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...
Recently, Ms.Kelly’s and Mrs.Cooke’s 5th classes were invited to participate in a Local Authority Waters’ Citizen Science workshop with Donal O’Keeffe. They examined local water samples for insect life which would determine whether the river is polluted or not....
St. Joseph’s N.S. was recently offered a biodiversity workshop for one class with Biodiversity in Schools. The workshop was kindly funded by Glenveagh Homes and Ms. New’s 2nd Class was the lucky winner of the draw carried out by the Green Schools Committee. Eight...
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...
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...
