On Thursday April 23rd 2026, we had a visit from Lorraine Flanagan who is a Green-Schools travel officer. Lorraine spoke to the Green-School Committee about air quality and speed on our roads. We did an interesting experiment where we measured the CO2 in the classroom...

Children from 4th Class recently participated in a fantastic module of work presented by Mona McCrea, a marine biologist, from Seashore Kids Ireland. Mona came to visit us to deliver two workshops and our theme was Squid Investigation. We were lucky enough to get the...

National Tree Week was held from from March 8th – 15th. We received a mixed bundle of native saplings from The Tree Council of Ireland and Coillte which our Committee very kindly helped to plant! We added them to our native tree plantation beside Cluain na n-Óg.

Wicklow County Council held its annual Sustainable Development Awards, Tidy Main Streets & Tidy Estates Awards ceremony, on Saturday, 7th March in The Brockagh Centre, Laragh. Tidy Towns groups, Residents' Associations, schools, local & farming champions,...

We were delighted to participate in The Big Travel Challenge in February as part of our theme Global Citizenship: Travel. Each day, our wonderful Green-Schools Committee collected ‘scores on the doors’ from each class. We kept a record of the number of children...

We have been busy collecting data on how the pupils in our school travel to school every day. We will repeat our survey next year to compare the numbers. Well done to everyone for making a great effort to come to school in a green way!

Our school is busy working on the Big Travel Challenge! We have all been making a great effort to come to school in a green way and travel sustainably, although the weather has not been on our side! Take a look at our school plan for the fortnight to see what other...

We celebrated Walk to School Week from October 13th-17th 2025. The Green-Schools Committee has been very busy this month organising Walk to School Week! Every morning we enjoyed music in the playground to start the day off on a happy note. There was a fun art...

On Thursday June 20th, the Green-Schools Committee organised and carried out a Beach Clean as part of our work towards achieving our next Green Flag; Global Citizenship: Marine Environment.  We collected our materials and headed off to the North Beach and...