Green Schools

Marine Environment 2024/25

Our Green Schools Committee 2024/25

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Darragh Bance, Charlie Mulvihill, Rónán Tighe, Senan Burke, Liam Dixon, Shane Tighe, Bobby Dalton, Séadna Burke, Patrick Dolan, Aidan Casey

We are currently working towards getting our 8th Green Flag for Global Citizenship-Marine Environment. This is our second year working on this theme and we hope to apply for our 8th flag next March. This theme gives schools the chance to work on the Green- Schools Programme to positively influence environments worldwide, with a focus on work on local lakes, rivers, oceans and seas.
Due to our proximity to the sea and our school being located in an inland county, we focused on our local rivers and lakes and the effects that pollution has on these waters.

Walk to School Week 7th-11th of October 2024
We held a WOW Day on Wednesday 9th October. Our Green Schools Committee investigated the amount of CO2 that could be saved by walking short distances in the mornings, when coming to school.
Did you know that you can save 6 balloons of CO2 by walking 500 meters instead of using the car?
On WOW Day we saved 134 balloons of CO2 in total.

We have also been selected as one of the five winners in this year's Walk to School Week Draw, receiving a prize of €100!

3rd and 4th Class were the winners of this years Golden Boot Award

Michael Bell called to us and thought us all about Marine Biodiversity

Goal Jersey Day

We celebrated GOAL Jersey Day on the 11th of October 2024. All proceeds went directly to support GOAL's work with communities facing crisis and poverty.

Local Water Pollution Investigation

On the 14th of November Mrs Burke, Ms Bushell, Liam, Charlie and I went visiting our local lakes where we took samples of their water. We first visited Drinaun lake. Our first opinion was that the water was very clear. The second lake we visited was Kilglass Lake .This was Ms Bushells local lake. We taught it was a bit dirty in comparison to Drinaun . The final lake we visited was Cloonfin Lough. It was more or less the same to Drinaun or so we thought . After that we went back to school and gathered the rest of the committee .They helped us to investigate the samples. To our surprise, Cloonfin Lough was the purest Lake, Drinaun was second and Killglass Lake finished last as we predicted. Our Green schools Lake investigation was very interesting and we all learned a lot.

By Chairperson: Senan Burke

Marine Environment Poster Competition Finalists!

Collette and Karina from Uisce Éireann presented a Wonderful presentation on our local water supply and how we can prevent water pollution! #ConserveWater

Climate Action Week 14th-18th October 2024

We celebrated Climate Action Week with a Green Code Competition, and a Marine Art Lesson. We had a school discussion about Climate Change. After lunch, we did a Climate Change art lesson, focusing on the topic of marine litter. We incorporated this art with our Marine Environment slogan competition.
The winners were as follows:
Poster Competition Winner: Zac Rogers
Slogan Competition Winner: Tomás Kelly

Our Green Code- Keep the Sea Plastic Free!

Roscommon County Council Christmas Decoration/ Christmas Jumper Competition

Our boys had great fun creating their own recyclable decoration/Christmas Jumper for the Roscommon County Council Annual Competition. This year a Christmas jumper made from reusable materials was our winner. Congratulation Ryan!

Roscommon County Council Christmas Decoration/Jumper Competition Winner!!

School and Garden Spring Clean

Our school came out in force and got their gloves on to tidy and clean up our school garden and yard! We are relocating our wild patch and getting ready to start planting for Incredible Edibles! We collected worms for our new Wormery! We had lots of fun digging and exploring!

School debate……
Should We Use Re-usable Water Bottles in School?

Our Local River Clean-Up

Our Green Schools Committee visited our local river today for a local river clean-up! Yesterday we learned about the need to keep our local rivers clean by preventing litter and pollution.