The Big Travel Challenge

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...

Walk to School Week 🚶‍➡️

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...

Marine Animal Door Displays

Beach Clean

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...

Citizen Science Workshop in 5th Class

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....

Biodiversity Workshop in 2nd Class

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...