Category - Science
Meet this year's Green Schools Committee
Green-Schools is Ireland’s leading environmental management and education programme for schools.
Promoting long-term, whole-school action for the environment Green-Schools is a student-led programme with involvement from the wider community. The programme is operated and co-ordinated by the Environmental Education Unit of An Taisce.
Every year our schools sets up a Green-School’s committee with representatives from each class. This committee then is tasked with activities, promoting the Green-Schools ethos and reporting back to their class.
Green-Schools Ireland is based on nine themes, each over a two year cycle.
The themes are:
1. Litter and Waste
2. Energy
3. Water
4. Travel
5. Biodiversity
6. Global Citizenship – Litter and Waste
7. Global Citizenship – Energy
8. Global Citizenship – Marine Environment
9. Global Citizenship – Travel
Here in Ballyconnell, we are delighted to say that we have earned our Green-Schools flag in:
1. Litter and Waste
2. Energy
3. Water
4. Travel
5. Biodiversity
This is down to the hard work of the Green-Schools committee, each student and teacher and the wider community. We are very proud to have such an active Green-School! We are currently working on our next flag ‘Global Citizenship – Litter and Waste’.
4 th class have spent the year in St Mary’s Hall. They thought it a good idea to find out a little bit more about this important building in our parish and to share what they learned with their school mates.
Our Spelling Bee Champion, Sara O’Grady, recently took part in the Carlow County Final of the Eason Spelling Bee. Read her account below.
We were delighted to welcome our former student, Rosealice Byrne, back to Ballyconnell NS last week to regale our 4 th , 5 th and 6 th class students with details of her recent trip to The Gambia in West Africa.
Cathal and Peter tell us all about their day at the Credit Union All-Ireland Final, Ballyconnell NS’s first appearance at the finals since 2001.
Rang a 4 recently did some planting with Ms Ryan. Sarah tells us more!
Rang a 5 student and team member Florrie Cosgrove regales us with the nerves and excitement of Ballyconnell NS’s recent Credit Union Quiz triumph