We celebrated Green-Schools Marine Week in our school from April 15th-April 19th.  We had so much fun engaging in marine art lessons, webinars and project work on our theme.  Throughout the week, our Green-Schools Committee made announcements to the whole...

National Tree Week 2024 took place from Sunday 3rd March to Sunday 10th March, with the theme ‘Planting Trees for A Greener Future'.To celebrate National Tree Week, our Green-Schools Committee planted eight tree saplings which were kindly donated to us by Wicklow...

Take a look at our amazing project work! Every class, from Junior Infants all the way up to 6th Class, now has a Green-Schools Class Mascot. We researched information and created images of native Irish sea creatures. Having a mascot has made us realise how...

Ms. Cullen's class mascot is the blue whale. Her class had a whale of a time measuring out 30 metres. Male blue whales can grow to an amazing length of 30 metres. All of the children in Ms. Cullen's class didn’t even equal to the length of one blue whale! The children...

Check out our new Green Code! We asked the school community to help us come up with a new Green Code that links in with the work we are doing on the Marine Environment. Thanks to Ms. Furlong and the Green School Committee for helping to choose the winning entry which...

Green Schools News Green Schools News 2023 St. Joseph’s NS has been involved in the Green Schools Initiative since 1998. To date, we have been awarded nine Green Flags covering the themes of: Litter and Waste Energy Water Travel Green Home Biodiversity Global...