Welcome to our Green School Page for the school year.
2024-2025
Thank you to our new Green School Committee members.
2nd Class Ross and Sean
3rd Class Karim Patricia and Dmitry
4th Alex and Ella
5th Alex and Killian
6th Charlie Khadija and Phil
Here is a photo of our first Green School Committee Meetup for September 2024
Our new theme is Global Citizenship for Energy
Here are some of our achievements since meeting in September:
Actions: 1. In September, nominations and elections for this year's new Green School Committee took place.
2. We re-commenced our reading electricity meter reading via Third class on a rota basis.
3. Fifth class helped design our Eco-Warrior energy badges. These
were given out to our new eco-energy warriors at Assembly.
3. The Globe Air Quality Science Project was completed by some of the 2nd Class children. GLOBE Ireland is a school-based citizen science programme within the Environmental Education Unit of An Taisce. It coordinates nature-based citizen science campaigns in primary and secondary schools. GLOBE Ireland is a division of The GLOBE Programme, a global citizen science initiative sponsored by NASA and supported by NOAA and others.
This was an incredible science project
Science Experiment on Globe Air Quality- Mounting tubes in various
local areas. Removing them a month later in October 24.
We continued our commitment to our Green School initiatives. Several teachers and SNA's attended composting zoom workshops at night via Zoom. The Men's Shed will be working with the Green School Committee and Ms Doyle (SNA) and Ms O Donoghue (MLD) as soon as a date becomes available for them to visit us and help support our green garden plans in our school.
5. The Green School Committee created awareness of energy saving by giving talks at assembly and
at staff meetings via teachers. They also made sure every class had recycle bins and will be making posters for mounting near bins explaining what should and should not be in recycle bins.
6.Children will design posters in November to show what does and does not go into recycle bins.
We will continue to avoid waste by taking home our food waste for composting.
7. .Airtricity have created a Generation Green Community Fund and are giving 5 million euro for school sustainability projects to help reduce energy costs. Our Principal and Board are looking into making application to this fund on behalf of our school.
In November, we hope to do energy surveys with our school members. Some of them are pictured below.
NEWS for you
A free online expert webinar about air quality will be held via Zoom on 28 November, from 1:00–2:00 PM (Irish time). This fun and interactive webinar is a collaboration between GLOBE Ireland and Green Schools Travel. It will feature three experts talking about air pollution and solutions. Michael Garay and Peter Falcon from the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (USA), and Dr Marica Cassarino from University College Cork (Ireland).
Following the expert talks, students will have the opportunity to ask questions, with a chance to win a prize for the best ones!
Don’t miss this amazing opportunity! Register using the link below.
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Here is an Energy Quiz for you to complete. Good luck !
Instructions
Fill in the gaps with the correct word from the list below.
Fossil Sea
Wind turbines Gas Dams
Alternative Solar Wind
Non-renewable Land Hydropower
Coal, oil, peat and ___________________ are called ____________fuels.
They are ____________________ energy sources, because they will run out one day.
They are found deep under the __________ or ________.
Renewable energy sources are often called
_____________________ energy, as they are different from traditional energy supplies.
They include ______________________ power, which comes from the Sun’s rays, _____________________ power, harvested from the air in breezy weather using giant fans called _______________, and water power, also known as ____________________, which uses ____________________.