glasshouse for seedlings and propagation.  
VI. Garden Craft Work – Wickerwork Screens, Bird Boxes and Bird Table. 
VII. Millennium Tree planting (every pupil planted a tree) March 2000 
VIII. Wildlife Habitat.  
IX. New aspects of existing features. Improving every year!  
     Wildlife Pond  
    Wildlife Meadow  
    Flower Gardens  
    Rockery  
    Indoor Garden 
 X. Integrating I.T. in Environmental Awareness  Click here for picture!
    Portfolios  
    Website
XI.Waste Management Project 
 
New this year! - 23.05.2000 

I. Vegetable garden (change to organic garden officially this year)  
          (Not enough depth for vegetables) 
We thank Cáit Curran for her advice and encouragement! 

       Imported- 1. Topsoil from St. Mary’s G.A.A. field. 
                         2. Compost- Re-cycled cardboard stable manure from teacher's farm. 
                         3. Peat Moss from Mushroom Houses. 
                         4. Turfmould from Bog Roadside
II. Waste Management Project 
           Included some practial work –  
        Composting. 
        Green Bin 
        Wormery 
        Compost Heap
III. Define a Nature Trail  
      10 stages – picture and list in each stage.  
      New flowers, trees etc.
IV. Tree planting for the year 2000  - March 2000 
Birch Grove sown during FÁS gardening course! – June 1999 
Special effort this year! 
One tree sown per pupil. Mostly native trees – Oak, Beech, Ash, etc.  
This year as we have so many trees to sow – 50  
We got a JCB to dig the holes. (By spade at an hour per hole it would take too long). Took 2 hours to prepare the holes. Took 1 day to plant the trees.  
We decided not to stake them as they have good shelter and hopefully when the storms of winter come they will have established themselves.  
April 11, 2000 
Today we got some trees from Coillte through the Athenry ADC but as we have so much to do we decided to just “foot” them in until October when we will have more time to get them in! 

We thank Mr. Conn Walsh, Athenry for very generously presenting us with the trees and we also wish to thank the Athenry Heritage Centre Company’s F.Á.S scheme for up-rooting and delivering them to us. 

V. New Glasshouse       

    What plants were in it? 
      Scallions 
      Lettuce  
      Broad Beans etc. 
      Cabbage 
      Brocolli 
      Lupins 
      Begonia and lots more all hardened and planted out now
VI. Craft Work 
      A. Garden shelter screens (Hazel sticks rods) 
      B. Bird boxes 
      C. Bird table  
      D. Lupin stands 
VII. Wildlife Habitat 
      We continue to provide cover and food for animals, birds, insects etc.   
      Planting more berried plants, shrubs, trees and creepers.  
      Bird boxes. 
      Log pile 
      Compost heaps 
      Designated on wild area leave overgrown etc.
VIII. Wild Life Pond - improvements include 
      Lillies 
      Frogspawn  
      Log pile
IX. Web pages on Environment Awareness. 
Well - what do you think? or Anois cédeir tú le Scoil Carnán? 

X. Intergrading I.T. in Environmental Awareness 
For our project we use the following: 
 

        I. Digital Camera …………………..  Agfa Photowise 
       II. Desk Scan …….………………….. Scanning in pictures 
      III. Microsoft Word …………………. Text 
      IV. Quark Xpress …………………… Making Pages 
       V. Adobe PhotoShop ……………..… Editing photos  
      VI. Optical Character Recognition …Scanning text 
      VII. Zip Drive ……………………..… Storage 
       
End Result: We are delighted -1st. in Co. Galway Again  
Three Years in a Row!

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