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Our Green School Page
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Sept.09
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'Grow
your own'
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Chloe, Aoife and Myles in 3rd class
show some Roosters, Golden Wonders and carrots
which they grew in 2nd class with Mr. Cadogan.
Maith sibh a pháistí!!
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March 09
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- The new Green School committee met before midterm and
have made broad plans for raising awareness around the
theme of energy including a Renewable Energy Awareness
Workshop for 5th class on the 12th
March and establishing links with Endesa at the Power station. Class representatives have taken on the
role of OWL’s (Off With Lights!) in their classrooms.
- Mr.Cadogan
has placed information boards around the school
grounds to help the children be aware and learn about
the more common Irish trees present. This is part of
our being Environmentally Friendly ethos.
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Fourth class had a very enjoyable walk in
Kennedy Park woodland identifying and learning about trees
as part of National Tree Week. They also planted some trees. Wedns. March 4th
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Green Flag
Raised Thurs. June 12/08 by Don
Conroy
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Third class had a great time on Wednesday May
21 when Terry Dunne showed us how to weave willows. We are
making a "fedge" which is a fence and a
hedge.
First we planted 32 willows which will grow and then we
started to weave lighter willows in between. We had to
keep the weaving pressed down.
The photos show our progress:
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When finished.
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Click
on the thumbnails to view some of our Recycling Projects
and then click Back on your browser
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Fifth
class made great use of waste material to make these
models
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Second
and third class used plastic wrappers for this Map of
Ireland
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We
keep an up to date diary of our Green School work.
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Check out the
great recycling work done by Junior and Senior Infants
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Scoil Mhuire
Green School Committee holding a meeting on April 29th
2008 to discuss progress on the various projects
undertaken and make further plans.
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The
Green School Project in Scoil Mhuire is a whole school
initiative.
We have a Green
Committee made up of pupils and teachers who
promote and organise different projects to help us
become an environmentally friendly Green School. Mrs.
Kavanagh and her sixth class are very active in
this.
Above you can view some of the use we make
of waste materials in our Visual Arts. We have been
recycling our waste in each class room for a number of
years. There is a small green recycling bin in each class room.
We put fruit waste and pencil toppings in
this. This is emptied in the large compost bin to be used
later. Paper and batteries are also recycled and we also
take part in a used Clothes collection programme.
A School Warden Team patrol the yard daily and collect
any litter present. This work is ongoing.
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Our
three main areas of work are:
Reducing:
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We
have reduced the packaging in lunches as we never have
crisp bags or other plastic wrappers like sweets due to
our Healthy Eating Policy.
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Pupils
bring home any containers or waste in their lunch boxes.
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Pupils
compost at home and at school.
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Reusing:
We
reuse the following in our Visual Arts:
Newspapers, paper bags,magazines, Lino (for clay mats),
fabric and wool, old t-shirts and lots more.
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Recycling:
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We
recycle paper, card, batteries, ink cartridges, and old
mobile phones.
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We
take part in the Ringo Project where we collect
the plastic rings that hold drink cans.
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We
recycle materials in Visual Arts.
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Green
school update: April 8, 2008
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The
Green School Action Week was held from March 3rd -7th.
The school was a hive of activity with each class
involved in litter picking, tidying, weeding, sowing and
recycling materials for Art/Craft activities. There were
visits to a landfill and recycling centres and trips to
JFK Park to construct a 'living igloo'.
The formal application has been reviewed
and their recommendations are now being addressed. This
we hope will lead to our Green School Flag.
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Above
you can view 3 fine examples of the work done in
'Recycling through Art' by fifth class with Gerry Foran
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here to
return to Pupils' Work.
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