National Tree Week 2024🌲🌳
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...
Green-Schools Class Mascots
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...
The World’s Toughest Row 🚣♀️🚣♀️ Eamon and Andrew Breen
Eamon Breen came to visit our school to talk to the boys and girls about their experience when completing The World's Toughest Row. Eamon told the kids about everything from the planning stages to stepping back on land after a gruelling six weeks rowing 3,000 miles...
First Class Class Mascot 🐋🐳
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...
Green Code
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...
Litter picking in Mrs.Cooke’s Class!
Green School Competition Winners !!
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...
An Taisce Green Schools Project
St. Joseph's NS was one of 25 schools chosen by An Taisce to take part in a Green Schools Project in 2023.This project involved our thoughts and hopes for what our environment will look like in 25 years. Each school was asked to express their hopes and vision in the...
5th & 6th Classes plant spring bulbs
Our Fifth and Sixth classes were spotted out and about in the school garden planting spring bulbs, we can't wait to see the new bulbs budding in Springtime! OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL...