Our new Green Schools committee members have been working hard this year ensuring we keep our school as Green as possible and they have been doing a super job. Here are some pictures of the different subcommittees.
Transport squad
The transport squad record, on a daily basis, all the children who try really hard to help the environment by walking, scooting, cycling or car pooling to school.
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| Annalise and Alan from Senior Infants are doing a brilliant job. |
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| Keeva and Enya doing their job and counting all those who walked, scooted, cycled or car pooled. |
Water squad
The water squad save water by making sure no taps in any of the classrooms are dripping or leaking.
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| Jade and Alan make sure none of the First or Second Classes have dripping taps. They do a great job! |
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| Holly and Aidan look after the taps in the infant classes. |
Energy Squad
The energy sqaud make sure we don't waste any energy. They make sure lights and whiteboards are switched off at lunchtimes and classroom doors are closed.
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| Maggie and Daniel from Senior Infants always make sure the doors are closed. Well done! |
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| Jamie and Emily from Second Class are making sure their class always earns their energy token. Great job! |
Biodiversity squad
This is our newest squad and these members(also known as Bio-Ds) increase biodiversity in the school garden by keeping the plants watered and litter to an absolute minimum!
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| Conor and Emily from Senior Infants doing their job! Super work! |
Global Citizenship
We are currently working on our 6th Green Flag for Global Citizenship. We want to become a Global Citizen school and there will be a fun event coming up soon to help us become global citizens! We will keep you updated! :)
We have been doing a lot of work for our fourth Green Flag!
Our Green Schools Education Officer held Travel workshops in the school Jan 20th and 21st on the travel theme. Junior and Senior Infants had workshops about the sights and sounds seen and heard on the way to and from school. They learnt safety rules for walking and cycling.
First and Second classes learnt about active sustainable travel, our carbon footprint and climate change.
In February we carried out a ‘Walkability Audit’. Children from First and Second classes surveyed two Walking Bus routes. They looked for good points and bad points and potential dangers. They drew up a report and submitted it to Fingal County Council.
In February we carried out a ‘Walkability Audit’. Children from First and Second classes surveyed two Walking Bus routes. They looked for good points and bad points and potential dangers. They drew up a report and submitted it to Fingal County Council.
St. Patrick's Junior School along with other students all over Ireland
We are very proud of all our students who save energy, save water and walk, scoot and cycle to school. Well Done!
We have four green flags and we are currently in the process of getting our fifth flag for Biodiversity.
We would like to thank Michael our caretaker and all the parents who have helped in our garden and especially Cate Monaghan. We have a range of plants, herbs and vegetables around our school and soon enough we will have a bug hotel and wormery.
As part of our biodiversity flag we will be having chicks in our school so the children can learn about their life cycle. We are very excited.
Our new green school Committee for Biodiversity are called the “Bio- D’s”.
Go Bio-Ds!!!!!
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