To inform the public of our Litter and Waste Management plans we sent out invitations to our Green Schools Action Day.

This is what it said on the invitation card.

On action day we were very excited as we blew up balloons and put up bunting. When our visitor arrived we show them a slide show with an audio tape telling about our Green School activities. We played music too, a few marches and a few jigs.

Next we gave our visitors a tour of the garden. We showed them the leaf trap where we recycle leaves to make leaf mould.

The pond was one stop on our tour. The pond attracts frogs, which eat slugs in the garden.

The oak wood was another stop on the tour. Visitors admired the fence, which Mike and Peter, our Community workers, had put up. The oak trees are the same age as the school, eighty years old.

The log pile attracts insects, which work for us in the garden. Beetles eat slugs, which eat our plants.

We gave a demonstration on how to mulch a tree with catalogues and mushroom compost .While we were waiting for the visitors we had a chance to read the magazines!

Some past pupils came back from St. Joseph’s Secondary school with their teachers Sr. Agatha and Mrs. Downey.

Pupils came from St Aloysius College with their teacher Ms. Kennedy.

Inside the school we showed our visitors photographs of our Green Schools activities.

Monsignor Mc Carthy N.S. had sent us a chart of their Green Schools activities and we showed it off!

Newspaper reporters came and took a school photograph with our teachers Ms. Broderick and Mrs. Ducke.  

We got our photograph taken with our Green flag. We did not have our flagpole ready but at the Award Ceremony the caretaker of Monsignor McCarthy N.S. had said that he would come and put one up for us. Our two schools belong to St. Joseph’s Community Scheme run by Fas. Our supervisor is Eoin McManus and the scheme has been very successful, as we have had wonderful people working in the scheme over the past few years.

Back again to the Council Chambers!

At the Award Ceremony we were invited to give a presentation of our work. Two of us gave this presentation in a Question and Answer form. We used the Councillors' microphones.

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