{"id":217,"date":"2015-11-23T21:27:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T21:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clontubrid.ie\/?page_id=217"},"modified":"2022-03-24T20:08:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T20:08:57","slug":"green-school","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/clontubrid.ie\/index.php\/projects\/green-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Green School"},"content":{"rendered":"

Green School Biodiversity Theme.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The theme for Green Schools for the years 2020\/2021 and 2021\/2022 has been biodiversity. The students have been working hard in all the classes over the past few months learning about the plants and animals that live locally in our habitat. We have also been coming up with some ways to increase the biodiversity in our school. The boys and girls have made some ponds, and bug hotels recently which we hope can attract some more native Irish insects, plants and animals to our school grounds.<\/p>\n

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One of the amazing bug hotels the Middle Room designed and created<\/p><\/div>\n

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The construction of our raised bed for growing vegetables was tough work but no match for Filip, Kian, Fionn and Ciar\u00e1n<\/p><\/div>\n


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Planting herbs and wildflowers<\/p><\/div>\n

Green Schools – Travel Theme<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Chiara Hanrahan, the Green-Schools Travel Officer from an An Taisce visited our school last week to speak to our Green-Schools Committee.\u00a0 She discussed the different ways of travelling to school including walking, cycling and travelling by car.\u00a0 She highlighted the benefits of walking and cycling and the negative impact of cars on the health of our environment.\u00a0 Currently 96% of the children travel by car.\u00a0 The Committee decided that we didn\u2019t have a good walking infrastructure and a few suggested the possibility of car pooling.\u00a0 Chiara will visit the school again in April to speak to all classes in more detail about the Green-Schools Programme in relation to travel.<\/p>\n


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Water Flag<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Field Trip to Seskin Lisdowney Ballinaslee Group Water Scheme<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On Thursday 6th of April, the Senior Room and Green School’s Committee went on a field trip to see how the SLB Group Water Scheme works. This group water scheme provides clean running water to many houses and farms in our local community. Rois\u00edn and Joe from the National Federation of Group Water Schemes guided us through the day. Paddy and Angela Mullally came along and explained how they maintain the scheme on a daily basis. We were blown away by what we learned and we have already begun our projects on the local scheme. Thanks to all involved in making the day such a great success, especially to Angela for organising the trip.<\/p>\n

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“Water Wise Workshops”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

As part of our campaign for the\u00a0Water Flag, we invited \u00dana from Global Action Ireland to the school to give three one and a half hour workshops to the classes on Water Conservation. Together, we did an in depth exploration of\u00a0the Water Cycle, the story of a water droplet, water saving tips, water usage in our daily lives and\u00a0in the processing of everyday food and clothing items, and much more. We had a great time with \u00dana and we hope she will visit us again soon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Water Action Day<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

On Friday the 17th of June, we held our ‘Water Action Day’. Thanks to everyone who contributed to our photo exhibition entitled “Water Flowing Through Our Lives”. This display helped us to realise how important water is in our everyday lives and why we must work hard to conserve it.<\/p>\n

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We wrote acrostic WATER poems and recited our Green Code together. Some children even made their own water costumes!<\/p>\n

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Each class presented wonderful water themed projects.<\/p>\n

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The Green School’s committee would like to thank all classes and their teachers for making our “Water Action Day” such a great success. \u00a0A big thanks to all the parents who came along on the day and even took part in some of our experiments!<\/p>\n

Water Butt<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We recently installed a water butt in the yard. We will use the water we harvest to water our plants and to clean around the outside of the school. A big thank you to our caretaker Michael for helping us to install it.<\/p>\n

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Tips to Conserve Water<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We are currently working on our third green flag for water.<\/p>\n

There are lots of ways we can save water at home and at school. Here are a few tips:<\/p>\n