This month, the whole school have been doing The Food Dudes Program. The children have been trying a variety of healthy fruit and veg. They are learning about the importance of eating healthy and have done some lovely art in both classrooms. Well done to everyone for their great work on this important topic!
We are currently working on Global Citizenship- Travel theme with the Green Schools. On Tuesday, we had a visit with our Green Schools Coordinator Lorraine and the senior room pupils conducted a ‘Travel Speed Survey’ of cars passing the school. 20 cars were surveyed and in general most were within the 50km speed limit. A couple were over the speed limit!
Junior & Senior infants, and First class had great fun planting daffodil bulbs for the spring yesterday.
The senior room really enjoyed their talk with Madeline from the The Connemara National Park. Big thanks to Madeline for coming out to us.
We were delighted to welcome Madeline from Connemara National Park who came to talk to us yesterday about our native animals. It was so interesting.
Today, our shoeboxes for The Team Hope Shoebox Appeal were collected. We gathered just under 40 shoeboxes, thank you to all who made their shoeboxes or donated to the appeal online.
We decided to use our crops from our garden. We made delicious leek and potato soup yesterday with Ms. Griffin and Martina. The senior room pupils helped make the soup. We have lots of mini chefs in the making. The whole school got a cup of soup. It was so tasty and even better that we had our own home grown vegetables! #greenschool
Today we were busy harvesting our crops from the garden, we are delighted with all that grew! #greenschool
Yesterday we were delighted to welcome Aoife and Damien who work with the Acres Scheme (The Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme). The Acres scheme aims to help farmers improve biodiversity, air and water quality, and climate resilience while also providing income support to up to 50,000 farm families. Aoife and Damien did a very interesting presentation about boglands in Ireland. We then had an opportunity to explore a local bogland beside the school. The children were very engaged and we all really enjoyed the trip. Thanks to Aoife and Damien for visiting us. #greenschool
Congratulations to Keeva on winning an award with the Galway Co. Council for her beautiful art under the theme ‘Keep Co. Galway Litter Free’. She travelled to Galway to The Galway Co. Buildings to receive her award. Well done to all who participated in the competition. #greenschool #keeping Co. Galway litter free
